Documents et rapports

Contextualizing Urban Social Protection in Bangladesh : Social Protection and Jobs – South Asia Region (anglais)

Pakistan - Assessment of Civil Service Pensions (anglais)

This report was prepared at the request in mid-2018 of the Secretaries of Finance for the Pakistan Federal Ministry of Finance, the Sindh Ministry of Finance and Punjab Ministry of Finance. Missions visited...

Returns to education in the economic transition : a systematic assessment using comparable data (anglais)

This paper examines the assertion that returns to schooling increase as an economy transitions to a market environment. This claim has been difficult to assess as existing empirical evidence covers only...

Poverty and social impact analysis of reforms : Lessons and examples from implementation (anglais)

Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is an approach used increasingly by governments, civil society organizations, the World Bank, and other development partners to examine the distributional impacts...

Analyzing the distributional impact of reforms : a practitioner's guide to trade, monetary and exchange rate policy, utility provision, agricultural markets, land policy, and education (Vol. 2 of 2) : Analyzing the distributional impact of reforms (anglais)

The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, particularly on the poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration...

How does the composition of public spending matter? (anglais)

Public spending has effects which are complex to trace and difficult to quantify. But the composition of public expenditure has become the key instrument by which development agencies seek to promote economic...

Analyzing the distributional impact of reforms : a practitioner's guide to trade, monetary and exchange rate policy, utility provision, agricultural markets, land policy, and education (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, particularly on the poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration...

Willingness to pay for water and energy: an introductory guide to contingent valuation and coping cost techniques (anglais)

In order to determine the impact of many water and energy reforms, analysts need to elicit the preferences of users and their demand for the goods in question. When these goods are not routinely bought...

The returns to participation in the non-farm sector in rural Rwanda (anglais)

In this paper, we investigate the differences in outcomes (earnings and consumption) between individuals (households) who participate in the non-farm sector and those who do not. We use propensity score...

Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country - Madagascar 2001 (anglais)

The authors analyze the subjective perceptions of poverty in Madagascar in 2001 and their relationship to objective poverty indicators. They base their analysis on survey responses to a series of subjective...

Macro and micro perspectives of growth and poverty in Africa (anglais)

This article reviews trends in poverty, economic policies, and growth in a sample of African countries during the 1990s, drawing on the better household data now available. Experiences have varied. Some...

Individual attitudes toward corruption: do social effects matter? (anglais)

Using individual-level data for 35 countries, the authors investigate the microeconomic determinants of attitudes toward corruption. They find women, employed, less wealthy, and older individuals to be...

The World Bank economic review 17 (3) (anglais)

Macro and micro perspectives of growth and poverty in Africa; by Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery, and Stefano Paternostro. Risk sharing in labor markets; by Arne Bigsten, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon...

Growth, distribution, and poverty in Africa - messages from the 1990s (anglais)

This book synthesizes, and elaborates on the results of a series of country studies, completed under the Poverty Dynamics in Africa Initiative, organized by the Africa Region of the Bank. These studies...

Changes in poverty in Madagascar : 1993 - 1999 (anglais)

This paper takes advantage of nationally representative cross-sectional household data sets from 1993, 1997, and 1999, to examine changes in poverty in Madagascar. The authors find that poverty in this...

Wage determination and gender discrimination in a transition economy : the case of Romania (anglais)

The authors analyze wage determination and gender discrimination in Romania using the 1994 Romanian Household survey. They estimate wages for men and women in urban and rural areas using a Heckman selection...

Poverty and the economic transition : how do changes in economies of scale affect poverty rates for different households? (Vol. 1 of 4) (anglais)

Much attention has been paid to the relative vulnerability of two well-defined household groups during the transition. Some observers argue that old-age pensioner households have been relatively protected...

Structural adjustment, ownership transformation, and size in Polish industry (anglais)

The authors argue that significant adjustment took place in Polish industry after Poland's 1990 reforms. They analyze data on two- and three-digit manufacturing industries, disaggregated by firm ownership...