The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to h... Section: Reports
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Apr 2018 The paper also emphasize the need for regulatory consistency within and between jurisdictions to ensure a level playing field. Section: Working Papers
by Clive Briault | On 11 Jan 2018 This paper introduces a new, publicly available database for tracking merchandise trade in the global value chains for apparel/textile/footwear, motor vehicles and parts, and electronics, developed or... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Michael Ferrantino | On 01 Jan 2018 This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in ci... Section: Working Papers
by Patricia Jones | On 01 Dec 2017 This inaugural issue of the World Bank Group’s Global Investment Competitiveness Report presents novel analytical insights and empirical evidence on foreign direct investment’s (FDI) drivers and contr... Section: Reports
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Jan 2017 The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Launched with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the da... Section: Reports
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Jan 2017 Although global growth is projected to accelerate gradually, a wide range of risks threaten to derail the recovery, including a sharper-than-expected slowdown in major emerging markets, sudden escalat... Section: Reports
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Jun 2016 This report is aimed at better informing that debate by demystifying the
global and South Asian apparel markets, estimating the potential gains in exports and jobs (including for women), and identify... Section: Reports
by Gladys Lopez Acevedo | On 01 Apr 2016 The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food,... Section: Working Papers
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Petr Havlík | On 01 Nov 2015 The 2015-16 Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impa... Section: Reports
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 07 Oct 2015 Urbanization provides South Asian countries with the potential to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability, but a new World Bank report finds the... Section: Reports
by World Bank | On 24 Sep 2015 The report reveal the magnitude of the challenge that the world still faces in the quest for gender equality. This report promotes the cause of inclusion of women by informing research and policy disc... Section: Reports
by World Bank | On 09 Sep 2015 This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand f... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Basab Dasgupta | On 01 Sep 2015 This report presents the findings of an operations research study conducted to assess the implementation of the Government of Bangladesh’s National Nutrition Services Program (NNS) and to identify the... Section: Reports
by Nkosinathi V.N. Mbuya | On 01 Aug 2015 As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability a... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Songqing Jin | On 01 Aug 2015 There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and sy... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Salman Asim | On 01 Jul 2015 This report documents the state of the social safety net agenda in low- and middle-income countries. In recent years, a true policy revolution has been under way. Th e statistics in this report captur... Section: Reports
by World Bank | On 29 Jun 2015 This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly repres... Section: Reports
by Alaka Holla | On 01 Jun 2015 The South Asia region is lagging behind many regions in the world in regional electricity cooperation and trading, despite the huge anticipated benefits. This study uses an electricity planning model... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Govinda Timilsina | On 01 Jun 2015 South Asian countries, facing challenges in efficiently meeting growing electricity demand, can benefit from increased cross-border electricity cooperation and trade by harnessing complementarities in... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Anoop Singh | On 01 Jun 2015 The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past six months in India's economy, and places these in a longer term and global conte... Section: Reports
by World Trade Organisation | On 01 Apr 2015 The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones... Section: Reports
by Ashok Gulati | On 01 Jan 2015 Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organiza... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Ajay Tandon | On 01 Jan 2015 This paper studies the credit market implications and real effects of one the largest borrower bailout programs in history, enacted by the government of India against the backdrop of the 2008–2009 fin... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Xavier Giné | On 01 Nov 2014 The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more t... Section: General
by Ahmad Ahsan | On 01 Oct 2014 Over the past 40 years, China’s population has been aging at a rate that took more than 100 years in developed countries. In 2010, the number of people over 60 years old reached 178 million in China,... Section: Reports
by World Bank | On 05 Sep 2014 Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia examines the prevalence and factors associated with various types of violence against women and girls in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indi... Section: Reports
by Jennifer L. Solotaroff | On 01 Sep 2014 Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels... Section: Reports
by Jeni Klugman | On 01 Sep 2014 The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on wel... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Dan Biller | On 01 Sep 2014 This report covers education from primary through upper secondary school.
