Documents et rapports
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Central Bank Independence and Sovereign Borrowing (anglais)
This paper studies the impact of central bank independence on sovereign borrowing, using an index that captures institutional constraints on central bank lending to the government across 155 countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11179 Date du document: 25 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Athanasopoulos, Angelos,Fraccaroli, Nicolo,Kern, Andreas,Romelli, Davide
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Ethiopia - Budget Execution in Health : From Bottlenecks to Solutions (anglais)
Ethiopia achieves a high overall rate of execution of its health budget. From 2016 to 2021 the health budget execution rate averaged 95 percent of the original budget allocation. The health budget execution...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 202498 Date du document: 25 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cros, Marion Jane,Guracha, Tseganeh Amsalu,Schramm, Noemi,Adugna, Mideksa
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Lao PDR - Budget Execution in Health : From Bottlenecks to Solutions (anglais)
The Lao People's Democratic Republic has a high execution rate for its overall health budget, ranging from 89 to 104 percent from 2015 to 2019. Aggregated execution rates are generally high across the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 202497 Date du document: 25 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Masaki, Emiko,Samavong, Chanhsy,Beveridge, Grant,Bounthideth, Soulaxay
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Budget Execution in Health : From Bottlenecks to Solutions - Pakistan (anglais)
Pakistan’s overall national health budget had a high rate of execution from 2016 to 2019, averaging 95 percent. However, execution rates between provinces as well as between categories of spending varied...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 202494 Date du document: 25 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hadi, Qurat ul Ain,Verhaghe, Johan,Yunus, Hammad
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Budget Execution in Health : From Bottlenecks to Solutions - Solomon Islands (anglais)
The Solomon Islands government plays key roles in the health sector, as a funder, regulator, and provider of nearly all health services. Health services are funded, managed, and delivered by the Ministry...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 202492 Date du document: 25 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mike, Michael,Irava, Wayne Jeremy,A, Maude Ruest,Rummery, Richie
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Democratic Republic of the Congo - Budget Execution in Health : From Bottlenecks to Solutions (anglais)
The Democratic Republic of Congo is committed to achieving Universal Health Care by 2030. Progress toward this goal faces challenges due to limitations in the execution and allocation of the country's...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 202495 Date du document: 25 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cros, Marion Jane,El Kadiri El Yamani, Fatima,Muvudi, Michel,Nana, Aminata TOU
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Assessing Secondary Benefits of Urban Flood Protection Projects : The Case of Wroclaw, Poland (anglais)
With global climate change impacting cities around the world, local and national governments need to plan for and invest in solutions that mitigate the climate and disaster risks their populations and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11178 Date du document: 22 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yu, Winston,Goldblatt, Ran,Doeffinger, Tesss,Eisenberg, Ross Marc,Rubinyi, Steven Louis
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Mangroves for Coastal Resilience in Bangladesh : Identification of Potential Locations, Assessment of Triple Dividends, and Cost Estimation (anglais)
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events due to its frequent exposure to floods and extensive low-lying areas. Coastal flood risks are expected to increase due climate change. Therefore...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11175 Date du document: 21 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mancheño, Alejandra Gijón,Brander, Luke McKinnon,Jafino, Bramka Arga,Urrutia, Ignacio,Kazi, Swarna
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Protecting Forests in the Congo Basin : An Empirical Basis for Performance-Linked Financing for the Republic of Congo (anglais)
The Republic of Congo, a country with extensive tropical forests and low deforestation rates, needs to balance export-driven development, especially through timber production, and sustainable forest management...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11177 Date du document: 21 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wang, Dieter,Kollenda, Philipp,de Smit, Veerle,Rigaud, Kanta Kumari,Gatiso, Tsegaye Ginbo,Golub, Alexander
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Designing and Analyzing Powerful Experiments : Practical Tips for Applied Researchers (anglais)
This paper offers practical advice on how to improve statistical power in randomized experiments through choices and actions researchers can take at the design, implementation, and analysis stages. At...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11176 Date du document: 21 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: McKenzie, David
