The primary purpose of this Toolkit is
to provide a resource for researchers, evaluators, and
program personnel from various disciplines interested in
assessing early...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122048Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Prado,Elizabeth Leah ;
Raikes,Abbie ;
Kariger,Patricia Karol ;
Fernald,Lia C. H.
The small- and medium-enterprise (SME)
sector in Lebanon is a powerful economic force, accounting
for 97 percent of all enterprises and employing more than
half of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 121527Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Murti,Bhattiprolu Balachandra
This paper presents the findings of an
impact evaluation designed to study an educational
initiative called Evoke: Youth as Agents of Change in the
Colombian Peace Process....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 122451Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Freeman,Barbara ;
Hawkins,Robert J.
Since 2011 doing business, through its
getting electricity indicator set, has recorded the time,
cost, and number of procedures required for a small to
medium-size business...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122197Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Arlet,Jean Nicolas ;
Parvanyan,Tigran ;
Srinivasan,Jayashree ;
Davoine,Diane ;
Tjong,Erick
Climate variability and resource
scarcity pose an increasing threat to the growth and
competitiveness of industry, and nowhere is this issue more
significant than in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 111796Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Doble,Mike ;
Woolley,Richard ;
Nuttall,Chris ;
Tripathi,Amit
Water has always been a source of risks
and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet
rapidly changing socioeconomic, political, and environmental
conditions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 120105Date: January 1, 2017
In Turkey, only 16 percent of small and
medium enterprises are majority-owned by women.1 If women
participated fully in the labor force, the Turkish Gross
National Income...
A growing number of governments are
interested in partnering with the private sector to provide
public infrastructure assets and services. The PPP Reference
Guide aims...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122038Date: January 1, 2017
Occupational gender segregation is a
worldwide phenomenon that is frequently cited as one of the
contributing factors to the gender gap in earnings. Research
by the...
Type: BriefReport#: 116980Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Buehren,Niklas ;
Salisbury,Taylor Van
The effects of climate change – from
changing precipitation patterns to rising seas – will
exacerbate the coastal erosion already affecting West
Africa, increasing the...
One-third of West Africa's
population lives in coastal zones where they are vulnerable
to the high risks of climate change impacts and natural
hazards. Unplanned settlement...
A gender-inclusive approach to
sanitation through Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is
needed to ensure that the benefits of sanitation and hygiene
are truly universal....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113129Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Naughton,Meleesa Hannah Marie ;
Pena Pereira Weiss,Lilian ;
Vargas-Ramirez,Miguel
Over the past century countries have
been able tomeet ever-higher food demands thanks to the
availability of cheap fossil fuels in agriculture. But there
is reason to...
In the last five years, the number of
voices calling for stronger international action on climate
change and health has increased, as has the scale and depth
of activities....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113571Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Kleiman,Gary ;
Bouley,Timothy ;
Meiro-Lorenzo,Montserrat ;
Wang,Hui
Climate change is damaging human health
now and is projected to have a greater impact in the future.
Low- and middle-income countries are seeing the worst
effects as...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113572Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Bouley,Timothy ;
Roschnik, Sonia ;
Karliner, Josh ;
Wilburn, Susan ;
Slotterback, Scott ;
Guenther, Robin ;
Orris, Peter ;
Kasper, Toby ;
Platzer,Barbara Louise ;
Torgeson, Kris
Globally, more than a billion people,
approximately 15 percent of the world’s population, or one
in seven persons, have disabilities. Of those, 80 percent
live in developing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117306Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mcclain-Nhlapo,Charlotte Vuyiswa ;
Raja,Deepti Samant ;
Sivonen,Lauri Heikki Antero ;
Tas,Emcet Oktay ;
Widyastuty,Dea
South Asia is home to three of the top
five countries in terms of vulnerability to climate change
globally.It thus urgently needs climate investment to
enhance resilience...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122321Date: January 1, 2017
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