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Forced displacement, Gender and Livelihoods : Refugees in Ethiopia (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 196994 Дата подготовки документа: 5 ноября 2024 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 196993 Дата подготовки документа: 5 ноября 2024 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 197014 Дата подготовки документа: 22 декабря 2023 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Zeljko Bogetic,Dominik Naeher
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The Sounds of Development : Musical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 168172 Дата подготовки документа: 12 января 2021 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Lewis, David,Rodgers,Dennis William,Woolcock,Michael
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Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets : A Framed Field Experiment (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 157789 Дата подготовки документа: 1 октября 2020 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Adjognon,Guigonan Serge,Liverpool Tasie,Lenis Saweda Onipede,Shupp, Robert
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How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems? : Evidence from Humanitarian and Development Approaches in Niger (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 145819 Дата подготовки документа: 6 декабря 2019 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Schnitzer,Pascale
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Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement : Introduction to a Special Issue (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 145816 Дата подготовки документа: 6 декабря 2019 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Bruck,Tilman,Cuesta Leiva,Jose Antonio,De Hoop,Jacobus Joost,Gentilini,Ugo,Peterman,Amber
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Estimating the Welfare Costs of Reforming the Iraq Public Distribution System : A Mixed Demand Approach (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 145817 Дата подготовки документа: 6 декабря 2019 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 144309 Дата подготовки документа: 10 декабря 2018 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Viollaz,Mariana
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Review article : transport policies and development (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 115263 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2017 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Berg,Claudia N.,Deichmann,Uwe Klaus,Liu,Yishen,Selod,Harris
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Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 102498 Дата подготовки документа: 24 декабря 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 104049 Дата подготовки документа: 11 ноября 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Hou,Xiaohui,Hong,Seo Yeon,Scott,Kinnon
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Informality and profitability : evidence from a new firm survey in Ecuador (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 100192 Дата подготовки документа: 13 августа 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Medvedev,Denis,Oviedo Silva,Ana Maria
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Evaluating the impacts of public student subsidies to low-cost private schools in Pakistan (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 100211 Дата подготовки документа: 5 августа 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Raju,Dhushyanth
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A retrospective impact evaluation of the Tamil Nadu empowerment and poverty alleviation (pudhu vaazhvu) project (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 100200 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июля 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khanna,Madhulika,Kochhar,Nishtha,Palaniswamy,Nethra
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Democracy and the distribution of NGOs promoting renewable energy in Africa (Английский)
Roughly 60 percent of Africans lack access to electricity, negatively impacting development opportunities. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have started promoting distributed generation, small-scale...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 100259 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 94657 Дата подготовки документа: 14 декабря 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Dabalen,Andrew L.,Paul,Saumik
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Identifying spatial efficiency-equity trade-offs in territorial development policies : evidence from Uganda (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 94650 Дата подготовки документа: 13 декабря 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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? (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 100254 Дата подготовки документа: 2 мая 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: 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 (Английский)
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...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 94649 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Aturupane,Harsha,Glewwe,Paul W.,Ravina, Renato,Sonnadara, Upal,Wisniewski,Suzanne L. W.