Governance

Policy Research Working Paper series publication roundup for September 16-30

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent World Bank Group working papers. It introduces four papers published in the second half of September 2022 on various topics, including paid…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team|
Climate Change, Financial Inclusion, Gender, Governance, Jobs & Development, Poverty, Urban Development

What is working at the World Bank like? Experiences of two young development economics researchers

This blog highlight the experiences of two fellows from last year’s World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program.

Emma Frankham, Maria Jones|
Competitiveness, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Trade

The urgent need for data to understand the link between taxation and women’s economic empowerment

Taxation offers an objective and measurable benchmark for global progress toward gender equality. However, we lack a global picture of how women are treated by tax policies. To address the gap,…

Hannelore Maria Leona Niesten, Marie Caitriona Hyland|
Competitiveness, Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

Africa might have dodged a bullet, but systemic warnings abound for poverty reduction efforts on the continent

The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the largest global shocks in recent history, but it did not increase extreme poverty in Africa as it was feared it would. The reason may be a combination of things…

Kibrom A. Abay, Nishant Yonzan, Sikandra Kurdi, Kibrom Tafere|
Education, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Governance, Health, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Poverty, Social Protection

How data integration can improve socioeconomic measurement

This World Bank working paper shows that integrating survey and geospatial data significantly improves survey estimates, in terms of precision and accuracy, of monetary poverty rates in Mexican…

David Newhouse, Joshua Merfeld, Anusha Ramakrishnan, Tom Swartz, Partha Lahiri|
Competitiveness, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Trade
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