Documents et rapports
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Forced displacement, Gender and Livelihoods : Refugees in Ethiopia (anglais)
This study uses the Ethiopia Skills Profile Survey (2017) to examine the gender differences in livelihood opportunities and activities between refugees and host communities. The results show a significant...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 196994 Date du document: 5 novembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Admasu, Yeshwas
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The Risk that Travels with You : Links between Forced Displacement, Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia and Liberia (anglais)
Displacement and conflict substantially heighten the risk of gender-based violence including intimate partner violence (IPV), experienced by women and girls. This study aims to examine the links between...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 196993 Date du document: 5 novembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kelly, Jocelyn,Ekhator-Mobayode, Uche,Hanmer, Lucia C.,Rubin, Amalia,Diana Jimena Arango
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Corruption and Government Revenue : Evidence of a Non-linear Relationship Driven by Crises (anglais)
A large body of literature studies the relationship between corruption and economic outcomes, including government revenue mobilization, but there is little evidence on how this relationship changes during...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 197014 Date du document: 22 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zeljko Bogetic,Dominik Naeher
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The Sounds of Development : Musical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge (anglais)
The experience of development, as well as understandings of and responses to it, are uniquely rendered via popular culture generally, and popular music. Music has been a medium of choice through which...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 168172 Date du document: 12 janvier 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lewis, David,Rodgers,Dennis William,Woolcock,Michael
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Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets : A Framed Field Experiment (anglais)
Improving rural credit markets requires a good understanding of the root causes of market failures and taking necessary steps to address them. This paper investigates the role of productivity shocks in...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 157789 Date du document: 1 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Adjognon,Guigonan Serge,Liverpool Tasie,Lenis Saweda Onipede,Shupp, Robert
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Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement : Introduction to a Special Issue (anglais)
Effective social protection is increasingly as essential to supporting affected populations in situations of protracted instability and displacement. Despite the growing use of social protection in these...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 145816 Date du document: 6 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruck,Tilman,Cuesta Leiva,Jose Antonio,De Hoop,Jacobus Joost,Gentilini,Ugo,Peterman,Amber
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How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems? : Evidence from Humanitarian and Development Approaches in Niger (anglais)
he methods used to identify the beneficiaries of programs aiming to address persistent poverty and shocks are subject to frequent policy debates. Relying on panel data from Niger, this report simulates...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 145819 Date du document: 6 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schnitzer,Pascale
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Estimating the Welfare Costs of Reforming the Iraq Public Distribution System : A Mixed Demand Approach (anglais)
Through three decades of conflict, food rations delivered through the public distribution system (PDS) have remained the largest safety net among Iraq’s population. Reforming the PDS continues to be politically...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 145817 Date du document: 6 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Krishnan,Nandini,Olivieri,Sergio Daniel,Mohamed,Racha Ramadan Mohamed
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Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms (anglais)
The authors contribute to the technology, skills and jobs debate by exploiting a novel dataset for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 144309 Date du document: 10 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Viollaz,Mariana
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Review article : transport policies and development (anglais)
This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transportinvestments and policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. It...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 115263 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berg,Claudia N.,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Liu,Yishen,Selod,Harris
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Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status (anglais)
Global, national and local policies and programs for agricultural development arerecurrently justified based on their alleged role in improving food and nutrition security.However, strikingly little evidence...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 102498 Date du document: 24 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carletto,Calogero,Ruel, Marie,Winters,Paul Conal,Zezza,Alberto
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The heterogeneous effects of a food price crisis on child school enrolment and labor : evidence from Pakistan (anglais)
Using a panel survey, this paper investigates how food price increase in Pakistan in 2008–2010affects children’s school enrollment and labor. The causal identification relies on thegeographical variations...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 104049 Date du document: 11 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hou,Xiaohui,Hong,Seo Yeon,Scott,Kinnon
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Informality and profitability : evidence from a new firm survey in Ecuador (anglais)
This paper estimates the impact of informality on profits using a new survey administered to 1,200 firms with less than 50 employees in four cities in Ecuador. The paper presents a novel definition of...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100192 Date du document: 13 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Medvedev,Denis,Oviedo Silva,Ana Maria
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Evaluating the impacts of public student subsidies to low-cost private schools in Pakistan (anglais)
The authors examine the impacts of accountability-based public per-student subsidies provided to low-cost private schools in Punjab, Pakistan on student enrollment and school inputs. Program entry is contingent...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100211 Date du document: 5 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Raju,Dhushyanth
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A retrospective impact evaluation of the Tamil Nadu empowerment and poverty alleviation (pudhu vaazhvu) project (anglais)
Community based livelihood interventions, which focus directly on increasing income and employment, have become an increasingly important component of large-scale poverty reduction programs. The authors...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100200 Date du document: 1 juillet 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khanna,Madhulika,Kochhar,Nishtha,Palaniswamy,Nethra
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Democracy and the distribution of NGOs promoting renewable energy in Africa (anglais)
Roughly 60 percent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation, small-scale...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100259 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: MacLean, Lauren M.,Brass, Jennifer N.,Carley, Sanya,El-Arini,Ashraf Bakry,Breen, Scott
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Estimating the effects of conflict on education in Cote d'Ivoire (anglais)
This paper evaluates the effect of armed conflict on years of schooling in Cote d'Ivoire. The authors combine differences in conflict intensity across departments and differences across age cohorts to...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94657 Date du document: 14 décembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dabalen,Andrew L.,Paul,Saumik
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Identifying spatial efficiency-equity trade-offs in territorial development policies : evidence from Uganda (anglais)
The authors contribute to the debate on the spatial allocation of infrastructure investments by examining where these investments generate the highest economic return (spatial efficiency), and identifying...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94650 Date du document: 13 décembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lall,Somik V.,Schmidt,Emily M.,Schroeder,Elizabeth
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What do household surveys really tell us about risk, shocks, and risk management in the developing world? (anglais)
The authors report on a project to explore empirical patterns in risk, shocks and risk management using recent household surveys with risk modules from 16 different developing countries. Natural disasters...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100254 Date du document: 2 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Oviedo, Ana María,Talukdar,Faiyaz
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An assessment of the impacts of Sri Lanka's program for school improvement and school report card program on students' academic progress (anglais)
This paper examines two education programs in Sri Lanka, the program for school improvement (PSI), which decentralizes decision-making power, and the school report card program (SRCP), which was designed...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94649 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Glewwe,Paul W.,Ravina, Renato,Sonnadara, Upal,Wisniewski,Suzanne L. W.