Documents et rapports

Territorial Inequalities : A Note on State Discontinuity (anglais)

When the state does not reach with the same effectiveness everybody and everywhere, it creates pockets of exclusions and hampers the opportunities of individuals belonging to the excluded groups to participate...

Industrial Policy under Constraints: Evidence from Pakistan’s Export Subsidy Schemes (anglais)

This paper investigates the impact of an export promotion policy consisting of ad-valorem subsidies for a set of targeted products, on the performance of Pakistani exports in the textile sector. The findings...

Lying to the Taxman or Accepting a Helping Hand ? Evidence from a Novel Experiment on SMEs in Tanzania (anglais)

This paper presents the results from a novel field experiment that examined the impact of in- creasing the presence of revenue authority officers on tax compliance and tax morale among small and medium-size...

Exploring Geospatial-Based Approaches to Develop a Pre-Census National Sampling Frame in Armenia (anglais)

The lack of a workable and accurate national sampling frame is one of the methodological constraints in conducting representative national surveys. It undermines policy and research efforts in many developing...

Do Bilateral Labor Agreements Increase Migration ? Global Evidence from 1960 to 2020 (anglais)

This paper estimates the impact of bilateral labor arrangements on migration between two countries. It uses comprehensive data on bilateral migration and bilateral labor agreements across all country pairs...

Strengthening African Regional Economic Policy Making through Evidence: Opportunities and Challenges for Think Tanks and Their Supporters (anglais)

Against the backdrop of a new World Bank initiative to support African think tanks, the “Africa Think Tank Platform”, this paper outlines critical opportunities and constraints that think tanks may face...

A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development : Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges (anglais)

Governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world utilize Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges. Despite consistent evidence...

Development Acupuncture : The Network Structure of Multidimensional Poverty and Its Implications (anglais)

While development literature has come a long way in conceptualizing and measuring poverty multidimensionally, policy interventions to address it remain trapped in fragmented, sector-specific approaches...

Changing the Narrative on Forced Displacement : Findings from the UK-UNHCR-World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement Research Program - Executive Summary (anglais)

Forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. By the end of 2022, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced, having escaped conflict, violence, or persecution. Low- and...

Learning from the Evidence on Forced Displacement : Program Brief (anglais)

In recent years, forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. Every year, more people are forced to flee their homes to safer shelter, either within their countries’ borders or in...

Changing the Narrative on Forced Displacement : Findings from the UK-UNHCR-World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement Research Program (anglais)

Forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. By the end of 2022, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced, having escaped conflict, violence, or persecution. Low- and...

What Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses ? (anglais)

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature...

Implementation Toolbox to Document and Analyze Primary Health Care Innovations (anglais)

Implementation science is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on studying and promoting effective strategies for translating evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into routine practice to improve outcomes...

Leveraging Social Cohesion for Development Outcomes (anglais)

Efforts to promote social cohesion through development projects have had to contend with multiple definitions of the term, a lack of clarity on diagnostic and measurement approaches, and contradictory...

A Metadata Schema for Data from Experiments in the Social Sciences (anglais)

The use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences has greatly expanded, resulting in newly abundant, high-quality data that can be reused to perform methods research in program evaluation...

Structured Literature Reviews : Building Transparency and Trust in Standards of Reporting Evidence (anglais)

This resource discusses the use of structured literature reviews (SLR) in evaluations towards promoting transparency and trust in the reporting and use of evidence. Structured literature reviews aim to...

Twenty Years and Counting : Celebrating 20 Years of Research, Data, and Analytics for Evidence-Based Development Policy and Practice - Knowledge for Change Program : 2022 Annual Report (anglais)

The 2022 Annual Report consists of three main sections that examine the KCP’s past, present, and future. The first section highlights the meaningful impacts that KCP-financed projects have made over the...

Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation (anglais)

Multiple price lists are a convenient tool to elicit willingness to pay in surveys and experiments, but choice patterns such as “multiple switching” and “never switching” indicate high error rates. Existing...

How to Improve Results in Situations of Fragility, Conflict and Violence : 12 Recommendations (anglais)

The World Bank Group approved a new Strategy for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) in 2020 to strengthen its approach to countries affected by FCV. It also updated its overall outcome orientation...

Serbia - EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA- P167786- Strengthening agriculture sector capacities for evidence-based policy making - Procurement Plan (anglais)