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Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Malaysia

M Niaz Asadullah, Monica Biradavolu, Vijayendra Rao, Kenneth Simler, Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A ...
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Sharpening the Welfare-Consistency of the Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Identification Method, with Illustration on Nigerian Data

Benoit Decerf, Kike Fonton, Sharpening the Welfare-Consistency of the Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Identification Method, with Illustration on Nigerian Data, The World Bank Economic Review, ...
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Evaluating Paraguay’s Vulnerability to the EU Deforestation-Free Regulation

This paper examines Paraguay’s vulnerability to the European Union’s Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products. Drawing on ...
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NBS Invest: Accelerating Investments in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation - Progress Report, 2023-2025

NBS Invest aims to increase financing for nature-based solutions and mainstream nature into development agendas across Least Developed Countries. Between 2023-2025, NBS Invest accelerated the ...
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Handbook for Livable and Resilient Cities: Integrating Hazard and Risk Information into Urban Planning

As these risks intensify, national and local governments must work together to improve urban livability and resilience through risk-informed urban planning. In this handbook, livable and resilient ...
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Group Consulting Continues to Benefit Firms after a Decade: Experimental Evidence from Colombian Auto Parts Firms

A randomized experiment tested the effectiveness of individual and small group–based consulting services on firms in the Colombian auto parts industry, finding improvements in management and firm ...
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South Africa’s Fragmented Cities: The Unequal Burden of Labor Market Frictions

This paper examines the causal impact of generative artificial intelligence on U.S. labor demand using online job posting data. Exploiting ChatGPT’s release in November 2022 as an exogenous shock, the ...
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Social Assistance in Malaysia: Who Benefits, and Who Misses Out

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of who benefits and who misses out on social assistance (SA) transfers in Malaysia. As the first in a two-part series on SA, the paper uses data from the ...
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The Journey of Disability Assessment Reform in Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the World Bank (WB) have been closely collaborating on disability-assessment reforms and ...
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“I Want to Break Free”: How Laws and Social Norms Open Doors for Women

This paper develops a conceptual framework to analyze how gendered social norms mediate the effects of legal frameworks on ...
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Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti

Florencia Devoto, Emanuela Galasso, Kathleen Beegle, Stefanie Brodmann, Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue 4, ...
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Nudging at Scale: Evidence from a Government Text Messaging Campaign during School Shutdowns in Punjab, Pakistan

This brief presents initial findings from an ongoing phone survey of families in Punjab, Pakistan designed to assess what is happening to girls’ elementary school education during COVID-19. The ...