This report presents the results of
comprehensive research on cultural heritage and sustainable
tourism sector (CHST) and climate change, carried out in
partnership...
Type: ReportReport#: 185891Date: December 12, 2023Author:
World Bank
Air pollution profoundly impacts
welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition,
AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In the Georgian
capital, Tbilisi,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10643Date: December 12, 2023Author:
Baquie,Sandra ;
Behrer,Arnold Patrick ;
Du,Xinming ;
Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan ;
Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso
This guide provides a stepwise approach
to the implementation of an import and export risk-based
inspection system for food safety border inspection. Such
guidance is...
Type: ReportReport#: 186388Date: December 12, 2023Author:
Sampedro Parra,Fernando ;
Sela,Shane Robert
The aim of this report is to analyze the
Dominican Republic’s EdTech policies and
practices to better understand the status of digital
education programs and...
This paper assesses the medium-run
effects of government support to firms during the COVID-19
crisis and whether the effectiveness of this support varied
with its timing....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10641Date: December 12, 2023Author:
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Demirguc-Kunt,Asli ;
Singer,Dorothe
This paper quantifies the value of
fertilizer for agricultural production and trade in a
developing economy where agriculture is centrally important
by using an unprecedented...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10642Date: December 12, 2023Author:
Ghose,Devaki ;
Pinheiro Fraga,Eduardo ;
Fernandes,Ana Margarida
Bilateral trade relationships between
countries vary across products. Such heterogeneity poses
challenges when assessing the economic impacts of trade
agreements. This...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10634Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Kee,Hiau Looi ;
Nicita,Alessandro
Trade expansion can create more and
better jobs. This paper revisits the linkages between trade
and jobs, focusing on employment, labor incomes, and job
activities across...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10635Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth ;
Kruse,Hagen ;
Aguilar Luna,Luis Alejandro ;
Maliszewska,Maryla
In Recife, Brazil, the water and
sanitation utility company is responsible for constructing
the public sewerage network. However, connecting a house to
the available...
Type: BriefReport#: 186381Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis ;
Brescianini,Juliana Neves Soares ;
Finamor Pfeifer,Flora ;
De Carvalho Marques,Murilo ;
Correia Santos,Leonardo Gill ;
Dill,Helena Cristina
How does the misallocation of
complementary public capital affect the spatial organization
of economic activity? To answer this question, this paper
endogenizes the...
The Recife Metropolitan Region (RMR),
located in the state of Pernambuco in Northeast Brazil, has
4.1 million inhabitants, of which 99% have access to water
and 34%...
Type: BriefReport#: 186991Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis ;
Brescianini,Juliana Neves Soares ;
Finamor Pfeifer,Flora ;
De Carvalho Marques,Murilo ;
Correia Santos,Leonardo Gill ;
Dill,Helena Cristina
With today being Universal Health
Coverage (UHC) Day, many stakeholders are rightly concerned
about the stalling progress towards the Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG3),...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192840Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Fan,Victoria ;
Andrews,Kathryn Gilman ;
Sharma,Jigyasa
This paper uses the introduction of
preparatory school classes targeting six-year-old children
in Romania to study whether universal, compulsory, public
care provision...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10638Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Robayo,Monica ;
Rude,Britta Laurin
The report explores modeling approaches,
designs, and impacts of CGE modeling exercises carried out
for energy subsidy reforms in different country settings.
The report...
All countries across South Asia, faced
with the rising risks of COVID-19 infection rates,
implemented severe economic lockdowns in early 2020 with
varying frequencies...
Type: ReportReport#: 170407Date: December 11, 2023Author:
World Bank
Trade and labor markets are intimately
connected. This connection presents governments with a dual
economic challenge that cannot be resolved without social
compromise:...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10637Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Shepherd,Ben ;
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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