This paper explores trends in and the potential determinants of the types of jobs held by workers, and their relationship with poverty reduction, in an unbalanced panel of 89 countries over the past 30...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10856Date: July 18, 2024Author:
Choi,Yunji ;
Mario Gronert ;
Maddalena Honorati ;
Merfeld,Joshua D. ;
David Newhouse
This guidance note outlines the objective and methodology of the Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI). It is designed to help stakeholders interpret the results of the port efficiency ranking....
Type: ReportReport#: 192626Date: July 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cities are often heralded as the engines of economic growth, contributing a disproportionate share of a country's GDP relative to their population size. This trend has fueled a significant increase in...
Type: ReportReport#: 192630Date: July 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objectives of the quantitative research are: quantify traveler profile; importance of sustainability and traveler understanding of nature based tourism (NBT) versus marine and coastal versus eco tourism;...
Type: ReportReport#: 192386Date: July 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS), regularly collected by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) in collaboration with the World Bank since 2020, included questions to measure youth's (age...
Brazil possesses an abundance of natural resources that contribute to meeting its energy demand. Thanks to a traditional base of hydroelectric power and the more recent development of onshore wind and...
Type: ReportReport#: 192633Date: July 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report provides a quantification of the households vulnerable to falling into poverty as the result of a shock, as well as a qualitative analysis of the level of adaptability of the current social...
Type: ReportReport#: 192616Date: July 18, 2024Author:
Maria Gabriela Farfan Betran ;
Lyliana Gayoso ;
Tisei,Francesco
This paper describes power sector modeling methodologies for the World Bank’s macrostructural model — MFMod. Macrostructural models generally do not model sectors, such as the power sector, in detail,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10854Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Charl Jooste ;
Florent John McIsaac ;
Alexander Haider
The Quality of Expenditure Heatmap (QEH) is a tool that provides information to help assess the quality of public expenditure, comparing expenditure outcomes across countries or groups of countries. Using...
Type: ReportReport#: 192076Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Santiago Herrera ;
Hironobu Isaka
The Quality of Expenditure Heatmap (QEH) is a tool that provides information to help assess the quality of public expenditure, comparing expenditure outcomes across countries or groups of countries. Using...
Type: ReportReport#: 192076Date: July 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the borderlands of the Horn of Africa, climate variability and population growth are leading to the increasing scarcity of resources, including pasture and water. This pattern is intensifying vulnerability...
Type: BriefReport#: 192593Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Nancy Balfour
This document relates to the work carried out within the RAS on Technical Support for the Preparation of Flood Risk Management Plans for Romania Project, also known as the RO - FLOODS Project, and is directed...
Type: ReportReport#: 192591Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Chris-Philip Fischer ;
Amparo Samper Hiraldo ;
Elena Daniela Ghita ;
Feodorov, Cosmin ;
Petcana, Alexandra
This paper studies the factors affecting governments’ mixed use of tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) as trade and industrial policies. Results based on detailed bilateral-product-level ad valorem...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10855Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Hiau Looi Kee ;
Enze Xie
Economic growth has recovered. The Moroccan economy has shown resilience in the face of various challenges, including a slowdown in the global economy, an inflation shock, and the Al Haouz earthquake....
Type: ReportReport#: 192592Date: July 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
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