This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and income mobility in Malaysia in 2004–16. On aggregate, there were large reductions...
Bihar is widely regarded as one of India’s poorest and most divided states. It has also been the site of many social movements that have left indelible marks on the state’s politics and identity. Little...
Workers’ social identity affects their occupation, and therefore the structure and prosperity of the aggregate economy. The paper estimates a general equilibrium Roy model of this phenomenon in the Indian...
Studies have encouraged pro-social behavior by experimentally manipulating people's views of what others like them tend to do (descriptive norms). These studies positively change behaviors, including charitable...
The Kenya Constitution 2010 introduced devolved systems of governance by establishing 47 county governments. This was a bold and transformative move. Devolution assigned revenue and expenditure functions...
This report focuses on nine of the largest higher education systems in the world: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, UK and USA. Together they represent two thirds of the total...
Behavioral economics recognizes that mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things work -- can bias an individual's perceptions of himself and the world. By representing an ascriptive category...
Ratings for the Second Student Loan Support Project for Colombia were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory; risk to development outcome was moderate; Bank performance was satisfactory and borrower performance...
ThE-Junction newsletter includes the following headings: justice: what's the right thing to do?; World Bank Institute (WBI) celebrates diverse cultures; country office insights; World Bank Group (WBG)...
ThE-Junction newsletter includes the following headings: Information Solutions Group (ISG): diversity, one step at a time; question and answer (Q&A) with Fayez Choudhury; International Bank and Reconstruction...
The authors examine a unique public spending program that is proliferating across developing countries, the constituency development fund, to investigate when legislators exert more effort on behalf of...
Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, which is deeply influenced by social and economic inequalities, the authors argue that the struggle to break free...
This review assesses what is known and not known about the interface of gender and governance. More specifically, the purpose of this review is to identify mechanisms that have been used to make the outcomes...
Worldwide, most countries recognize equal rights between men and women. Many have produced regulations intended to fight discrimination and programs granting women access to health, education, and economic...
The purpose of this study is to help the government of Bangladesh establish a more effective and efficient civil service to move the country toward its goals for social and economic development. The report...
In Nepal political and economic power was consolidated by interlinking it with the Hindu caste system. The priestly Brahmans were at the top of the ritual order, with the Kshatriya (kings and warriors)...
This paper discusses various gender data results from Kecamatan Development Program (KDP) years 1, 2 and 3 (1998-2001). It examines several hypotheses associated with gender and the impact of gender-related...