Infrastructure plays an important role
in the economic and social development of any country.
Access to reliable, high-quality, efficient and affordable
infrastructure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 121466Date: October 3, 2017Author:
Marcelo Gordillo,Darwin ;
House,Ruth Schuyler ;
Lotti,Melania ;
Skorzus,Roman Constantin ;
Raina,Aditi ;
Saha,Deblina ;
Zemlytska,Iuliia
The development objective of the First
National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project for India is to
reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities in Andhra
Pradesh and...
Type: CorrespondenceReport#: RES27861Date: October 3, 2017Author:
Dixon,Annette
Climate change poses a huge threat to
the agricultural sector and food security: about 75 percent
of the world’s poor men and women live in rural areas and
depend on...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122208Date: October 2, 2017Author:
Sadler,Marc Peter ;
Karttunen,Anna Kaisa ;
Sisto, Ilaria ;
Kononen,Minna Maria ;
Taivalmaa,Sanna Liisa
This Report offers a critical
interpretation of the idea of ‘minimum core obligations’
associated with the right to health in international,
regional and domestic law...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122561Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Tasioulas,John
The doctrine of the ‘minimum core’ (MCD)
has in recent decades achieved prominence within
international human rights law (IHRL) and practice. This
enhanced profile is...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122563Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Tasioulas,John
The Second Phase of Scaling Up Nutrition
Investments Annual Report presents the continuation of the
second phase of a three-phased program between the
Government of...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 123020Date: October 1, 2017
Citizen engagement is essential for all
five business lines of the Water Global Practice. To achieve
a water-secure world for all, it is important to make
service providers...
Type: BriefReport#: 122222Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Kodama,Toyoko ;
Galeza,Kamila Anna
More than a billion tons of food are
lost annually across global food supply chains. Spillage,
spoilage, insects, and rodents cause this post-harvest loss.
Addressing...
Type: BriefReport#: 121269Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Mills,Anthony Jan
This engagement note provides education
sector policymakers with an overview of the status of
education across the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
countries and offers...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122881Date: October 1, 2017Author:
El-Kogali,Safaa El Tayeb ;
Quota,Manal Bakur N ;
Sekkarie,Samia
The book aims at assessing the overall
potential of the Ocean Economy (OE) to contribute to
Mauritius' development, at identifying key sectoral and
cross-cutting challenges...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 120633Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Howells,Mark Idwal ;
Strzepek, Kenneth M. ;
Emanuel,Kerry Andrew ;
Kelleher,Kieran ;
Willwerth, Jacqueline ;
Kelly Ph.D, Tim ;
Neumann, James E. ;
Alfstad, Thomas ;
Farrell,Sheila ;
Beejadhur,Yuvan A. ;
Smith, Joanna
Sri Lanka's economic performance
remained broadly satisfactory in 2016 and early 2017
although recent floods and droughts adversely affected
macroeconomic performance....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 120478Date: October 1, 2017
This note provides a rapid summary of a
first set of eight notes on girls’ education and child
marriage in West and Central Africa. The eight notes were
prepared ahead...
Type: BriefReport#: 122077Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Yedan,Ali ;
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Male,Chata
Governments and development partners
around the world share a vision of financial inclusion where
all individuals and businesses have access to, and the
ability to use,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122090Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Spaven,Patrick John ;
Nielsen,Karina Broens
Minimum core is a concept introduced by
the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(“Committee”) with the aim of ensuring “the satisfaction of,
at the very...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122564Date: October 1, 2017
Never before has the goal of ending
extreme poverty been so close. Yet we live in times of great
uncertainty and upheaval. The challenges our world faces are
daunting...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 120670Date: October 1, 2017
Myanmar’s macroeconomic environment
remains stable, though economic growth is estimated to have
slowed to 5.9 percent in 2016-17 compared to 7 percent in
2015-16, weighed...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122691Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Nair,Arvind ;
Kessler, Martin ;
Mishra,Deepak K. ;
Zin,May Thet ;
Mohib,Saiyed Shabih Ali ;
Rab,Habib Nasser
The authors study the role of
traditional norms in land allocation and human capital
investment. The authors exploit a policy experiment in Ghana
that increased the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 122570Date: October 1, 2017Author:
La Ferrara,Eliana ;
Milazzo,Annamaria
Child marriage is defined as a formal or
informal union before the age of 18. Child brides are at
greater risk of experiencing a range of poor health
outcomes, having...
Type: BriefReport#: 122074Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Wise,Lisa ;
Tavares,Paula Magarinos Torres ;
Nestour,Alex Le ;
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Fiala,Oliver
The study in Togo reveals that
psychology-based entrepreneur training (personal initiative
training) increases firm profits by 30 percent, compared to
a statistically...
Type: BriefReport#: 120303Date: October 1, 2017Author:
Coleman,Rachel Dawn ;
Goldstein,Markus P.
Climate change presents a clear,
near-term threat to efforts to end poverty. Poor people and
poor countries are vulnerable to a wide range of
climate-related shocks...
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