Kenya is one of the countries covered in the World Bank Household Survey of Migrants in Africa. The overall objective of the survey was to help improve the understanding of the impact of migration and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193167Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
Jurisdictions that rely on emissions trading to control emissions often utilize other environmental or energy policies as well, including policies to support renewable energy and reduce energy consumption....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10872Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Carolyn Fischer ;
Qu, Chenfei ;
Goulder,Lawrence H.
A Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) is a multi-step process that analyzes and estimates the total sum of the direct and indirect impacts of proposed activities on the environment, and on communities....
Type: BriefReport#: 193168Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Locher, Helen ;
Staub, Carsten ;
Kate M. Lazarus
The Kenya Longitudinal Socioeconomic Study of Refugees and Host Communities
(K-LSRH) is the first nationally comparable survey of registered refugees and hosts in
Kenya, offering a unique opportunity to...
Type: ReportReport#: 193157Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
After the manipulated elections of 2010 that saw the victory of the military backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the junta dissolved in 2011 and Thein Sein was elected as president. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 193146Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Minischetti, Elisa
To make the value proposition work for retail agents, it is important to understand how the role that an MFSP expects them to perform fits within the agent’s existing business. Fit is particularly important...
Type: BriefReport#: 193148Date: August 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
Individuals’ socio-emotional skills (SES), and their perceptions of their skill levels, matter for labor market outcomes and other welfare outcomes. Men appear to have higher levels of SES than women,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10873Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Rachel Cassidy ;
Smita Das ;
Clara Delavallade ;
Kipchumba,Elijah ;
Komba,Julietha
While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This lack of an accepted measure makes it harder to monitor progress toward sustainable...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10875Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Paola Marcela Ballon Fernandez ;
Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva
Protected areas can conserve wildlife and benefit people when managed effectively. African governments increasingly delegate the management of protected areas to private, non-governmental organizations,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10874Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Denny,Sean ;
Gabriel Englander ;
Hunnicutt,Patrick
While there is some regulation in place, Israel’s restrictions and the dependency of Palestine on the Israel Central bank and regulation pose a huge barrier to mobile banking. The mobile money sector is...
Type: ReportReport#: 193156Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Margarete O. Biallas ;
Khaled Walid Qutob ;
Malamund,Mati
There are many reasons why so many mobile money launches have not met the high expectations set by senior management. Often, the main success metric is attaining a certain number of registered users within...
Type: BriefReport#: 193140Date: August 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper analyzes cycles in policy interest rates in 24 advanced economies over 1970–2024, combining a new application of business cycle methodology with rich time-series decompositions of the shocks...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10876Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Forbes,Kristin ;
Jongrim Ha ;
Ayhan Kose
This evaluation assesses how well the World Bank is supporting a blue economy approach to achieve sustainable and inclusive development of ocean and coastal states. A livable planet requires well-managed...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 192157Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
Consumption data from household surveys continue to be the main source for poverty and inequality statistics in low- and middle-income countries. Although recent research has demonstrated that the choice...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10871Date: August 19, 2024Author:
Akuffo Amankwah ;
Darcey Jeanne Genou Johnson ;
Josephine Ofori Adofo ;
Maryam Gul ;
Amparo Palacios-Lopez
A number of factors affect the successful development and deployment of a mobile money business. The entire external environment affects the mobile financial service providers (MFSP) ability to build a...
Type: BriefReport#: 193125Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) is a global hub of knowledge and policy expertise on migration and development. KNOMAD is supported by a multi-donor trust fund established...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193134Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
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