The climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of
agricultural development and climate responsiveness. It aims
to achieve...
Saint Lucia is highly exposed to natural
disasters of varying intensity and severity, including
hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods
and landslides....
This first note in the series on the
cost of gender inequality focuses on the losses in national
wealth due to gender inequality in earnings. There is a
substantial...
Type: BriefReport#: 126579Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Leroy De La Briere,Benedicte
This study seeks to estimate the effects
of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings
account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly
selected...
Type: BriefReport#: 126040Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Buri,Sinja ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Giné, Xavier ;
Harten,Sven ;
Heitmann,Soren
This brief provides an overview of the
most relevant programs promoting social accountability in
Indonesia's primary health sector. It focuses on
maternal and child...
Type: BriefReport#: 131476Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Bennouna, Cyril ;
Kusumaningrum,Santi ;
Siagian,Clara Tania Repita ;
Laugen, Chris
Small and medium-sized enterprises in
developing countries tend to struggle with growth compared
to their counterparts in more developed economies. Attempts
to understand...
Type: BriefReport#: 126697Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Karlan,Dean S. ;
Schoar,Antoinette
Sand mining is just what it sounds like,
and has been theessential ingredient for the building of
cities since civilizationbegan. Workers dig quarries, or
take sand...
MENA economies have been experiencing
moderate to high growth in GDP with stagnant growth in
employment, a phenomenon of "jobless growth" since
the 1970s. This dire...
Type: BriefReport#: 126181Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
Like most emerging markets, Peru suffers
from low banking penetration and faces challengesto
providing financial services. Beginning in 2015, a strategy
called Modelo...
Type: BriefReport#: 128786Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Del Carpio Ponce,Paola Elvira
Lack of financial resources prompted
many LSG to seek effective ways to mobilize and utilize
local resources to improve living standards of the
population, however,...
Ensuring equitable access to jobs and
reducing gender gaps is essential for putting MENA countries
on the path to inclusive growth and stability. Giving women
and girls...
Type: BriefReport#: 126361Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Elzir,Angela ;
Sayed,Haneen Ismail
Road crashes are among the most
significant public health issues of the century; they
account for 97 percent of deaths across all modes of
transport. The latest WHO...
Type: BriefReport#: 130018Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Bose,Dipan ;
Marquez,Patricio V. ;
Job,Raymond Franklin Soames
Belize is highly exposed to natural
disasters of varying intensity and severity, including
hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods
and landslides....
During the last two decades, economies
in East Asia and Pacific have been integrating
internationally through trade and financial investments. One
trend is puzzling....
Type: BriefReport#: 126031Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Llovet Montanes,Ruth ;
Schmukler,Sergio L.
West Africa has enormous potential,
greater than that of any other African region, fornatural
gas and oil exports. Net natural gas exports from West
Africa are envisagedto...
The Jakarta Composite Index fell 2.1
percent over the week, in line with most markets in the
region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar and
Japanese Yen by...
Deep-rooted biases can inhibit our best
intentions. Research has found that we all have unconscious
biases and preferences related to gender, race, sexual
orientation,...
This research shows that teacher and
administration absences can negatively affect students’
reading and math abilities.Working with the Peruvian
Ministry of Education...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for April 23, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: The government is preparing a regulation on
incentive packages...
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