Given its importance for school readiness, this report also reviews early childhood
development even though that is outside... Section: Reports
by Halil Dundar | On 01 Jul 2014 The report argues the recent setback in global economy and ways to strengthen the growth in developing countries. with a view to undertake growth and recovery in high-income countries, there is need t... Section: Reports
by World Bank | On 01 Jun 2014 This paper reviews 19 studies with quantitative evidence on the impact of cash transfers on temptation goods. Studies find either no significant impact or a significant negative impact of transfers on... Section: Working Policy Paper
by David K. Evans | On 01 May 2014 Despite armed internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in recent years, enjoying healthy economic growth and substantially reducing poverty. Moreover,... Section: Reports
by Halil Dundar | On 01 May 2014 This report presents the interim findings of the World Resources Report 2013–2014: Creating a Sustainable Food Future, a collaboration of the World Resources Institute, the United Nations Development... Section: Reports
by Tim Searchinger | On 01 Apr 2014 This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over
20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit
programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth
of microfinance institutions representing... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 01 Mar 2014 The studies broad aim is to access the welfare impact of solar home systems (SHS) on households and to evaluate the present institutional structure and financing mechanisms. Also it accesses the direc... Section: General
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 01 Jan 2014 “Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap” reveals that the region’s growing demands for infrastructure has enlarged an existing infrastructure gap. According to the report, address... Section: Reports
by Luis Andrés | On 01 Dec 2013 This paper considers the welfare and distributional
consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India
through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Hanan G Jacoby | On 01 Apr 2013 This study identifies three priority areas for India's policymakers as they try to harness economic efficiency and manage spatial equity associated with urbanization. First, to enhance productivity, i... Section: Reports
by World Bank | On 21 Feb 2013 Malaysia has embarked on an ambitious plan to transform the economy with the aim of becoming a developed economy by the year 2020. The country's technical and vocational education and training (TVET)... Section: Tool kits and Teaching Material
by World Bank | On 02 Jan 2013 he purpose of this paper is to provide a summary analysis of five case studies prepared for the 2013 World Development Report team that illustrate why and how the representative voice and economic rig... Section: General
by Martha Chen | On 01 Jan 2013 This report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin... Section: Reports
by Reema Nayar | On 28 Jan 2012 Gender at Work looks closely at existing constraints as well as policies and practices that show promise in closing the gaps. A companion to the 2013 World Development Report on jobs, the report advoc... Section: Reports
by Jeni Klugman | On 01 Jan 2012 Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental de... Section: Reports
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Nov 2011 Almost half of all households have at least one migrant abroad or a returnee. Estimates of the number of Nepali migrants abroad vary widely, but the most frequently cited estimate, including seasonal... Section: Working Papers
by World Bank [WB] | On 23 Jun 2011 Increasing life expectancy in South Asia is resulting in a demographic transition that can, under the right
circumstances, yield dividends through more favorable dependency ratios for a time. With ag... Section: Reports
by Michael Maurice Engelgau | On 10 Feb 2011 A large body of research has attempted to explore the links between women's autonomy and their uptake of reproductive health services in the South Asia region, but the evidence so far is inconclusive... Section: General
by Xiaohui Hou | On 01 Jan 2011 It was considered important to undertake a broad-spectrum enquiry into the World Bank and the functioning of its allies and to review their impacts nationally. This is the origin of the Independent Pe... Section: General
by Independent People's Tribunal | On 21 Sep 2008 The focus of this report is on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impact. The overarching objective of this report is to promot... Section: Reports
by World Bank [WB} | On 01 Jun 2008 Youth at risk can be defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 24 who face “environmental, social, and family conditions that hinder their personal development and their successful integration... Section: General
by World Bank | On 25 Apr 2008 The trade performance of countries in South Asia over the past two decades has been poor relative to other regions. Exports from South Asia have doubled over the past 20 years to approximately USD 100... Section: Working Policy Paper
by John Wilson | On 01 Dec 2007 The Report examines five pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming famili... Section: General
by World Bank | On 11 Nov 2007 An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies. Section: General
by World Bank | On 08 Nov 2006 This paper examines the economic case for the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement signed on January 6 th, 2004 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It s... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Tercan Baysan | On 01 Jan 2006 This paper presents a basic assessment of the financial performance of infrastructure service operators in developing countries. It relies on a new database of 120 companies put together to track the... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Maria Pinglo | On 01 Aug 2004 This paper focuses on two different types of malnutrition and then looks at the links between poor nutrition and agriculture.Malnutrition is one of the most devastating problems worldwide and its dire... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Kevin Cleaver | On 01 Oct 2002 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr... Section: General
by R. Radhakrishna | On 01 Nov 1997 This paper analyses the benefits from female education (who gains and in what ways) and the constraints (direct and opportunity costs, reflecting economics and tradition). It then outlines promising a... Section: General
by Barbara Herz | On 30 Sep 1991 The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective... Section: Working Policy Paper
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 01 Jul 1900 This paper critically reviews the strengths and weaknesses of various objective and subjective indicators of corruption. Section: Working Papers
by Alexander Hamilton | On 01 Jan 1900 |