Documents et rapports

Responsibility Sharing and the Economic Participation of Refugees in Chad (anglais)

The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the...

Comparing Internally Displaced Persons with Those Left Behind : Evidence from the Central African Republic (anglais)

Global poverty is increasingly becoming concentrated in conflict-affected settings. Therefore, assessing the welfare of those people displaced by conflict is of growing policy importance. Collecting and...

The Costs Come before the Benefits: Why Donors Should Invest More in Refugee Autonomy in Uganda (anglais)

When host countries allow refugees to earn income, two main groups benefit: refugees, who become financially autonomous, and international institutions that can reduce the humanitarian aid that would otherwise...

Microdata Collection and Openness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : Introducing the MENA Microdata Access Indicator (anglais)

This paper uses a “mystery client” approach and visits the websites of national statistical offices and international microdata libraries to assess whether foundational microdata sets for countries in...

Djibouti Economic Monitor : Navigating through the Pandemic and Regional Tensions (anglais)

Severely impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, Djibouti’s economic activity has shown signs of recovery in 2021.This first edition of the Djibouti Economic Monitor (DEM) launches a program...

Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region (anglais)

COVID-19 is one of multiple crises to have hit the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the decade following the Arab Spring. War, oil price declines, economic slowdowns and now a pandemic are...

Addressing Informality in Egypt (anglais)

Informal jobs are often bad jobs, unproductive, poorly paid, risky, and unprotected. Informal firms perform poorly than their formal counterparts in terms of firm productivity, growth, and job creation...

High Frequency Mobile Phone Surveys of Households to Assess the Impacts of COVID-19 (Vol. 2 of 5) : Guidelines on Sampling Design (anglais)

High Frequency Mobile Phone Surveys of Households to Assess the Impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is a series that is an overview of a global initiative by the World Bank. The global initiative is  to...

Data Collection in Fragile States : Innovations from Africa and Beyond (anglais)

The world is becoming less safe and peaceful. According to the 2018 Global Peace Index prepared by the Institute for Economics and Peace, 42 countries experienced an increase in the intensity of internal...

Can Public Works Enhance Welfare in Fragile Economies? : The Londo Program in the Central African Republic (anglais)

We evaluated the Londo public works program, which provided temporary employment and a bicycle to beneficiaries selected through public lotteries in the Central African Republic. The evaluation focused...

Les Programmes D'Argent Contre Travail Ameliorent-Ils le Bien-Etre Dans les Economies Fragiles? Le Projet Londo en Republique Centrafricaine (français)

Le projet Londö d’argent contre travail fournit un emploi temporaire et une bicyclette aux gagnants de loteries à grande échelle organisées dans toute la République centrafricaine (RCA). L’évaluation se...

Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa : Learning from Togo (anglais)

Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not...

Concept Project Information Document (PID) - National Programme for Improving the Quality of Statistics in India - P169497 (anglais)

Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - National Programme for Improving the Quality of Statistics in India - P169497 (anglais)

Assessing the poverty footprint of World Bank projects at sub-national levels (anglais)

Every year, the World Bank spends millions of dollars on development projects in its member countries. But do these investments reach the poor? This note presents a spatial approach to examine the poverty...

Iterative Beneficiary Monitoring : An Adaptive Approach to Enhancing the Implementation of World Bank Projects (anglais)

Putting a project into practice is challenging and at times a disconnect exists between what is aspired to in project documents and what happens on the ground. To help project managers ensure that projects...

Cahiers Economiques de la République Centrafricaine : Briser le Cycle des Conflits et de l'Instabilité (français)

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Central African Republic economic update: breaking the cycle of conflict and instability (anglais)

A deteriorating security and humanitarian situation is dimming hopes for a robust economic recovery in the Central African Republic (CAR). The government continued to implement its fiscal consolidation...

Leaving, staying, or coming back ? migration decisions during the northern Mali conflict (anglais)

This paper uses a unique data set to analyze the migration dynamics of refugees, returnees, and internally displaced people during the Northern Mali conflict. Individuals were interviewed monthly using...

Leaving, staying, or coming back? : migration decisions during the northern Mali conflict (anglais)

This paper uses a unique data set to analyze the migration dynamics of refugees, returnees, and internally displaced people during the northern Mali conflict. Individuals were interviewed monthly using...