The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is expected to drastically slow 2020 GDP per capita growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by about 5 percentage points compared to pre-pandemic forecasts. This note presents...
Skilled and motivated personnel are arguably the most important determinant of an effective government. How does a government recruit the best and the brightest? This Governance Note examines different...
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) has rapidly expanded to become the largest social protection and human development program in the Philippines. Over the last decade, the evolution...
This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments. Women make a crucial contribution...
Transport was not part of the millennium development goals (MDGs) for 2000-15, which were adopted at the United Nations in September 2000. The omission was widely viewed in the transport community as a...
The highlights on Conflict to peace describes the importance of Post-conflict cash benefitsare necessary to restore social balances after longperiods of civil unrest orwar and are part of there conciliation...
This note discusses one of a number of recent impact evaluations of business training programs. Further reading provides a link to a critical overview of this new literature.
Business services are generally provided on a private sector basis and require a high level of skills that are usually certified. Business services include accounting, architectural, engineering, legal...
This paper is a product of the energy, transport, and water department of the World Bank. It is part of a broader study aimed at assessing the overall performance of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)...
New private activity continued to take place in developing countries in Aug-Nov 2008 with projects being developed, tendered, and taken to financial close, but at a rate that was about 40 percent lower...
Utility subsidies to consumers of water and electricity services are often justified as a mechanism for making services affordable for the poor. After all, an estimated 1.1 billion people in the developing...
A project in the Mexican state of Guanajuato shows how tying disbursements to specific outputs can provide incentives for effective implementation of a water sector strategy. The disbursements, from pooled...
Communities supported by World Bank rural development projects often cite support for the development of income-generating activities (IGAs) as a critical need. This note identifies some of the core problems...
To be successful, Social Safety Net (SSN) programs require three elements of policy design: technical correctness, administrative feasibility and political viability; yet the politically supportable aspect...
To be successful, Social Safety Net (SSN) programs require three elements of policy design: technical correctness, administrative feasibility and political viability; yet the politically supportable aspect...
To be successful, Social Safety Net (SSN) programs require three elements of policy design: technical correctness, administrative feasibility and political viability; yet the politically supportable aspect...
This note looks at micro-credit as one element among many on a menu of possible interventions to generate income and employment, and alleviate poverty, including temporary poverty in post-crisis situations...
Le présent document examine le microcrédit comme l’un des nombreux éléments dans l’éventail d’interventions possibles permettant de générer revenus et emplois, et de réduire la pauvreté, y compris la pauvreté...
This note looks at micro-credit as one element among many on a menu of possible interventions to generate income and employment, and alleviate poverty, including temporary poverty in post-crisis situations...
This note looks at micro-credit as one element among many on a menu of possible interventions to generate income and employment, and alleviate poverty, including temporary poverty in post-crisis situations...