This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
emphasized that what is to be done, and what will I do? At
the World Bank...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101925Date: March 7, 2014Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period March to May
2014, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings, for...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 85653Date: March 3, 2014
The key messages in this brief are as
follows: 1) The direct link between Applied Sciences,
Engineering and Technology (ASET) and economic growth is
widely accepted....
Using a global panel on research and
development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents
that on average poor countries do far less R&D than rich
as a share of GDP....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6811Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Goni, Edwin ;
Maloney, William F.
This paper offers the first evidence on
the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth
theory—the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and
international...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6814Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Valencia Caicedo,Felipe ;
Maloney,William F.
The key messages in this brief are as
follows: 1) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM)-related research output and impact are related to a
regions...
This is the March 2014 edition of The
World Bank in India newsletter. Titles included in this
edition include the following: Over a million households in
Punjab are...
Section one of the papers provides a
brief overview of the relationship between the Sahel region
of Africa and climate variability trends and predictions,
ultimately...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 102592Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Alda Sanchez,Erik
This green growth country assessment for
Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) Macedonia aims to define the
outlines of a green growth path and the initial steps along
that...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: ACS8179Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Jorgensen, Erika ;
Shkaratan, Maria
This approach is adaptive social
protection and it draws on and integrates the tools and
techniques of social protection, climate change adaptation,
and disaster risk...
This paper formalizes the design of
experiments intended specifically to study spillover
effects. By first randomizing the intensity of treatment
within clusters and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6824Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Baird, Sarah ;
Bohren, J. Aislinn ;
McIntosh, Craig ;
Ozler, Berk
"The Impact of Microcredit on the
Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David
Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2014) (henceforth RM) is the
most recent of a...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6801Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Pitt, Mark M.
This paper examines the association
between the intensity, timing, and persistence of personal
history of mobility on individual support for
redistribution. Using both...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6803Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Dabalen,Andrew L. ;
Parinduri, Rasyad ;
Paul,Saumik
Morocco is the largest energy importer
in the MENA region, but it is also seeking to reduce its
dependence on imported fossil fuels, as well as its carbon
footprint....
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