Online gig work poses both opportunities
and challenges for governments and workers. On the upside,
it offers prospects for income generation, especially in
developing...
Type: ReportReport#: 183258Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
This chapter investigates challenges to
extending social protections (including social assistance
and social insurance [SI]) to gig workers and especially
examines the...
Type: ReportReport#: 183258Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
The objective of this report is to make
recommendations to the Government of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines (GoSVG) for the formulation of a country-specific
comprehensive...
Type: ReportReport#: 185837Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
This report zooms into what lies behind
the success or failure of teacher policies: how teachers
experience these policies, and how systems scale and sustain
these policies....
Type: ReportReport#: 185638Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
This study offers the first consistent
attempt to identify how energy sector decarbonization
policies have affected the energy mix over the past four
decades across...
Type: BriefReport#: WPS10330Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
Online gig work poses both opportunities
and challenges for governments and workers. On the upside,
it offers prospects for income generation, especially in
developing...
Type: ReportReport#: 183258Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
Online gig work poses both opportunities
and challenges for governments and workers. On the upside,
it offers prospects for income generation, especially in
developing...
Type: ReportReport#: 183258Date: November 15, 2023Author:
World Bank
GWSP is a multi-donor trust fund
administered by the World Bank Group’s Water
Global Practice (GP) and supported by the Australian
Department of ForeignAffairs...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 185825Date: November 14, 2023Author:
World Bank
Yemen’s economy has been
negatively transformed over nearly a decade by the ongoing
violent conflict, damaging its digital and telecom sector
which is in dire...
Type: ReportReport#: 185813Date: November 14, 2023Author:
World Bank
This paper analyzes gender gaps in the
Colombian labor market, with a particular focus on the
impact of the COVID-19 shock and the economic recovery.
Using household...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10605Date: November 14, 2023Author:
Davalos,Maria Eugenia ;
Londono Aguirre,Diana Isabel ;
Medina Gaspar,Daniel Santiago
To identify transactions at risk of
tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data
from France with import transaction data from Madagascar
using container...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10606Date: November 14, 2023Author:
Anne,Clement Xavier Frederik ;
Chalendard,Cyril Romain ;
Fernandes,Ana Margarida ;
Rijkers,Bob ;
Vicard,Vincent
Treating data collected pre- and
post-COVID-19 as a quasi-experiment, this paper examines the
importance of presumed enablers and safeguards in driving
the observed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10603Date: November 13, 2023Author:
Cull,Robert J. ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Mare,Davide Salvatore ;
Veerappan,Malarvizhi
On November 13, 2023, the World Bank
Group (WBG) held a consultation on the proposed gender
strategy 2024-2030 with participants at the 21st meeting of
the OECD DAC...
Type: BriefReport#: 192228Date: November 13, 2023Author:
World Bank
Many low, and middle-income countries
have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight
poverty. This paper provides the first evidence that
children from families...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189837Date: November 13, 2023Author:
Richard Freund ;
Favara,Marta ;
Lambert-Porter,Emma Catherine ;
Behrman,Jere R.
Against the background of high
inflation, climate shocks, and concerns about rising food
insecurity, this study documents the state of economic
sentiments and expectations...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10604Date: November 13, 2023Author:
Wollburg,Philip Randolph ;
Bentze,Thomas Patrick ;
Kilic,Talip
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
economies have been a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy
economic landscape. Average growthin the GCC surpassed 7
percent in 2022...
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