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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor

World Bank Group - 2009

In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...

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Kenya Public Expenditure Review 2020 : Options for Fiscal Consolidation after the COVID-19 Crisis

World Bank Group - 2020

and examines options for expenditure rationalization to help return Kenya's fiscal accounts to a prudent trajectory in the … controls in Kenya. It complements an ongoing governance for enabling service delivery and public investments in Kenya (GESDeK … while chapter three presents options for expenditure rationalization in Kenya. Chapter four ties it all together with fiscal …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

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Benefit Sharing in REDD+

World Bank - 2011

International policies to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) envisage the creation of financial incentive mechanisms that reward forest protection efforts and adequately compensate those actors that face new costs. In order for REDD+ to achieve these objectives,...

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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Preferential Resource Spending under an Employment Guarantee : The Political Economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh

Sheahan, Megan - 2016

Are ostensibly demand-driven public works programs with high levels of safeguards nonetheless susceptible to political influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Focusing on one state where...

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Pathways to Better Jobs in IDA Countries : Findings from Jobs Diagnostics

Merotto, Dino - 2018

This report documents cross-country findings from analysis conducted by World Bank staff working on Jobs Diagnostics. It identifies some key insights for policy makers to take into account when designing policies and programs for inclusive growth. The findings are drawn from three different...

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Integrated Youth Employment Programs : A Stocktake of Evidence on What Works in Youth Employment Programs

Datta, Namita - 2018

This Note is a stocktake summarizing evidence on "what works" in youth employment programs on both the supply and demand side. Employment outcomes refer both to direct and indirect job creation, including through firm start-up, as well as improvements in the quality of jobs as manifested in...

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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2016

This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity. The scheme prompted a 10-point wage increase and...

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The Role of Training Programs for Youth Employment in Nepal : Impact Evaluation Report on the Employment Fund

Chakravarty, Shubha - 2016

specialized adolescent girls' initiative that reached 4,410 women ages 16 to 24. The report finds that after three years of the … larger employment impacts for women than for men, but younger women ages 16 to 24 experienced the same improvements as older …

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