Documents et rapports

Climate and Equity: A Framework to Guide Policy Action (anglais)

: Reducing the impact of climate change on poor and vulnerable households is essential to hastening poverty reduction. In thinking about policies that do this, it is useful to apply the same hazard, exposure...

Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey (AWMS) - Round 2 (anglais)

This brief provides the results of Round 2 (R2) of the Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey (AWMS). The World Bank conducted the survey from June to August 2022 to assess changes in basic living conditions...

Money versus Kudos : The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in India (anglais)

Despite growing awareness of the various limitations of electoral democracy, there is a relative lack of evidence on effective policy interventions to improve the performance of elected officials and motivate...

Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey - Round 1 (anglais)

This brief reports on the results of a household survey conducted by the World Bank in the fall of 2021 [October to December] to assess changes in basic living conditions in Afghanistan in the early days...

Measuring Employment : Experimental Evidence from Urban Ghana (anglais)

Using a randomized survey experiment in urban Ghana, this paper demonstrates that the length of the reference period and the interview modality (in person or over the phone) affect how people respond in...

Labor Supply Responses to Health Shocks : Evidence from High-Frequency Labor Market Data from Urban Ghana (anglais)

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage...

When Water Becomes a Hazard : A Diagnostic Report on The State of Water Supply, Sanitation and Poverty in Pakistan and Its Impact on Child Stunting (anglais)

Despite a substantial decline in poverty, an increase in access to water and sanitation and a large decline in open defecation, diarrhea and stunting rates in Pakistan show few signs of a decline. This...

Governing the commons? : water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin (anglais)

Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly managed by the...

Decentralization and redistribution : irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus basin (anglais)

Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge...

Decentralization and redistribution : irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin : Decentralization and redistribution : irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin (anglais)

Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan’s vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge...

Governing the commons? Water and power in Pakistan's Indus Basin (anglais)

Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly managed by the...

The impact of social mobilization on health service delivery and health outcomes : evidence from rural Pakistan (anglais)

This paper uses a randomized community development program in rural Pakistan to assess the impact of citizen engagement on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing...

Together we will : experimental evidence on female voting behavior in Pakistan (anglais)

In many emerging democracies women are less likely to vote than men and, when they do vote, are likely to follow the wishes of male household and clan heads. We assess the impact of a voter awareness campaign...

Designing wage contracts in multi-goal organizations (anglais)

Economic theory has long suggested the use of monetary incentives to motivate workers. In practice, however, public bureaucracies and nonprofit organizations are driven by a broader mission that often...

Mission and the bottom line : performance incentives in a multi-goal organization (anglais)

The impact of performance pay in institutions with multiple goals depends on complementarities in the disutility cost of effort and how different tasks interact to achieve each goal. Workers of a mission-oriented...

Mission and the bottom line : performance incentives in a multi-goal organization (anglais)

The impact of performance pay in institutions with multiple goals depends on complementarities in the disutility cost of effort and how different tasks interact to achieve each goal. Workers of a mission-oriented...

Pakistan - Capacity Building of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics : P151554 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (anglais)

Money or ideas ? : a field experiment on constraints to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan (anglais)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Money or ideas ? : a field experiment on constraints to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan conducted between 2007 and 2008...

Barriers to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan (anglais)

The note examines the extent to which lack of financial capital and lack of managerial capital inhibit the growth of small firms in rural Pakistan.

Money or ideas ? a field experiment on constraints to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan (anglais)

This paper identifies the relative importance of human and physical capital for entrepreneurship. A subset of rural microfinance clients were offered eight full time days of business training and the opportunity...