Documents et rapports

Sensibilidad de poblaciones vulnerables a cambios en las tarifas del transporte público y diferencias de género: El caso de Bogotá (espagnol)

El transporte público es la base de los sistemas de transporte en centros urbanos con alta densidad poblacional, sobre todo en las ciudades que ya tienen —o están desarrollando— sistemas relativamente...

Movilidad y bienestar de poblaciones vulnerables en Bogotá : brechas de género en la movilidad urbana (espagnol)

En las grandes ciudades de los países de ingreso bajo y mediano, las poblaciones vulnerables frecuentemente enfrentan problemas para acceder a servicios y a oportunidades económicas debido a las desventajas...

Building Resilient Livelihoods : The Enduring Impacts of Afghanistan's Targeting the Ultra-Poor Program (anglais)

Between 2018 and 2021, the country was beset by multiple crises: severe droughts in 2018 and 2021, escalating violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic, fundamentally affected Afghans' livelihoods, creating...

The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (anglais)

How do proven strategies to improve the economic conditions of ultra-poor households hold up against the increasing severity and co-incidence of economic, security, and climate shocks? Five years after...

The Unintended Consequences of Curfews on Road Safety (anglais)

During COVID-19, curfews spread like wildfire. Although their impact on curbing the spread of disease remains to be proven, curfews have the potential to bring about costs to society in multiple domains...

Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets (anglais)

This paper presents results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly...

Program Targeting with Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data (anglais)

Each year, billions of dollars are spent on targeted social protection programs. While these programs are often designed to provide support to the poorest households, identifying eligible households within...

Program Targeting with Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data : Evidence from an Anti-Poverty Intervention in Afghanistan (anglais)

Can mobile phone data improve program targeting? By combining rich survey data from the baseline of a “big push” anti-poverty program in Afghanistan implemented in 2016 with detailed mobile phone logs...

Police Electronic Crash Records and Analytics : Lessons from a Pilot in Nairobi (anglais)

Governments around the world are leveraging the power of technology in transformative ways to realize the promise of digital government: improving public service delivery, administration, and social value...

Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections - Impact Evaluation Policy Brief (anglais)

In Peru, business safety inspections, related to the risk of fire and collapse, which affect all businesses in the country, are characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. This can...

Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections (anglais)

In collaboration with the ministry of housing, construction, and sanitation and the municipality of Lima in Peru, the authors used a randomized experiment to test whether intensive monitoring of inspectors...

The Impact of Electronic Recording of Business Inspections on Compliance with Regulatory Standards and Inspectors’ Performance (anglais)

In Peru, the business safety inspection process, a requirement to obtain an operating license, is characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. These inefficiencies disproportionally...

DIME LAC PROGRAM (anglais)

Major technological changes in the production and analysis of data have opened opportunities to transform the way we use integrated high-frequency data ecosystems and advanced analytical tools, notably...

Applying Machine Learning and Geolocation Techniques to Social Media Data (Twitter) to Develop a Resource for Urban Planning (anglais)

With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult to obtain in most of the world. This project set out to test whether an openly available...

Urban Planning? : I Spy Crashes (anglais)

Road traffic crashes (RTC) are the number one cause of death for children and young adults ages 5-29 years. On average, only seventeen percent of road traffic deaths are estimated to be reported in the...

Safety First : Improving Access to Quality Health Services in Kenya, Expanding Global Knowledge on Disease Prevention (anglais)

KePSIE is the largest randomized control trial on patient safety in any low- and middle-income setting, covering the census of 1,258 health facilities (private and public), serving 4.5 million individuals...

Regulation for Safety and Quality of Care : A Process Evaluation of the Health Inspection Pilots of the Kenya Patient Safety Impact Evaluation (anglais)

The largest randomized control trial on patient safety standards in any low- and middle-income country, conducted in Kenya, shows that regulation on minimum patient safety standards for all types of facilities...

Less Burden, More Transparency, and Higher Quality : Electronic System for Business Safety Inspections in Peru (anglais)

Business safety inspections are commonly cited as one of the most important bureaucratic barriers to doing business around the developing world (World Bank 2019, 2020). In Peru, the business safety inspection...

Supporting Vulnerable Health Systems Improve Infection Prevention and Control to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic (anglais)

Protecting healthcare workers and patients is critical to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus). In this brief we highlight three urgent actions : Distribution of infection prevention and control...

Smart and Safe Kenya Transport (SMARTTRANS) (anglais)