Documents et rapports

Energy Subsidy Reform in Action : Cash Transfers in the Context of Energy Subsidy Reform - Insights from Recent Experience : Technical Report (anglais)

Energy subsidies, which have a long history of use by governments around the world, have been rising in recent years after a brief period of decline. Despite their significant wider costs, subsidies are...

What Are the Benefits of Government Assistance with Household Energy Bills ? Evidence from Ukraine (anglais)

In April 2015, the Government of Ukraine abruptly raised the tariffs of natural gas to residential customers, which were previously well below the cost of acquiring gas and delivering it to households...

Concept Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Belarus COVID-19 Social Safety Nets Response - P174400 (anglais)

Concept Project Information Document (PID) - Belarus COVID-19 Social Safety Nets Response - P174400 (anglais)

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Greek Social Solidarity Income (anglais)

This note presents the results of the evaluation of the Greek Social Solidarity Income (SSI) program, a last resort safety net program targeted to extremely poor households with the objective of alleviating...

Towards a More Effective and Fiscally Sustainable Public Sector for Ukraine : Second Public Finance Review (anglais)

This Second Programmatic Public Finance Review (PFR-2) supports Ukraine in implementing its ongoing ambitious structural reform agenda to identify fiscal savings and to increase the effectiveness of public...

Live long and prosper : aging in East Asia and Pacific (anglais)

The population in East Asia and Pacific is aging rapidly, raising concerns about the implications for the region’s economic future. This report aims to crystallize what is known about the rapidly changing...

Live long and prosper : aging in East Asia and Pacific (chinois)

The population in East Asia and Pacific is aging rapidly, raising concerns about the implications for the region’s economic future. This report aims to crystallize what is known about the rapidly changing...

Unconditional cash transfers in China : an analysis of the rural minimum living standard guarantee program (anglais)

This paper examines China’s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published...

Adjusting to a changing world (anglais)

In the six months since the previous East Asia and Pacific economic update, the regional economic landscape has been dominated by two key developments in the global economy. First, there has been a sustained...

Macroeconomic implications of aging in East Asia Pacific : demography, labor markets and productivity (anglais)

Any guarantees? : China's rural minimum living standard guarantee program (anglais)

This paper examines China's rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest targeted transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative...

Eligibility thresholds for minimum living guarantee programs : international practices and implications for China (anglais)

Using a simple framework, this paper discusses the underlying reason of the variation of threshold level in developed countries, from the least generous 20 percent to around 60 percent of median wage...

East Asia and Pacific economic update, October 2013 : rebuilding policy buffers, reinvigorating growth (anglais)

Global growth momentum accelerated during the second and third quarters of 2013, while many downside risks lingered in the background. Strengthening of global growth momentum will help developing East...

Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar (anglais)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar, conducted between 1999 and 2002 in Madagascar...

Timor-Leste - Social assistance public expenditure and program performance report (anglais)

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict nation endowed with significant oil revenues. Timor-Leste has one of the highest birth rates in the world (2.41 percent population growth)...

Labor market issues in Timor Leste : current state, prospects and challenges (anglais)

Among the different developmental priorities in Timor?Leste a policy focus on the jobs agenda for improving living standards and social stability is crucial. Currently, over 44 percentage of the population...

Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia (anglais)

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model estimated by local instrumental variables, and data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey...

Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar (anglais)

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a...

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...