The Country Opinion Survey in Grenada assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Grenada perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from ...
The Country Opinion Survey in Sint Maarten assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Sint Maarten perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback ...
The Country Opinion Survey in Saint Lucia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in ...
This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of poverty due to disasters, 12.7 million thereof facing extreme poverty. Disaster ...
Acknowledging that bringing together two highly complex, broad, and even contested concepts— resilience and FCV—is an intimidating undertaking, this study approached the task at hand with a great deal ...
This study aims to establish a regional benchmark of the costs associated with acquiring and operating e-buses and charging infrastructure in LAC, and to explain the significant cost variation ...
Industrial policy—the range of policy tools governments use to shape what an economy produces, rather than leaving it to markets alone—is back with a vengeance. Contrary to recent headlines, advanced ...
This paper studies job preferences among women in rural and peri-urban areas in El Salvador using a discrete choice experiment. Drawing on focus group insights, the analysis varies wages and five ...
Corruption poses a significant threat to development and has a disproportionate impact on the poor and most vulnerable. Government agencies struggle to identify fraud and corruption in public ...
Business dynamism and economic growth in Europe and Central Asia have weakened since the late 2000s, with productivity growth driven largely by resource reallocation between firms and sectors rather ...
While there are strong theoretical arguments for ways in which public spending influences growth, robust empirical links have been difficult to establish. More recently, many of the methodological ...
Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded ...