Unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is primarily driven by three vulnerable groups that frequently lack both skills and work experience - the long-term unemployed, youth and women. Overall unemployment...
Type: ReportReport#: 191252Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper analyses the spatial effects of urban proximity in terms of distance on the patterns of poverty and livelihoods in the context of rural Zimbabwe. We find that that poverty prevalence rate increased...
Type: ReportReport#: 191237Date: June 14, 2024Author:
Shingirirai Mashura
This paper analyzes Mongolia's active labor market policies, social insurance system, and vocational training programs, focusing on their support for vulnerable groups. Drawing on desk research and stakeholder...
Type: ReportReport#: 191256Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document summarizes the main findings from the
follow-up surveys in Zimbabwe. Business owners and top
managers of 960 firms were interviewed between July
2016 and January 2017 (600 ES and 360 Micro)...
Type: ReportReport#: 191282Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
The document collection outlines a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for the year 2022, focusing on various national priority areas and key results. It includes a range of key performance...
Type: ReportReport#: 191307Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
On Wednesday 20 March 2024 the World Bank, in partnership with the Environmental Management Agency (EMA), conducted a one-day High-Level Stakeholder Consultative Workshop on Piloting Participatory Land-use...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 191233Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
Like other countries in the globe, Zimbabwe set targets on poverty eradication in a changing climate yet the implication of climate change on poverty has not been explored. The paper utilizes PICES datasets,...
This paper analyzes Mongolia's recent economic growth and job creation trends. Despite strong average GDP per capita growth (5.4 percent annually between 2000 and 2019) and rising labor productivity, challenges...
This paper examines the potential distributional effects of a tax increase on processed and ultra-processed foods. Using data from the most recent Brazilian consumption survey (POF 2017/2018), it analyzes...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10805Date: June 14, 2024Author:
Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho ;
Courtney Price Ivins ;
Roberto F. Iunes
This report emphasizes the continuous critical importance of international trade and integration in international markets for FNS. The report finds that in the long term, if governments shift toward more...
Type: ReportReport#: 191260Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
Zimbabwe has been in a policy-induced fragility for over two decades. Lately, it has initiated talks on arrears clearance and debt restructuring. The proposed policy reform measures are aimed at achieving...
Type: ReportReport#: 191280Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper examines the potential distributional effects of a tax increase on processed and ultra-processed foods. Using data from the most recent Brazilian consumption survey (POF 2017/2018), it analyzes...
Type: ReportReport#: 190119Date: June 14, 2024Author:
Bernardo D.P. Coelho ;
Courtney Price Ivins ;
Roberto Iunes
This study assesses gender gaps in the energy sector in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It is based on a series of focus group discussions and key informant interviews, accompanied...
Type: ReportReport#: 191277Date: June 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study attempts to relate the policy and good practice literature on urban and suburban passenger rail, much of which originates from high- or middle-income countries to the context of developing cities...
Type: ReportReport#: 191169Date: June 13, 2024Author:
Martha B. Lawrence ;
Losada, Alfonso Cabrillo ;
Moore, Marissa ;
Onginjo, Betty ;
Opiyo, Tom ;
Rebelo, Jorge ;
Sambo, Bello
This paper studies the long-run welfare and productivity effects of transit improvements in the Greater Amman Municipality. The paper builds a rich quantitative spatial model that includes many aspects...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10802Date: June 13, 2024Author:
Tatjana Kleineberg ;
Sally Beth Murray ;
Tang,Yulu ;
Jon Kher Kaw
The multiphase programmatic approach (MPA) is a way of structuring a long, large, or complex engagement—typically over 8–10 years—either as a set of smaller linked operations or phases using investment...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 191121Date: June 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
Deployments of fifth generation (5G) mobile network technologies are taking off globally, with more than one billion connections reached by the end of 2022. This deployment includes 5G trials, licensing,...
Social norms and childcare responsibilities often constrain women's mobility and work. This paper investigates the promise of digitalization in unlocking the growth of home-based businesses, an economic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10803Date: June 13, 2024Author:
Alhorr,Layane
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