Documents et rapports

Navigating the Shadows: Unhappiness and Depression in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)

This policy brief presents an update on the state of unhappiness and depression in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the COVID-19 pandemic using findings from a large-scale phone survey...

Action Alert? Endemic Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)

This policy brief presents an update on the state of domestic violence or other violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the COVID-19 pandemic using findings from...

Unequal Scarcity: A Gendered Analysis of Food Insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)

This policy brief presents an update on the state of food security and the gender gap in food insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the COVID-19 pandemic using findings from...

Evaluating Pantawid Pamilya Using Regression Discontinuity Design : Key Results and Lessons (anglais)

The government of the Philippines decided to couple a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) evaluation of Pantawid Pamilya with a Regression Discontinuity (RD) design since sustaining a control group was undesirable...

Philippine development report : creating more and better jobs (anglais)

Accelerating inclusive growth - the type that creates more and better jobs and reduces poverty - is a key challenge for the Philippines. Instead of rising agricultural productivity paving the way for the...

Conditional cash transfers and female schooling : the impact of the female school stipend program on public school enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan (anglais)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Conditional cash transfers and female schooling : the impact of the female school stipend program on public school enrollments...

Impact of social fund on the welfare of rural households : evidence from Nepal poverty alleviation fund (anglais)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Impact of social fund on the welfare of rural households : evidence from Nepal poverty alleviation fund (PAF), conducted...

Peaceful coexistence? : the role of religious schools and NGOs in the growth of female secondary schooling in Bangladesh (anglais)

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families...

Philippines - PH-Social Welfare and Development Reform : P082144 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 04 (anglais)

Conditional cash transfers and school enrollment : impact of the conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines (anglais)

Despite modest economic growth over the past decade, the Philippines have made little progress in reducing poverty. In this regard, the Philippines is an outlier in the region, seemingly unable to translate...

Impact of social fund on the welfare of rural households : evidence from the Nepal poverty alleviation fund (anglais)

The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for groups that have traditionally been excluded...

Philippines - PH-Social Welfare and Development Reform : P082144 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 03 (anglais)

Philippines - PH-Social Welfare and Development Reform : P082144 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (anglais)

Reaching Out-Of-School Children Project : evaluation report (anglais)

The objective of this report is to evaluate the Reaching Out of School Children Project (ROSC) which has been implemented by Government of Bangladesh (GoB) since early 2005. ROSC is a unique and innovative...

Secondary school madrasas in Bangladesh : incidence, quality, and implications for reform (anglais)

This report presents findings from the first ever comprehensive survey to document the incidence and quality of secondary madrasas in Bangladesh. Analysis also draws upon other publicly available administrative...

Social interactions and student achievement in a developing country : An instrumental variables approach (anglais)

This paper identifies endogenous social effects in mathematics test performance for eighth graders in rural Bangladesh using information on arsenic contamination of water wells at home as an instrument...

Madrasas and NGOs : complements or substitutes ? non-state providers and growth in female education in Bangladesh (anglais)

There has been a proliferation of non-state providers of education services in the developing world. In Bangladesh, for instance, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee runs more than 40,000 non-formal...

Poisoning the mind : arsenic contamination and cognitive achievement of children (anglais)

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Continuous drinking of such metal-contaminated...

Conditional cash transfers and female schooling : the impact of the female school stipend program on public school enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan (anglais)

Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This...

School choice and cognitive achievement in rural Bangladesh (anglais)

This paper presents new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich data set from rural Bangladesh. The authors deal with a potentially important selectivity...