学术论文

A growing body of evidence finds that cash transfers reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in various contexts, even when the cash transfer was not designed to do so. The effects are comparable with standalone violence-prevention interventions an...

Multidimensional well-being indicators have the potential to reduce the “bias” associated to monetary indicators. However, they face stringent data constraints. This paper studies the construction of indicators that strike a balance between (i) re...

Policy interventions that foster aspirations, such as those using role models, are increasingly being implemented so that students, women, microentrepreneurs, farmers, and poor individuals can achieve untapped opportunities. Several of these inter...

Human capital is essential for growth and poverty reduction. It also accounts for two-thirds of the changing wealth of nations. Life-cycle approaches to human development emphasize the importance of investing along the life cycle. Early childhood ...

This paper studies the long-run welfare and productivity effects of transit improvements in the Greater Amman Municipality. The paper builds a rich quantitative spatial model that includes many aspects of the economic geography of Amman. It studie...

Social norms and childcare responsibilities often constrain women’s mobility and work. This paper investigates the promise of digitalization in unlocking the growth of home-based businesses, an economic lifeline for women in developing countries. ...

The World Bank recently introduced a new key indicator to guide its work: the number of countries with high inequality, defined as a Gini index above 40. The new indicator was introduced as part of the new World Bank vision of ending poverty on a ...

This paper builds on recent advances in machine-based pattern recognition to estimate species occurrence maps, using georeferenced open-source data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. With currently available data, the estimation al...

This paper examineslabor market regulationsin Mongolia, particularly focusing on the new Labor Law enacted in January 2022. Our review of the labor and minimum wage regulations suggests that the Mongolian Labor Law is largely in line with internat...

This jobs diagnostic was financed by the World Bank Group SDG Partnership Fund (WBG-SDG). The WBGSDG Fund is supported by the generous contributions of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Republic of Korea Ministry of ...

Soon after the onset of COVID-19, the Zimbabwe Statistics Office (ZIMSTAT), with technical and financial assistance from the World Bank and UNICEF, started a high-frequency household survey to monitor the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic. Simi...

Livestock contributes 6 to 7 percent of Chad's gross domestic product and over 35 percent of total wealth in rural areas. This paper analyzes trade and transport logistics facilitation measures for curtailing the adverse effects of trade disru...

This paper shows that the negative effect of geographical distance on knowledge flows stems from how firms gain sources of knowledge through their existing network. We start by documenting two stylized facts. First, in aggregate, the distance elas...

Children don’t read any more. Teenagers even less so. Screens have made the comic books and albums of our childhood a thing of the past. Such is the current discourse. In reality, whether the doomsayers like it or not, children’s literature is...

Children don’t read any more. Teenagers even less so. Screens have made the comic books and albums of our childhood a thing of the past. Such is the current discourse. In reality, whether the doomsayers like it or not, children’s literature is...

Children don’t read any more. Teenagers even less so. Screens have made the comic books and albums of our childhood a thing of the past. Such is the current discourse. In reality, whether the doomsayers like it or not, children’s literature is...