Teachers are one of the most important inputs for learning, but in many low-income countries they are poorly distributed between schools. This paper discusses the case of Malawi, which has introduced new...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10844Date: July 10, 2024Author:
Salman Asim ;
Ravinder Casley Gera ;
Juan Martin Moreno ;
Wong,Kerry
Evidence from high-income countries suggests that the quality of school leadership has measurable impacts on teacher behaviors and student learning achievement. However, there is a lack of rigorous evidence...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10846Date: July 10, 2024Author:
Salman Asim ;
Ravinder Casley Gera ;
Harris,Donna ;
Dercon,Stefan
School closures from COVID-19 have resulted in large learning losses, from 0.05 to 0.17 standard deviations in high income countries, equivalent to two to six months of lost learning. However, the extent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10843Date: July 10, 2024Author:
Salman Asim ;
Bashir,Sajitha ;
Ravinder Casley Gera
This paper examines how women’s fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth, using six experiments conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contrary to predictions that an increase in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10848Date: July 10, 2024Author:
Aletheia Amalia Donald ;
Markus Goldstein ;
Tricia Koroknay-Palicz ;
Sage,Mathilde
Developments over the past few years, which include the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent polycrisis, conflict in several of Cameroon’s regions, and fiscal consolidation, have left Cameroon in an extremely...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 191135Date: July 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
Tax revenue collection is essential to the state’s ability to address market failures, provide goods and services such as health and education, invest in infrastructure, stabilize the economy in response...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192069Date: July 10, 2024Author:
Rishabh Choudhary ;
Franz Ulrich Ruch ;
Emilia Skrok
Using a cluster-randomized trial, this paper evaluates the impact of group-based interpersonal therapy on mental health and human capital accumulation among adolescent girls in Uganda who were at risk...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10849Date: July 10, 2024Author:
Baird,Sarah ;
Berk Ozler ;
Dell'Aira,Chiara ;
Parisotto,Luca ;
Us-Salam,Danish
The need for financial services in South Asia is the greatest among those living in low-income, fragile, and frontier parts of the region. Improving access to finance for individuals and businesses in...
Type: ReportReport#: 192492Date: July 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
Addressing climate change requires the deployment of green technologies. Using novel transaction-level import data from 35 emerging markets in a firm-level structural gravity model, this paper examines...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 195582Date: July 9, 2024Author:
Samuel Rosenow ;
Alvaro Raul Espitia Rueda ;
Ana Margarida Fernandes
The World Bank Group’s SWIFT is a rapid poverty assessment tool that can produce accurate household data in a timely, cost-effective and user-friendly manner. Developed by the Poverty and Equity Practice,...
Type: BriefReport#: 192461Date: July 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, focuses on the private sector to promote growth, reduce poverty, and improve people’s lives in developing countries. IFC is the world’s largest multilateral financier...
Type: BriefReport#: 192466Date: July 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Since 2020, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have experienced disruptions to agricultural activities due to the adverse effects of multiple global crises. Notably, the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10842Date: July 9, 2024Author:
Akuffo Amankwah ;
Alemayehu A. Ambel ;
Sydney Gourlay ;
Talip Kilic ;
Yannick Valentin Markhof ;
Philip Randolph Wollburg
The impacts of climatic shocks are already being felt across Europe and are bound to intensify in line with further climate change. Even rapid and far-reaching progress on decarbonization cannot avoid...
Type: ReportReport#: 189810Date: July 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Housing is a basic human need, but rapid urbanization, sub-standard construction, and lack of finance contribute to the global crisis in housing, creating one of the biggest challenges in emerging markets....
Type: BriefReport#: 192467Date: July 9, 2024Author:
Friedemann Roy ;
Douglas Grayson
This paper evaluates the business support programs deployed in the Kyrgyz Republic amid the emergency triggered by the COVID-19 crisis from 2020 to 2022. This analysis brings to light the fiscal consequences...
Type: ReportReport#: 192457Date: July 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
International Finance Corporation (IFC) has an extensive experience supporting and structuring transportation projects in emerging markets, through project finance, corporate finance, and public-private...
Type: BriefReport#: 192459Date: July 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Submarine cables enable international connectivity and are essential for high-speed internet access. This paper tests their potential to improve the affordability of internet access by supporting a price...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10840Date: July 9, 2024Author:
Cariolle,Joël ;
Georges Vivien Houngbonon ;
Tarna Abdoul Hamid Silue ;
Davide Strusani
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, focuses on the private sector to promote growth, reduce poverty, and improve people’s lives in developing countries. IFC is the...
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