Documents et rapports

The Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits...

Can We Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Hazards? Evidence from Five South East Asian Countries (anglais)

This paper utilizes Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods and typhoons in five South East Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the...

Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia (anglais)

A forward-looking measure of “vulnerability to poverty” is estimated and a concerted effort is made to understand the sources of vulnerability in the drought-prone lowlands of Ethiopia. Using the Household...

World Bank Equity Policy Lab (EPL) Vulnerability Tool to Measure Poverty Risk (anglais)

Vulnerability to poverty refers to the likelihood that a household or an individual may fall below the poverty line in the event of a shock. Understanding vulnerability helps design policies to protect...

Child Stature, Maternal Education, and Early Childhood Development (anglais)

This paper uses Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys data from the Republic of Congo and São Tomé and Príncipe to study the relationships between child stature, mother's years of education, and indicators...

Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data (anglais)

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child, mother, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to design a prototype drought-contingent...

Realizing Demographic Dividends in the Republic of Congo (anglais)

Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data (anglais)

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique...

Can We Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Disasters ? (anglais)

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and typhoons in five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines...

All Hands on Deck : Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the scale of undernutrition is staggering; 58 million children under the age of five are too short for their age (stunted), and 14 million weighs too little for their height (wasted)...

Identifying the Vulnerable to Poverty from Natural Disasters : The Case of Typhoons in the Philippines (anglais)

This paper builds on the existing literature assessing retrospectively the quantitative effects of natural disasters on different dimensions of household welfare, to make progress toward the ex ante identification...

Identifying the Vulnerable to Poverty from Natural Disasters : The Case of Typhoons in the Philippines (anglais)

Poverty and Vulnerability in the Ethiopian Lowlands : Building a More Resilient Future (anglais)

This study responds to a request in March 2018 by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC), to the World Bank and Department for International Development (DfID) to carry out a study of...

The Chronology of a Disaster : A Review and Assessment of the Value of Acting Early on Household Welfare (anglais)

When shocks strike they have an immediate and direct impact on life, income, and assets.Two strands of literature can be usefully brought together to generate some initial indicative estimates of the timing...

Federal Spending on Social Assistance Programs in Brazil : Background Chapter of the 2018 Expenditure Review : A Fair Adjustment : Efficiency and Equity of Public Spending in Brazil (anglais)

The development of Brazil’s modern social safety net is quite recent, and social assistance programs claim a relatively small share of resources of the broader social sector. A key feature of the Brazilian...

Reducing inequalities in water supply, sanitation, and hygiene in the era of the sustainable development goals synthesis report of the WASH poverty diagnostic initiative : Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals (anglais)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank’s corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity call for specific attention to the poor and vulnerable. The overarching...

The reallocation of district-level spending and natural disasters : evidence from Indonesia (anglais)

This paper combines district-level government spending data from Indonesia and natural disaster damage indices to analyze the extent to which districts are forced to reallocate their expenditures across...

Natural disaster damage indices based on remotely sensed data: an application to Indonesia (anglais)

Combining nightlight data as a proxy for economic activity with remote sensing data typically used for natural hazard modeling, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district level for Indonesia...

Safeguarding against a reversal in social gains during the economic crisis in Brazil (portugais)

This note summarizes the findings of the analysis carried out regarding the poverty and inequality impacts of the ongoing economic crisis in Brazil in 2016 and 2017. The first objective is to get an estimate...

Safeguarding against a reversal in social gains during the economic crisis in Brazil (anglais)

This note summarizes the findings of the analysis carried out regarding the poverty and inequality impacts of the ongoing economic crisis in Brazil in 2016 and 2017. The first objective is to get an estimate...