Documents et rapports
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Firm-Level Climate Change Adaptation : Micro Evidence from 134 Nations (anglais)
Are firms adapting to climate change? This paper studies this question by combining geocoded World Bank Enterprise Survey data with spatially granular weather data to estimate temperature response functions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11081 Date du document: 10 mars 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Claudia N. Berg,Bettarelli,Luca,Furceri,Davide,Ganslmeier,Michael,Arti Grover,Megan Elizabeth Lang,Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
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Weather Shocks and Rural Economic Linkages : Evidence from Rajasthan’s Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Sectors (anglais)
This study examines the complex relationships between rainfall shocks, agricultural productivity, and rural economic activity in Rajasthan, India’s largest state. Using district-level agricultural data...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11079 Date du document: 3 mars 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis Addeah Darko,Akankshita Dey,Ritadhi,S. K.
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Rural Non-Farm Employment in Rajasthan : Determinants, Welfare Effects, and Enterprise Performance (anglais)
This paper examines rural non-farm employment in Rajasthan, India, using multiple surveys and administrative data. The analysis covers three key aspects: individual and district-level determinants of participation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11080 Date du document: 3 mars 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis Addeah Darko,Akankshita Dey,Ritadhi,S. K.
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Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection : The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data (anglais)
Biodiversity is essential for ecological stability, human well-being, and economic progress, providing critical ecosystem services such as clean water, food, and climate regulation. However, it faces unprecedented...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11076 Date du document: 27 février 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brian Blankespoor,Susmita Dasgupta,Wheeler,David
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Effects of a Community-Driven Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention on Diarrhea, Child Growth, and Local Institutions : A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Democratic Republic of Congo (anglais)
Diarrhea and growth faltering in early childhood reduce survival and impair neurodevelopment. This paper assesses whether a national program in the Democratic Republic of Congo reduced diarrhea and stunting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11070 Date du document: 19 février 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Quattrochi, John P,Croke,Kevin,Caleb Jeremie Dohou,Luca Stanus Ghib,Yannick Bokasola Lokaya,Aidan Coville,Mvukiyehe,Eric
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Fixing Nitrogen : Agricultural Productivity, Environmental Fragility, and the Role of Subsidies (anglais)
Nitrogen fertilizer is essential for boosting agricultural yields and food production. However, agricultural subsidies often drive the inefficient application of fertilizer, leading to significant costs...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11050 Date du document: 28 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Esha Dilip Zaveri
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Gender Bias, Citizen Participation, and AI (anglais)
This paper investigates the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence–driven analyses of citizen participation, using data from the 2023 Latinobarómetro Survey. The paper proposes that gender bias—whether...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11046 Date du document: 27 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva,Natalia Pecorari
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Implementing 30x30 : Lessons from Country Case Studies (anglais)
The publication of nearly 600,000 new species occurrence maps using Global Biodiversity Information Facility data provides an opportunity to reassess international species protection with broader representation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11045 Date du document: 24 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Susmita Dasgupta,Brian Blankespoor,Wheeler,David
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Global expansion of marine protected areas and the redistribution of fishing effort (anglais)
The expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) is a core focus of global conservation efforts, with the “30x30” initiative to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 serving as a prominent example of this trend...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11030 Date du document: 10 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: McDonald, Gavin,Bone, Jennifer,Costello,Christopher,Gabriel Englander,Raynor,Jennifer
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Impact of Temperature Uncertainty on Firm Growth : A Grid-Level Analysis (anglais)
This study examines the impact of temperature uncertainty on firm fixed capital growth using a unique dataset that merges extensive firm-level financial data with detailed grid-level weather data. The...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11020 Date du document: 8 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yang,Jangho,Christian Schoder
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Agricultural Windfalls and Electrification (anglais)
This paper studies how windfalls from agriculture influence demand for electrification in a developing country. Leveraging two decades of administrative data on the universe of electricity grid customers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11019 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Andrew L. Dabalen,Justice Tei Mensah,Nsabimana,Aimable,Nshunguyinka,Alexandre
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Conserving Wildlife through Demand Reduction and Supply Alternatives : Two Experiments in Restaurants in Kinshasa (anglais)
High aggregate levels of wildlife consumption in Central African cities may be depleting wildlife populations. This study explores the impacts of demand and supply-side interventions on wild meat consumption...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11016 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cisse,Abdoulaye,Gabriel Englander,Ingram,Daniel J.
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The Mismeasure of Weather : Using Remotely Sensed Earth Observation Data in Economic Contexts (anglais)
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11015 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Josephson,Anna,Michler,Jeffrey D.,Talip Kilic,Siobhan Murray
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Crops, Conflict and Climate Change (anglais)
This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The underlying model is...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11018 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Erhan Artuc,Porto,Guido,Bob Rijkers
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Land Price Effects of Informality, Farm Size, and Land Reform : Evidence from More Than One Million Transactions in Ukraine (anglais)
This paper uses a rich set of geo-coded administrative and remotely sensed data on more than 1 million agricultural land transactions in Ukraine to explore how informality, size, and recent land reforms...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11013 Date du document: 30 décembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Klaus W. Deininger,Daniel Ayalew Ali
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Climate Shocks and Their Effects on Food Security, Prices, and Agricultural Wages in Afghanistan (anglais)
This study examines the effects of climate and weather shocks on Afghanistan's agricultural economy, with an emphasis on food security, prices, and wages. By utilizing a dynamical model and a unique data...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10999 Date du document: 12 décembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tosin Kolajo Gbadegesin,Bo Pieter Johannes Andree,Ademola Braimoh
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Yield Growth Patterns of Food Commodities : Insights and Challenges (anglais)
Understanding global food production and productivity patterns is crucial for policy and in-vestment decisions aimed at addressing poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. This pa-per develops comprehensive...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10990 Date du document: 2 décembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: John Baffes,Etienne,Xiaoli
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The Potential Cascading Impacts of Climate Change in Cambodia (anglais)
This paper develops a “plausible worst-case” scenario for Cambodia to illustrate how a severe, 1-in-10-year flood could trigger cascading impacts, including widespread disease outbreaks and financial instability...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10983 Date du document: 25 novembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hector Pollitt,Migle Petrauskaite
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The Timing versus Allocation Trade-off in Politically Constrained Climate Policies (anglais)
When leaders face political economy constraints, is it best to delay all decarbonization initiatives until a sectorally coordinated strategy can be implemented, or is it preferable to implement an approach...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10971 Date du document: 7 novembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Adam Michael Bauer,Stephane Hallegatte,Florent McIsaac
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Weathering Shocks : Unraveling the Effects of Short-Term Weather Shocks on Poverty in Paraguay (anglais)
In Paraguay, poverty reduction has stalled since 2014 due to a deceleration in economic growth, which has been argued to be partly due to a series of climate-related events. Nevertheless, little is known...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10970 Date du document: 6 novembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Teresa Janz,Gassmann,Franziska,de Ervin,Lyliana Gayoso