Most disaster risk assessments use damages to physical assets as their central metric, often neglecting distributional impacts and the coping and recovery capacity of affected people. To address this shortcoming,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11129Date: May 21, 2025Author:
Middelanis, Robin ;
Jafino, Bramka Arga ;
Hill, Ruth ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Hallegatte, Stephane
The Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) program in Chad, part of the 2024–2028 National Strategy, aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations to shocks like climate crises and refugee influxes....
Type: BriefReport#: 201576Date: May 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Social, emotional, and behavioral skills are critical for success across life domains, yet research is constrained by a lack of internationally validated measures for adult populations. Existing tools...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11128Date: May 21, 2025Author:
Marsh,Vic ;
Delavallade, Clara ;
Das, Smita ;
Rouanet, Lea Marie ;
Koroknay-Palicz, Tricia ;
McDaniel,Dawn
This report aims to strengthen the evidence base for tackling the health effects of road transport as a key element of the human capital agenda, particularly across emerging and developing economies. It...
Type: ReportReport#: 201541Date: May 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Africa has the world’s youngest population. Over half of 15-19-year-old girls in Africa are out of school, or are married, or have children. Ethiopia stands out among African countries as a country with...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 201900Date: May 20, 2025Author:
Buehren, Niklas ;
Hailemichael, Natnael Berhane
How sustainable are Ghana’s cities? This Strategy measures sustainability along three
dimensions—the enabling Urban System, People & Economy, and Environment—each of which
has four building blocks. This...
Type: ReportReport#: 201526Date: May 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) is hosting approximately 1.1 million (as of April 30, 2025) Displaced Rohingya Population (DRP) in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. The GoB is advocating for voluntary repatriation...
Type: ReportReport#: 201516Date: May 20, 2025Author:
Wieser, Christina
This report advocates for scaling up investments in the treatment of used water to transform it into ‘new’ water suitable for municipal and industrial use. It presents a compelling business case and outlines...
This study evaluates the impact of a program leveraging large language models for virtual tutoring in secondary education in Nigeria. Using a randomized controlled trial, the program deployed Microsoft...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11125Date: May 19, 2025Author:
De Simone, Martin Elias ;
Tiberti, Federico Hernan ;
Barron Rodriguez, Maria Rebeca ;
Manolio, Federico Alfredo ;
Mosuro, Wuraola ;
Dikoru, Eliot Jolomi
Forced displacement has reached unprecedented levels, with over 120 million individuals displaced globally as of 2024 due to conflict, violence, climate change, and human rights violations. These crises...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11123Date: May 19, 2025Author:
Rozo, Sandra ;
Grossman,Guy
Abstract
The circumstances into which individuals are born are beyond their control, yet they play a significant role in shaping people’s economic opportunities and are thus key drivers of inequality...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11126Date: May 19, 2025Author:
Davalos, Maria ;
Monroy Barragan, Juan Manuel
This paper extends the classic Tinbergen rule within the context of financial regulation, explicitly accounting for the inverted U-shaped relationship between market competition and financial stability....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11124Date: May 19, 2025Author:
Calice, Pietro
Facilitating access to financial services is a core component of most economic inclusion programs, which aim to build resilience and create opportunities for poor and vulnerable households. These programs...
Type: BriefReport#: 198038Date: May 19, 2025Author:
Stepanovic, Serena ;
Arevalo Sanchez, Ines ;
Diwakar, Vidya ;
Gilligan, Dan
The Country Opinion Survey in the United Arab Emirates assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in the United Arab Emirates perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with...
Type: ReportReport#: 201728Date: May 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
This five-step provides details on how to apply Teach Digital in a new setting, outlining the recommended process teams should follow and explaining the complementary resources available at their disposal....
Type: BriefReport#: 201481Date: May 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper develops a bottom-up, sector-specific approach to modeling potential output that overcomes limitations of traditional top-down estimates for long-term projections and policy analysis. The model...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11127Date: May 19, 2025Author:
Jooste, Charl ;
Tercioglu, Remzi Baris
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