The Country Opinion Survey in Chile
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding
how stakeholders in Chile perceive the WBG. It provides the
WBG with...
Type: ReportReport#: 190556Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the dawn of the new millennium, Japan
found itself lagging in the global race to embrace
information and communication technology (ICT). In 2000, its
internet penetration...
What drives citizen’s trust
in state institutions? There are longstanding debates on the
pathways towards institutional trust: is trust driven by
citizen’s...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10783Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Zovighian,Diane ;
Cloutier,Mathieu ;
Bove,Abel Paul Basile
The document collection discusses the
vulnerability of a country to climate change, highlighting
the human, social, and economic costs associated with
extreme weather...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192416Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Reform of formal technical and
vocational education and training (TVET) is urgently needed
in most low- and middle-income countries. Demographic
trends, coupled with...
Type: ReportReport#: 183938Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Levin,Victoria ;
Santos,Indhira Vanessa ;
Weber,Michael ;
Iqbal,Syedah Aroob ;
Ashwani Aggarwal ;
Comyn,Paul John ;
Katayama,Hiromichi ;
Hoftijzer,Margo A.
As the conduit between power demand and
supply, the utilities that operate the world's
transmission and distribution networks will be the critical
link in the energy...
Type: ReportReport#: 190500Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper provides one of the first
estimates of elasticities of substitution across suppliers
within the same product. This paper estimates these
elasticities using...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10782Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Fujiy,Brian C. ;
Ghose,Devaki ;
Khanna,Gaurav
The Country Opinion Survey in Chile
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding
how stakeholders in Chile perceive the WBG. It provides the
WBG with...
Type: ReportReport#: 190556Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The document collection focuses on the
measurement of monetary poverty, with a specific emphasis on
welfare measurement, consumption aggregate, price
adjustments, household...
A randomized controlled trial in
Pakistan tests whether one-on-one engagement with community
religious leaders can encourage them to instruct congregants
to follow government...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 192812Date: May 21, 2024Author:
Kate Vyborny
This paper provides an assessment of the
fiscal and social impacts resulting from the fuel price
adjustments undertaken in 2022. The note lays out policy
options and...
The document collection discusses the
virtual decision review meeting held to assess the Emergency
Preparedness and Response Diagnostic and Investment Plan
under the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 190634Date: May 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic zone programs are generally
pursued to improve firms' performance within discrete
areas by removing the constraints firms face. Whether or not
they succeed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10781Date: May 21, 2024
Algeria’s growth was robust
in 2023, and inflation started to decelerate. GDP growth
accelerated to 4.1 percent, supported by hydrocarbon sector
growth, as natural...
This paper studies the consequences of a
U.S. cabotage law for Puerto Rico (PR). Data on ship
arrivals in PR show that the fleet of U.S. vessels that call
there lacks...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10780Date: May 21, 2024Author:
Hillberry,Russell Henry ;
Cases Jimenez,Manuel Felipe
The objective of RETRADE is to establish
a robust and scalable platform that assists countries in the
Eastern and Southern Africa region in scaling up
cross-border electricity...
Type: ReportReport#: 190897Date: May 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
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