Cabo Verde’s climate exposure, partly also because of its geography, is compounded by economic vulnerabilities. The country has experienced robust economic growth since the early 1990s and achieved a substantial...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 196347Date: January 15, 2025Author:
World Bank
In developed countries, public childcare programs have increased maternal employment by easing time constraints. However, their impact in lower-middle-income settings with multigenerational households...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11038Date: January 15, 2025Author:
Abdurazzakova,Dilnovoz ;
Chiyu Niu ;
Avralt-Od Purevjav
This report examines the transition of Turkish firms to align with circular economy (CE) principles, highlighting both immediate needs and the longer-term opportunities from engaging in a transition agenda....
Type: ReportReport#: 196367Date: January 15, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank is committed to supporting countries in efforts to advance inclusion that benefits all, including sexual and gender minorities. In recent years, many countries have made advances in this...
Type: ReportReport#: 196368Date: January 15, 2025Author:
Clifton John Cortez ;
Julia Constanze Braunmiller
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to Indonesia between FY 2013 and FY23. The evaluation will focus on the Bank Group’s contribution to...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 196476Date: January 15, 2025Author:
World Bank
Most low-income countries lack high-frequency firm-level data to monitor the effect of economic shocks in real time. We examine whether administrative tax data
can help fill this gap, in the context of...
Type: ReportReport#: 198027Date: January 15, 2025Author:
Pierre Bachas ;
Anne Brockmeyer ;
Pablo Garriga ;
Camille Semelet
The World Bank is committed to supporting countries in efforts to advance inclusion that benefits all, including sexual and gender minorities. In recent years, many countries have made advances in this...
Type: ReportReport#: 196368Date: January 15, 2025Author:
Clifton John Cortez ;
Julia Constanze Braunmiller
Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) have upended development progress. Overlapping and mutually reinforcing crises, including worsening climate challenges, ideological polarization and extremism, growing...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 196477Date: January 14, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past few decades, fiscal policy has been about 30 percent more procyclical and about 40 percent more volatile in commodity-exporting emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) than in other...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11037Date: January 14, 2025Author:
Francisco Arroyo Marioli ;
Garima Vasishtha
This paper uncovers new stylized facts on the emergence and diffusion of green technologies across countries, sectors, and firms. It draws on the textual analysis of patents and corporate earnings calls...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11036Date: January 14, 2025Author:
Paulo Bastos ;
Lucio Castro
Western Balkan countries are consistent participants in international learning assessments like the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS)....
Type: ReportReport#: 196308Date: January 13, 2025Author:
Tigran Shmis ;
Paul Marie Michel Cahu ;
Brajkovic, Lucia ;
James Gresham
This paper develops a method to predict comparable income and consumption distributions for all countries in the world from a simple regression with a handful of country-level variables. To fit the model,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11034Date: January 13, 2025Author:
Daniel Gerszon Mahler ;
Marta Schoch ;
Christoph Lakner ;
Minh Nguyen Nguyet Do
This paper estimates the number of firms in Africa, considering their size and formal status. It relies on a novel methodology that combines multiple data sources. The results suggest that in 2020, there...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11032Date: January 13, 2025Author:
Marcio Cruz ;
Florian Moelders ;
Edgar Salgado Chavez ;
Ariane Tamara Volk
This paper estimates the monetary and full returns to micro-entrepreneurship using a cross-section of Mexican women leveraging self-reported reservation wages. A generalized Roy model of micro-entrepreneurship...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11033Date: January 13, 2025Author:
Williams,Benjamin ;
Jesica Torres Coronado ;
David C. Francis
Abstract
The transition to a low-carbon economy requires an expansion in the production of clean energy technologies. Recent shifts in the European Union’s industrial policy aim to boost local manufacturing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11035Date: January 13, 2025Author:
Samuel Rosenow ;
Sarur Chaudhary LNU ;
Gregor Semieniuk ;
Emilija Timmis
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