Documents et rapports
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Children in Monetary Poor Households : Global, Regional, and Select National Trends in the Progress against Child Poverty (anglais)
This paper presents the first estimates of extreme child poverty and child poverty using the World Bank’s recently revised international poverty lines. Using the international poverty line of $3.00 per...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11203 Date du document: 5 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lara Ibarra, Gabriel,Salmeron Gomez, Daylan Alberto,Engilbertsdottir, Solrun,Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina,Delamonica, Enrique,Yablonski, Jennifer
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Beyond Camps and Communities : The Economics of Refugee Relocation in Bangladesh (anglais)
Relocating refugees to remote purpose-built settlements offers an alternative to hosting refugees in traditional camps or local communities. Yet, its consequences remain poorly understood. This paper evaluates...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11204 Date du document: 5 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rozo, Sandra,Urbina, María José,Wieser, Christina
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Social Defaults and Plan Choice: The Case of Spousal Following (anglais)
This paper studies how couples in the Medicare Part D program choose an insurance plan. Over 70 percent of enrollees choose the same plan as their spouse. Even among those with differing health care needs...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11207 Date du document: 5 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gross, Tal,Layton, Tim,Prinz, Daniel,Yates, Julia
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Temperature Anomalies as an Obstacle to Women’s Rights and Economic Empowerment? (anglais)
Gender equality is associated with economic growth and resilience, yet various factors, including climate change, may stall progress toward equal rights for men and women. This paper analyzes historical...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11206 Date du document: 5 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behr, Daniela Monika,Shen, Liang,Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria,Trumbic, Tea
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An Apple a Day : The Impact of Healthier School Meals on Children in Jordan (anglais)
Poor nutritional choices and unhealthy behaviors are considered responsible for the rise in childhood overweight and obesity and may reinforce each other, creating a vicious cycle. This paper studies a...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11208 Date du document: 5 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lombardini, Simone,Kondylis, Florence,Lerva, Benedetta,Heirman, Jonas,Khincha, Roshni,Uckat, Hannah Irmela
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Algorithms and Bureaucrats: Evidence from Tax Audit Selection in Senegal (anglais)
Can algorithms enhance bureaucrats’ work in developing countries? In data-poor environments, bureaucrats often exercise discretion over key decisions, such as audit selection. Exploiting newly digitized...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11205 Date du document: 5 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bachas, Pierre,Brockmeyer, Anne,Ferreira, Alipio,Sarr, Bassirou
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Key Insights from Social Licensing to Operate (SLO) in Renewable Energy Projects: Applying Lessons to Clean Hydrogen Development (anglais)
As renewable hydrogen becomes central to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel manufacturing or heavy transport, deployment in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries depends on obtaining...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 204294 Date du document: 4 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
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Nowcasting Disruptions to Human Capital Formation : Evidence from High-Frequency Household and Geospatial Data in Rural Malawi (anglais)
Exposure to extreme weather events and other adverse shocks has led to an increasing number of humanitarian crises in developing countries in recent years. These events cause acute suffering and compromise...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11202 Date du document: 3 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tennant, Elizabeth J.,Michuda, Aleksandr,Upton, Joanna B.,Chamorro, Andres,Engstrom, Ryan,Mann, Michael L.,Newhouse, David,Weber, Michael,Barrett, Christopher B.
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Early Warnings Coverage, Determinants of Reception, and Benefits : What Surveys Can Tell Us (anglais)
Early warning systems are a cornerstone of disaster risk reduction, enabling timely alerts and protective actions that save lives and reduce damages. Yet, despite their documented cost-effectiveness and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11199 Date du document: 3 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beaudet, Chloé,Bernard, Louise,Jafino, Bramka Arga,Avner, Paolo
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Socioemotional Skills in Sub-Saharan Africa : Validating and Comparing Behavioral and Self-Reported Measures (anglais)
This paper validates a new set of behavioral measures for socioemotional skills across three Sub-Saharan African countries—Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Tanzania—and compares them to widely used self-reported...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11201 Date du document: 3 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Delavallade, Clara Anne,Das, Smita,Rouanet, Lea Marie,Clerkin, Aidan,Gonzalez, Chris,Jamison, Julian
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Command and Can’t Control : Assessing Centralized Accountability in the Public Sector (anglais)
A long-established and widely used approach to management in government has been the transmission of information up a hierarchy, and centralized decision-making and oversight; colloquially known as ‘command...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11200 Date du document: 3 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gulzar, Saad,Ladino, Juan Felipe,Mehmood, Muhammad Zia,Rogger, Daniel
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International Activity and Female Labor Participation : New Evidence for Services Firms in Developing Countries (anglais)
Using a cross-section of more than 33,000 services firms in 104 low- and middle-income countries from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys, this paper examines whether the female labor share premium of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11198 Date du document: 3 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Luna, Luis Aguilar,Winkler, Deborah Elisabeth
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Beyond Food Security : Optimizing Sustainable Healthy Diets in Ghana's Dietary Transition (anglais)
This study examines the sustainability and healthiness of Ghana's current dietary patterns and explores pathways for promoting sustainable healthy diets through agrifood policy interventions. Using secondary...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11197 Date du document: 2 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Darko, Francis Addeah,Martey, Edward
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Protectionism, Evasion and Household Welfare : Evidence from Nigeria’s Import Bans (anglais)
This paper analyzes the welfare impacts of import bans in Nigeria, and how these are shaped by evasion. Bans were not effectively enforced, and contributed to informal trade. The imposition of bans nonetheless...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11195 Date du document: 2 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Artuc, Erhan,Falcone, Guillermo Enrique,Porto, Guido,Rijkers, Bob
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Investing in Human Capital During Wartime : Experimental Evidence from Ukraine (anglais)
This paper provides insights into human capital investments during wartime by presenting evidence from three experiments of an online tutoring program for Ukrainian students amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11196 Date du document: 2 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dinarte, Lelys,Gresham, James,Lemos, Renata Freitas,Patrinos, Harry A.,Rodriguez-Ramirez, Rony
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Exploring the Impacts of Social Protection on Social Cohesion in the Sahel (anglais)
In the Sahel, vulnerability, poverty, competition over natural resources, and limited economic opportunities have weakened social bonds and fueled conflict, dynamics further exacerbated by climate change...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 204121 Date du document: 1 septembre 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: UNICEF,World Bank,World Food Program
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Shared Infrastructure for Clean Hydrogen (anglais)
Studies of the development of clean hydrogen have often focused on the production side. Infrastructure built and used for storage and transportation warrants more attention. Among the topics that should...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 204280 Date du document: 31 août 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
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Measuring the Climate Resilience of the Power Sector: Harmonization, Not Homogenization (anglais)
Although by its very nature climate resilience can never be fully “standardized”, the development and mainstreaming of climate resilience metrics can benefit from greater consensus around key topics. Areas...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 204281 Date du document: 31 août 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
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Reformando los impuestos saludables para mejorar la salud en México (espagnol)
En México se necesitan urgentemente mejoras en los impuestos selectivos al tabaco, las bebidas alcohólicas y las bebidas azucaradas para reducir las muertes prematuras evitables. En México, 125,350 personas...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 201124 Date du document: 27 août 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maldonado, Norman,Ozer, Ceren,Veillard, Jeremy
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Reforming Health Taxes to Improve Mexico’s Health (anglais)
Improvements on excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) are urgently needed in Mexico to reduce preventable premature deaths. In Mexico, 125,350 people lose their...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 201124 Date du document: 27 août 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maldonado, Norman,Ozer, Ceren,Veillard, Jeremy