Multiple shocks, including the accelerating climate crisis, mounting public debt, increasing food insecurity, an unequal recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of geopolitical conflicts,...
Type: ReportReport#: 197394Date: January 13, 2025Author:
World Bank
The expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) is a core focus of global conservation efforts, with the “30x30” initiative to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 serving as a prominent example of this trend....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11030Date: January 10, 2025Author:
McDonald, Gavin ;
Bone, Jennifer ;
Costello,Christopher ;
Gabriel Englander ;
Raynor,Jennifer
This paper examines the dynamics of poverty in Bhutan between 2017 and 2022, utilizing cross-sectional data from the Bhutan Living Standards Surveys. The paper constructs synthetic panels and estimates...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11031Date: January 10, 2025Author:
Amendola,Nicola ;
Belotti,Federico ;
Alvin Etang Ndip ;
Mancini,Giulia ;
Vecchi,Giovanni
This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at the 62 poorest districts in Viet Nam. The analysis of multiple data sets spanning the past 20 years uses a regression...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11029Date: January 9, 2025Author:
Hai-Anh H. Dang ;
Klaus W. Deininger ;
Nguyen,Cuong Viet
The World Bank has worked to strengthen social registries in LAC and globally for several decades. This technical note aims to contribute to reducing the knowledge gap on the state of the art and challenges...
Type: ReportReport#: 196270Date: January 9, 2025Author:
Luis Eduardo Castro Abril ;
Luz Stella Rodriguez
This paper examines the main features of real growth per capita of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past six decades, before uncovering the sources of growth—including those of growth miracles. Three distinct...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11028Date: January 9, 2025Author:
Cesar Calderon ;
Andrew L. Dabalen ;
Ayan Qu
Crisis preparedness requires a comprehensive and cross-sectoral approach to risk management with targeted interventions across a range of different sectors. To provide a holistic assessment of preparedness,...
Type: ReportReport#: 196231Date: January 9, 2025Author:
World Bank
The European Union has improved living standards, yet welfare disparities persist across regions, countries, and demographic groups. This paper uses data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11027Date: January 9, 2025Author:
Monica Robayo ;
Lucia Echeverria
Bhutan faces significant risks from natural hazards, including floods, landslides, earthquakes, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and wildfires. Climate change is exacerbating these risks, leading...
Type: BriefReport#: 196232Date: January 9, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper documents the life cycle of formal and informal plants using five waves of the Mexican establishment census. Formal plants begin operations with three times more workers than informal plants...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11022Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Sarikaya,Furkan ;
Nazim Tamkoc ;
Jesica Torres Coronado
Longitudinal surveys are an invaluable source for analyzing the current state of and changes in human populations over time. However, maintaining the accuracy of estimates from a panel sample becomes more...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11026Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Falorsi,Piero ;
Righi,Paolo ;
Giulia Ponzini
This paper fills a gap in research on private equity investments in emerging markets and developing economies. It provides descriptive evidence and examines the distribution of returns across sectors such...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11025Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Florian Moelders ;
Edgar Salgado Chavez
This study examines the impact of temperature uncertainty on firm fixed capital growth using a unique dataset that merges extensive firm-level financial data with detailed grid-level weather data. The...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11020Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Yang,Jangho ;
Christian Schoder
This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11024Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Doe Fiankor,Dela-Dem ;
Woubet Kassa ;
Lartey,Abraham
This study investigates the impact of competition from informal or unregistered firms on the likelihood of formal manufacturing small and medium-size enterprises obtaining internationally recognized quality...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11023Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Mohammad Amin ;
Caroline Nogueira
This paper reviews the impact of financial inclusion on economic development outcomes. It highlights the benefits of financial inclusion, including greater savings, improved resilience to economic shocks,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11021Date: January 8, 2025Author:
Saniya Ansar ;
Leora Klapper ;
Dorothe Singer
This paper examines the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in which the first...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11014Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Furbush,Ann M. ;
Josephson,Anna ;
Talip Kilic ;
Michler,Jeffrey D.
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11015Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Josephson,Anna ;
Michler,Jeffrey D. ;
Talip Kilic ;
Siobhan Murray
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