The Guidance Note covers the process of
instituting, designing and carrying out a cash transfer
program. At the policy level, the sectoral strategic vision
is embodied...
Type: ReportReport#: 189195Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Human Capital Review aims to
provide analytical foundations in the support of policies
that improve human capital outcomes for the following four
UMI countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 188076Date: March 5, 2024Author:
Yanez Pagans,Monica ;
Isik-Dikmelik,Aylin
This report explores the results of the
most recent round of PISA for countries in Latin America and
the Caribbean (LAC). It highlights the results for the
region, differences...
Type: ReportReport#: 188068Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper uses data from
2003–19 on 2.47 million test takers of a national
high stakes university entrance exam in Ethiopia to study
the impacts of temperature...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10714Date: March 5, 2024Author:
Srivastava,Bhavya ;
Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere ;
Behrer,Arnold Patrick
This report focuses on the Regional
Gender Action Plan (RGAP) for Eastern and Southern Africa
(AFE) for the year FY2024-2028. RGAP supports implementation
across the...
Type: ReportReport#: 188069Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Countries worldwide are implementing
GovTech reforms to modernize the public sector and achieve
better performance while responding to citizens’
needs. At its...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10716Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Environmental degradation is the largest
public health challenge of the century and is likely to be
exacerbated by climate change. This study undertakes a
comprehensive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10715Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI)
health survey in Moldova serves as a vital tool forassessing
and benchmarking the performance of health service delivery.
Its primary...
Type: ReportReport#: 188075Date: March 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
What can be learned from the governance
trajectory of African countries since the beginning of the
21st century? What is the quality of governance on the
African continent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10713Date: March 4, 2024Author:
Isser,Deborah Hannah ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Watts,Michael John ;
Zovighian,Diane
In the Gambia, very few children start
school with a high level of English, and nearly all speak a
variety of national languages. To support the development of
a long-term...
In major parts of the world, irrigation
development has reached its limits in terms of land and
water resources, as evident in the alarming overexploitation
of groundwater...
Type: ReportReport#: 188739Date: March 2, 2024Author:
Plusquellec, Hervé
This brief discusses results from the
survey of the youth population in Uganda using results from
the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS). UHFPS has
been collected...
Type: BriefReport#: 188472Date: March 2, 2024Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cochinard,Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor,John ;
Audrey Kemigisha ;
Andrew Mupere ;
Ponzini,Giulia
The March 2024 update to the Poverty and
Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the
data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular,
some...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 188600Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Ensuring a safe environment for children
to learn is more than a mission for the WorldBank. It is an
urgent imperative. In large part, the success of our FCV
Strategy...
Type: BriefReport#: 189389Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Beginning in 2012, Ethiopia’s
first ever women-entrepreneur focused line of credit was
established through the Women Entrepreneurship Development
Project (WEDP)....
Type: BriefReport#: 188714Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Buehren,Niklas ;
Papineni,Sreelakshmi ;
Rawlins,Marlon Rolston ;
Weis,Toni Johannes
From 2001 to 2015, economic growth in
Cabo Verde was accompanied by a reduction in poverty, which
fell from 56.8 percent to 35.2 percent. The latest official
annual...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 194147Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cash transfers in general appear to be
more effective than in-kind transfers or vouchers at
improving a range of outcomes, including decreasing monetary
poverty, improving...
Type: BriefReport#: 191207Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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