Financial sector strategies enable
financial policy makers and stakeholders to take a holistic
view of the financial development needs in their country and
formulate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8315Date: January 23, 2018Author:
Melecky,Martin ;
Podpiera,Anca Maria
This paper uses a randomized community
development program in rural Pakistan to assess the impact
of citizen engagement on the quality of public health
services. The...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8313Date: January 23, 2018Author:
Gine,Xavier ;
Khalid,Salma ;
Mansuri,Ghazala
This study uses text mining techniques
on almost 900 presidential
"state-of-the-union"--type speeches from 10 Latin
American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8311Date: January 22, 2018Author:
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
Eizmendi,Axel ;
Reyes,German Jeremias
This note summarizes some of the key
contributions in the macro- and micro- economic literature
on the pathways linking human capital and income growth.
Rather than...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8309Date: January 19, 2018Author:
Flabbi,Luca ;
Gatti,Roberta V.
Getting to Gender Equality in
Electricity Infrastructure: Lessons from Electricity
Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Projects examines
the social and gender...
Although there is wide recognition of
the negative consequences of policy volatility for
countries' long-term economic growth, there is limited
empirical work on this...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8310Date: January 19, 2018Author:
Eizmendi,Axel ;
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar
During IDA17, the World Bank Group (WBG)
actively explored options to enhance its ability to respond
to the ambition of the 2030 agenda for sustainable
development....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 122855Date: January 18, 2018
This paper assesses the effects of
selected structural reforms on labor productivity growth for
37 developing countries over 2006-14. It combines newly
constructed reform...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8308Date: January 18, 2018Author:
Kouame,Wilfried Anicet Kouakou ;
Tapsoba,Sampawende J.-A.
Migration, internal and external,
continues to be a dominant livelihood strategy for
households in Lesotho, with almost half (43 percent) of
households reporting at...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8307Date: January 18, 2018Author:
Chakravarty,Shubha ;
Botea,Ioana Alexandra ;
Compernolle,Nell
Guddu Barrage, located in the district
of Kashmore in the north of Sindh Province of Pakistan, was
constructed during 1957-1962 and has shown deterioration in
the superstructure,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 122903Date: January 18, 2018
This research note investigates the
impact of phone reminders on response rates in the context
of a web-based survey in an international organization, the
World Bank....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8305Date: January 17, 2018Author:
Smets,Lode
Transport corridors can generate wider
economic benefits and costs through their effects on a
potentially diverse set of development outcomes, such as
economic growth,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8302Date: January 17, 2018Author:
Roberts,Mark ;
Melecky,Martin ;
Bougna Lonla,Theophile ;
Xu,Yan
Marital shocks are exceedingly common
for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates
whether women who have suffered a marital rupture experience
lower welfare...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8306Date: January 17, 2018Author:
Van De Walle,Dominique ;
Djuikom,Marie Albertine
This paper sets out initial results from
a new modeling exercise for Defined Contribution (DC)
pensions. It develops a package called penCalc based on the
open source...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8304Date: January 17, 2018Author:
Price,William Joseph ;
Sane,Renuka Vidyadhar
One-fifth of the world's population
lives in countries affected by fragility, violence and
conflict, impeding long-term economic growth. However,
little is known about...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8301Date: January 17, 2018Author:
Herskowitz,Sylvan Rene ;
Scherer,Thomas ;
Toomet,Ott ;
Ghani,Tarek F. ;
Blumenstock,Joshua Evan ;
Kapstein,Ethan Barnaby
The objective of the audit was to
provide assurance on the implementation of the Offshore
Financial Center (OFC) Policy to manage tax evasion and
related reputational...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 123157Date: January 16, 2018
This is the first and final progress
report to the Board of Executive Directors (the Board) on
implementation of the Management Action Plan (MAP) in
response to the...
In Madagascar, climate change is already
impacting health, and this damage will continue. Without
adequate investment in health sector resilience, recent
development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 121945Date: January 12, 2018Author:
Bouley,Timothy ;
Midgley,Amelia ;
Shumake-Guillemot, Joy ;
Golden,Christopher De Weir ;
Ebi,Kristie Lee
In 2009, the G20 embarked on an
ambitious financial regulatory reform agenda to address the
fault lines that caused the global financial crisis.
Although the global...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8300Date: January 11, 2018Author:
Briault,Clive ;
Feyen,Erik H.B. ;
Skamnelos,Ilias ;
Gonzalez Del Mazo,Ines ;
Kwok Chung Yee,Brian ;
Rademacher,Jan
The Ganga river basin is the most
populated river basin in the world and is home to half the
population of India including two-thirds of the nation’s
poor people. The...
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