Building energy simulation utilizes a
physics-based simulation engine used for the prediction and
analysis of building energy use by solving heat transfer
equations...
Type: ReportReport#: 187029Date: January 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This human capital review assesses human
capital outcomes in Mauritania and identifies actions to
strengthen, utilize, and protect human capital. The
Government of Mauritania...
Type: ReportReport#: 186925Date: January 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Amazon hosts 10 percent of the
world’s known species making it the most
biodiverse place on Earth, contributing to crucial ecosystem
services at the local,...
Type: BriefReport#: 186939Date: January 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Disasters are frequent and clearly
harmful in developing countries, but precisely estimating
their overall cost and distributional impact is challenging.
This paper...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10668Date: January 12, 2024Author:
Floreani,Vincent Arthur ;
Rama,Martin G.
Despite the efforts made to increase
women’s inclusion in the economy, they are still
underrepresented in trade in general and in global value
chains in particular....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10667Date: January 12, 2024Author:
Kalliny,Marize ;
Zaki,Chahir
Health taxes are excise taxes that are
applied to products that generate health related negative
externalities and internalities, particularly tobacco,
alcohol, and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186967Date: January 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
South Africa's economic growth and
development agenda and to present a harmonized approach for
investing in priority areas for human capital formation. The
policy note...
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of
Statistics, with the support from the World Bank, has
launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 to
track the impacts of...
Based on the findings of a KNOMAD survey
and quantitative report, this policy brief focuses on the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South Africa’s
internal...
Type: BriefReport#: 193093Date: January 11, 2024Author:
Crush,Jonathan Scott ;
Tawodzera, Godfrey
This paper analyzes the effects of
carbon taxation and border carbon adjustments in a setting
where firms can choose to respond to taxation by abating or
by outsourcing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10665Date: January 11, 2024Author:
Artuc,Erhan ;
Sommer,Konstantin Heinrich Ludwig
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in
significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper
uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It
models the effect...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10666Date: January 11, 2024Author:
Jakubowski,Maciej Jan ;
Gajderowicz,Tomasz Janusz ;
Patrinos,Harry Anthony
South Africa's economic growth and
development agenda and to present a harmonized approach for
investing in priority areas for human capital formation. The
policy note...
Closing the gender digital divide by
ensuring equal access to and benefit of the internet may
reduce economic inequalities and close the gender gap in
employment by...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10663Date: January 10, 2024Author:
Mohieldin,Mahmoud ;
Ramadan,Racha
Forced displacement is a global
development issue. It is estimated that by early 2021, there
were more than 110 million displaced people, of whom 41% are
children under...
The full-scale invasion of the Russian
Federation in Ukraine has immense local impact and global
consequences. Ukraine is experiencing huge human and
economic suffering,...
Type: ReportReport#: 186919Date: January 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
In addition to the conventional
determinants of labor market participation and the choice
between wage employment and self-employment, there is a
growing interest of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10664Date: January 10, 2024Author:
Amankwah,Akuffo ;
Castaing,Pauline ;
Owoo,Nkechi Srodah ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo
Innovations to date in detecting
women’s employment have focused primarily on
improving individual-level questions. This paper explores an
alternative approach,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10659Date: January 9, 2024Author:
Assaad,Ragui A ;
Krafft,Caroline Gould
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