Documents et rapports

The Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban (anglais)

This paper investigates whether the 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 lowered child labor and increased school attendance and whether those effects persisted beyond...

Promoting E-commerce in Georgia : Exploring Constraints to Online Participation using Baseline Data from an Experimental Study (anglais)

E-commerce has the potential to expand market opportunities for businesses. However, it is not guaranteed. The World Development Report on Digital Dividends (World Bank 2016) highlights the importance...

Missing Information : Why Don’t More Firms Seek Out Business Advice? (anglais)

Seeking out business advice, for example through classroom training or consulting, can be a profitable investment. Previous research has found that obtaining business advice through classroom training...

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...

Small Firms Through the Pandemic : The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil (anglais)

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented shock to the private sector. Using six rounds of data from the Business Pulse Survey in the state of Sao Paulo, we document the impact on micro and...

Pequenos Negócios Durante A Pandemia : O Impacto Da Pandemia De Covid-19 Em Sao Paulo, Brasil (portugais)

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented shock to the private sector. Using six rounds of data from the Business Pulse Survey in the state of Sao Paulo, we document the impact on micro and...

Strengthening World Bank SME-Support Interventions : Operational Guidance Document (anglais)

The objective of the present SME Operational Guidance Note is to support World Bank Group task teams and client countries with the knowledge and tools required for the effective design and implementations...

Tomando o Pulso do Setor Privado : O Choque a Curto Prazo do COVID-19 nos Pequenos Negocios no Estado de Sao Paulo (Vol. 1 of 2) : Relatorio Completo (portugais)

Tomando o Pulso do Setor Privado : O Choque a Curto Prazo do COVID-19 nos Pequenos Negocios no Estado de Sao Paulo (Vol. 2 of 2) : Sumario Executivo (portugais)

Supporting Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Brazil (anglais)

What is the impact of greater teacher autonomy on student learning? This paper provides experimental evidence from a program in Brazil. The program supported teachers, through a combination of technical...

Supporting Teacher Autonomy to Improve Education Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Brazil (anglais)

Over the last three decades many countries succeeded in putting kids in school but gains in learning have been limited. Improving quality of education and learning outcomes is a priority for many countries...

The Effect of the H1N1 Pandemic on Learning. What to Expect with COVID-19? (anglais)

The analysis indicates that the extension of the winter break, adopted in 13 municipalities of the state of Sao Paulo during the H1N1 pandemic, significantly decreased learning outcome among students in...

The Effect of the H1N1 Pandemic on Learning. What to Expect with COVID-19? (portugais)

The analysis indicates that the extension of the winter break, adopted in 13 municipalities of the state of Sao Paulo during the H1N1 pandemic, significantly decreased learning outcome among students in...

Science for Impact : Better Evidence for Better Decisions – The Dime Experience (anglais)

The Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Group generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity...

Sao Paulo Development and Access to Markets Project : Impact Evaluation Report (anglais)

Aiming to foster rural development by linking smallholder producers to markets, the state of Sao Paulo and the World Bank developed the Sao Paulo Sustainable Rural Development and Access to Markets Project...

Science for impact : better evidence for better decisions (anglais)

Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i) is a multi-donor trust fund managed by Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) in the World Bank Research Group. It is designed to generate high-qualityand operationally...

Short- and long-term effects of a child-labor ban (anglais)

This is the first study to investigate the short- and long-term causal effects of a child-labor ban. The study explores the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998...

Educação Financeira no Ensino Fundamental É Uma Boa Idéia? Evidência de um Experimento Aleatório no Brasil (portugais)

The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis (anglais)

Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises are popular among policy makers, given the role small and medium enterprises play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions...

The Causal Impacts of Child Labor Law in Brazil : Some Preliminary Findings (anglais)

This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. The authors used a difference-in-differences...