This study seeks to contribute to the existing literature in Sudan by analyzing psychological, social, and behavioral drivers of youth employment in combination with key structural issues identified in...
This diagnostic note identifies the behavioral barriers inhibiting uptake and sustained use of solar home systems (SHS) in Ethiopia. The target beneficiary is off-grid, predominantly low-income households...
In 2019, the World Bank launched an initiative to apply principles from behavioral economics to clean energy access for increased uptake of off-grid photovoltaic Solar Home Systems (SHS) and Improved Cookstoves...
The present diagnostic examines the behavioral barriers to uptake and sustained use of ethanol cookstoves in Madagascar. The target beneficiaries are households in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas which...
Households in refugee settlements in Uganda continue to rely on kerosene, dry cell battery torches, and firewood to meet their lighting and other energy needs despite the availability of solar home system...
Households in rural Senegal continue to rely on flashlights and candles for lighting despite the availability of solar home system options in the market. Multiple behavioral barriers contribute to low...
The Rwanda Energy Access and Quality Improvement Project is supporting the scaling of improved cookstove (ICS) in Rwanda through subsidized stove prices for end users and incentives for suppliers. ICS...
The labor market of the Turkish Cypriot community (TCc) is characterized by low participation and low employment rates, especially among youth. A series of World Bank reports on the Turkish Cypriot (TC)...
Labor market conditions in the Turkish Cypriot community (TCc) are marked by low participation and low employment rates among youth. This is partly due to a combination of: (i) over-subscription in the...
School programs fostering students’ mindsets and socioemotional skills have shown promise for boosting schooling and learning. However, little is known about the impacts of such interventions outside of...
Use of conditional cash transfers has become widespread in development policy given their success in boosting health and education outcomes. Recently, conditional cash transfers are being used to promote...
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region has one of the largest portfolios of land administration and management projects in the World Bank - 40 projects over the past 20 years. Since the fall of communism...
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is defined as a framework of policies, institutional arrangements, technologies, data, and people that enables the sharing and effective usage of geographic information...
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is defined as a framework of policies, institutional arrangements, technologies, data, and people that enables the sharing and effective usage of geographic information...
Land rights for women are important to women's overall role in the household economy. In most Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries, women have equal rights to land by law, but practice varies widely...
Before 2005, FYR Macedonia did not have a well-functioning property registration system and citizens did not have secure property rights. Since the start of the World Bank-funded Real Estate Cadastre and...