To facilitate the use of data collected through the High-frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) has created the harmonized datafiles using two household surveys:...
This brief focuses on the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) designed to cover each complete contracting process from planning and budgeting, to tender (or negotiation), award, contract, implementation...
This document provides additional information on the data collected in Armenia between December 2019 and August 2020. The objective of the enterprise survey (ES) is to gain an understanding of what firms...
This document provides additional information on the data collected in Armenia between December 2019 and August 2020. The survey was part of a joint project of the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
The Enterprise Surveys (ES) are an ongoing World Bank project in collecting both objective data based on firms’ experiences and enterprises’ perception of the environment in which they operate. This document...
This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses...
Inclusive and robust identification systems can offer many concrete benefits for governments, as well as individuals, private companies, and development partners. By providing a secure and accurate way...
The World Bank Group’s Doing Business project provides a measure of the ‘ease of doing business’ in 190 countries through a set of objective indicators that focus on the impact of laws, regulations and...
In 2015, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducted a border-crossing time-release study (TRS) at three points on the Belarus border. The joint team customized a standard survey...
This brief presents the main findings of a large national analysis of determinants of CD4 immune recovery among individuals on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. The analysis was conducted by the...
There has been considerable expansion in routine data generation over the last decade in health care (and beyond) as well as in methodologies and technologies allowing innovative analysis and use of such...
The development objective of the Desk-top Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for an Eskom Pilot Carbon Capture Project for South Africa is to advance the work that already has been carried out...
In an increasingly online world, governments are realizing that previous silo approaches to implementing information technology (IT) systems have created barriers to the sharing of information among business...