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The Future of Poverty : Projecting the Impact of Climate Change on Global Poverty through 2050 (anglais)
Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as a critical issue with far-reaching socioeconomic implications that extend well beyond environmental concerns. Among the most pressing challenges is its impact...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11173 Date du document: 15 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna,Nguyen, Minh Cong,Corral Rodas, Paul Andres
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Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment : Evidence from Brazil (anglais)
What is the environmental impact of exports? Focusing on 2000–20, this paper combines customs, administrative, and census microdata to estimate employment elasticities with respect to exports. The findings...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11172 Date du document: 14 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bezerra De Goes, Carlos Andre,Canozzi Conceicao, Otavio,Lara Ibarra, Gabriel,Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys
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Impact of Heat Waves on Learning Outcomes and the Role of Conditional Cash Transfers : Evidence from Peru (anglais)
This paper evaluates the impact of higher temperatures on learning outcomes in Peru. The results suggest that 1 degree above 20°C is equivalent to 7 and 6 percent of a standard deviation of what a student...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11171 Date du document: 14 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Miranda Montero, Juan Jose,Contreras, Cesar
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From Tailwinds to Headwinds : Emerging and Developing Economies in the Twenty-First Century (anglais)
The first quarter of the twenty-first century has been transformative for emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). These economies now account for about 45 percent of global GDP, up from about...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11169 Date du document: 10 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balatti Mozzanica, Mirco,Kose, Ayhan,Mckinnon, Kate Frances,Palombo, Edoardo,Sugawara, Naotaka,Verduzco Bustos, Guillermo,Vorisek, Dana
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The Asymmetric Bank Distress Amplifier of Recessions (anglais)
One defining feature of financial crises, evident in U.S. and international data, is asymmetric bank distress—concentrated losses on a subset of banks. This paper proposes a model in which shocks to borrowers’...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11170 Date du document: 10 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kim, Dohan
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Exploring Household Recovery after a Disaster in a Conflict Setting : The Case of the June-November 2022 Nigerian Floods (anglais)
This paper examines the compounded effects of conflict on household recovery following disasters, using Nigeria as a case study. The analysis employs the “Unbreakable” microsimulation model to analyze...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11168 Date du document: 8 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ben Bih, Karima,Jafino, Bramka Arga,Desjonqueres, Chloe Genevieve Helene,Sirenko, Mikhail
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Unpacking the Disaster-FCV Nexus : Household Economic Impacts of Conflict and Floods in Nigeria (anglais)
This paper investigates the impact of conflicts on flood-affected households in Nigeria, utilizing a balanced panel dataset derived from the Living Standards Measurement Survey data collected in 2012...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11167 Date du document: 8 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ben Bih, Karima,Jafino, Bramka Arga,Desjonqueres, Chloe Genevieve Helene,Masson, Solene
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Intergenerational Income Mobility around the World : A New Database (anglais)
This paper introduces a new global database with estimates of intergenerational income mobility for 87 countries, covering 84 percent of the world’s population. This marks a notable expansion of the cross-country...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11166 Date du document: 7 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Munoz, Ercio,Van der Weide, Roy
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A “Big Push” Through the Finish Line: Evidence from a Composite Scholarship for Ugandan Students (anglais)
Secondary school completion in sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest in the world. Given the multiple constraints households face, the scope of purely demand-side interventions to narrow the completion gap...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11165 Date du document: 1 juillet 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lerva, Benedetta,Ferris,Denise,Fornasari, Margherita
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Digital Skills Development: Competence Frameworks, Assessment Tools, and Pedagogical Approaches (anglais)
This study provides a comprehensive review of digital skills frameworks, competences, and assessment tools, emphasizing the critical role of digital proficiency in personal, professional, and educational...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 203091 Date du document: 30 juin 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Angel-Urdinola, Diego,Chinen, Marjorie H,Rodon Casarramona, Gemma