This Brief highlights issues related to the education and skill level of workers and top managers in firms in 27 European Union countries (the EU-27), using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES). The...
Business training has long been a staple of development policy, with annual expenditures exceeding US$ 1 billion in low- and middle-income countries. The vast majority of training is delivered in person...
Can skills-based programs promote women’s economic inclusion? This study randomizes access to a program teaching entrepreneurship skills in rural Uganda. The program covers record-keeping, identifying...
Social norms and childcare responsibilities often constrain women's mobility and work. This paper investigates the promise of digitalization in unlocking the growth of home-based businesses, an economic...
This paper quantifies the gains in gross domestic product per capita from closing gender employment gaps in the Middle East and North Africa, using three neoclassical growth models. The paper starts with...
This paper uses the context of the Islamic Republic of Iran-Iraq war in 1980–88 to study the long-term impacts of exposure to the war during school years on educational attainment and labor market outcomes...
Redevelopment of Lautoka Hospital and Ba Hospital is the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) to be implemented in Fiji. These upgrades represent a major milestone towards the Government of Fiji’s (GoF)...
This paper investigates the marriage market returns to female education by examining the resources transferred from the groom to the bride and her family at the time of marriage, known as the bride price...
Digital Development Partnership (DDP) has now completed its sixth year of the implementation cycle. During the reporting period, the partnership continued its ambitious growth path, rapidly accelerating...
Bengaluru is the information technology capital of India, often branded as the country’s Silicon Valley. The city boasts 485,000 street lights but upgrading and maintaining the infrastructure has been...
Using data from 41,873 individuals across 17 African countries and 13 studies, this paper maps data from various self-reported scales to 10 socio-emotional skills and examine gender differences in these...
This review and analysis seek to contextualize the important role of civil society organizations (CSOs) and collaborative social accountability approaches in strengthening the response to the COVID-19...
Is it possible to stimulate women’s employment by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? Using an experiment in Tunisia, this paper shows...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will continue to impact infrastructure projects around the globe in all sectors as supply chains are disrupted, customer demand falls, and health regulations...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPP) projects and investments around the globe in all sectors. In its first 18 months, the pandemic caused disruptions...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPP) projects around the globe in all sectors. There were disruptions not only to operational projects, but...
Processing operations in the textile industry consume a lot of water. While the mechanical aspects involving spinning and weaving need little water, the wet processing operations use water extensively...
A washing, dyeing, and finishing (WDF) factory can recover exhaust heat from gas engines by utilizing the energy to generate steam for process heating. Readymade garment (RMC) factories, where there is...
Mercerizing is an alkaline treatment with caustic soda (NaOH) under tensile strength which can improve the luster and strength of a fabric, giving it a permanent shine. Mercerizing uses a lot of caustic...
Many textile factories realize the embedded costs of water, energy and other resources in the production process. For instance, water is free, but pumping, treating, heating, cooling and/or discharging...