While infrastructure has been perceived as gender-neutral, it can be deeply exclusionary if masculine sensibilities solely determine the design. How can private investors incentivize gender…

Luciana Guimaraes Drummond e Silva |

Gender-based violence represents a significant barrier to women’s full involvement in social and economic life in Haiti and remains associated with violence and insecurity. The country has a long…

Bruce MacPhail, Francesca Rivelli, Giselle Marie Bello, Manuel Contreras-Urbina |

About three-quarters of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean uses the Internet. The World Bank studies 24 countries in the region and provides three main findings on household digital…

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Niccolò Comini, Natalija Gelvanovska-Garcia |

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted employment in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Although labor markets in the region began to recover, employment levels and working conditions have…

Ana Rivadeneira, Sergio Olivieri, Trinidad Saavedra |

New Evidence from Telephone Surveys Provides Insights for Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean

Amy Margolies, Jacobus de Hoop, Phillis Kim, Anna Luisa Paffhausen, Laura Di Giorgio |

Detailed data on the spatial distribution of jobs is crucial, but such data are rarely available. This study develops a machine learning algorithm that relies on widely available public data to…

Paolo Avner, Jun Rentschler, Samira Barzin, Neave O'Clery |

Haiti, a nation vulnerable to earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods—with high levels of poverty, rapid & unregulated urbanization, and fragile government agencies—was able to draw on financing…

Naraya Carrasco, Francesco Varotto, Peter Wrede |

Transport data collection in fragile and conflict-affected can be challenging. The World Bank has partnered with small tech start-ups to find innovative approaches to help bridge the mobility…

Malaika Becoulet, Xavier Espinet, Ludovic Cartigny |

Using disaster risk modeling techniques, in combination with historical damage data, census and socioeconomic survey data, satellite imagery, drone footage, and other media, the GRADE assessment…

Francesco Varotto, Giovanni Michele Toglia, Claudia Soto Orozco |