In 2020, Jobs Group extended the Jobs Multi-donor Trust Fund (MDTF) to Phase Two with support from the donors and the Jobs Steering Committee (JSC). In this phase, Jobs MDTF retains its original objectives...
A decade after the first spark of the Arab Spring, large shares of healthy and capable working-age populations remain excluded from the labor force and employment altogether in the Middle East and North...
The Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF) began operations in March 2015 and brought together all WBG trust-funded activities on the Jobs agenda under a single umbrella. Since the inception of the Jobs MDTF, its...
The Jobs Umbrella Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF) is a financing instrument that supports the World Bank Group`s (WBG) jobs strategy to contribute to the twin goals of reducing poverty and ensuring inclusive...
This Jobs Solutions Note identifies approaches for practitioners and policymakers to proactively adapt policies and development programs to accelerated technological change. Based on curated knowledge...
The forthcoming World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away...
The quality of the public procurement system of an economy can have far-reaching effects on the private sector. This paper empirically explores several of these effects using two rich data sets. An overall...
Public-private partnership (PPP) projects are gaining momentum globally as a means for delivering infrastructure. Government capabilities to prepare, procure, and manage such projects are important to...
Public-private partnership (PPP) projects are gaining momentum globally as a means for delivering infrastructure. Government capabilities to prepare, procure, and manage such projects are important to...
The forthcoming World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away...
Public procurement regulation is an important instrument for using public resources efficiently and ensuring quality services to citizens. On average, the public procurement sector accounts for 14.5 percent...
The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for...
Despite the importance of the public procurement market, little effort has been made to systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt...
Despite the importance of the public procurement market, little effort has been made to systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt...
Benchmarking public procurement focuses on an equally critical aspect of procurement systems for private sector participation: a well-functioning complaint system. Efficient complaint mechanisms introduce...
This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data...
This is analytical note 6 supporting the International Finance Corporation's jobs report in 2012. Enterprise surveys data for more than 45,000 firms in 106 countries show that firms in the services sector...
This is analytical note 4 supporting the International Finance Corporation's jobs report in 2012. Among economies covered by World Bank Group enterprise surveys, firms in capital or large cities experienced...
This is analytical note 2 supporting the International Finance Corporation's jobs report in 2012. World Bank Group enterprise surveys data shows that small firms in developing countries have increased...
This is analytical note 1 supporting the International Finance Corporation's jobs report in 2012. The importance of small businesses to job creation has been part of the economic policy narrative since...