These remarks were delivered by Jim Yong
Kim, President of the World Bank Group, at the 2016
Fragility Forum in Washington, DC on March 1, 2016. He
discusses the strengthened...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129875Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This issue includes the following
headings: Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World; A
New Global Count of the Extreme Poor; Economic Effects of
the Syrian War...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 103568Date: February 25, 2016
This paper contributes to the economic
analysis of illicit activities and money laundering. First,
it presents a theoretical model of long-run growth that
explicitly...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7578Date: February 25, 2016Author:
Villa,Edgar ;
Misas,Martha A. ;
Loayza,Norman V.
This paper examines the short-term
impacts of a labor-intensive public works program on
household welfare and economic prospects. Using a
community-level randomized...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7580Date: February 25, 2016Author:
Rosas Raffo,Nina ;
Sabarwal,Shwetlena
In Latin America, labor markets have
been the main channel through which growth has reduced
poverty, with higher labor income accounting for 49 percent
of the reduction...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7562Date: February 9, 2016Author:
Scot,Thiago ;
Rodella,Aude-Sophie
What will technological change deliver
in the coming decades? Higher unemployment? Or a wealth of
new job opportunities? And what can one do to determine the
outcome?...
This paper introduces a novel top-down
approach to geospatially identify and distinguish areas of
mixed use from predominantly residential areas within urban
agglomerations....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 111072Date: February 4, 2016Author:
Aubrecht,Christoph ;
León Torres,José Antonio
This paper reviews current practices and
common challenges in the measurement of the causes,
functioning, and consequences of violent conflict at the
micro-level. The...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 120316Date: February 1, 2016Author:
Bruck,Tilman ;
Justino,Patricia ;
Verwimp,Philip ;
Avdeenko,Alexandra ;
Tedesco,Andrew Anthony
Afghanistan is a deeply fragile and
conflict affected state. It has been in almost constant
conflict for over 35 years since the Soviet invasion of
1979. Today the country...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 103421Date: February 1, 2016
Natural disasters can cause unthinkable
tolls and continue to disproportionately affect the poorest
and most vulnerable. The number of climate related disasters
alone...
When delegates from Poland signed the
Articles of Agreement on June 27th 1986, Poland officially
became the 150th member country of the International Bank
for Reconstruction...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 104709Date: January 1, 2016
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable
countries in the world facing the potential impacts of
climate change. To address this challenge, Bangladesh
launched its first...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 116486Date: January 1, 2016
In January 2015, Malawi experienced some
of the most devastating flooding in its history. In the
aftermath, the Government of Malawi conducted a
post-disaster needs...
Type: BriefReport#: 103261Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
The ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine
has resulted in instability and insecurity, heavily
impacting the Ukrainian people with devastating social and
economic consequences....
Type: BriefReport#: 103268Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
Located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and
at the center of the Pacific cyclone belt, Vanuatu is
exposed to one of the world’s highest levels of natural
disaster risk....
Type: BriefReport#: 103269Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
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