The rapid expansion of social protection programs in response to growing economic volatility at the country and household levels has heightened interest from governments and donors alike in their gove...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68518Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012
This note reviews labor market trends in the developing world, identifies specific problems and policy priorities across groups of countries, and derives implications for the World Bank's work on labo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68519Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012
This note presents a framework for designing and implementing social protection and labor (SPL) systems in middle and low income countries. It argues that enhancing coordination across SPL policies, p...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68514Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012
New data from the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database show that 50 percent of adults worldwide have an account at a formal financial institution. The data also show deep disparities ac...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 82388Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012Autor:
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ;
Klapper, Leora
Pensions and social insurance programs that address the risks of death, disability and old age faced by all households are an integral part of any social protection system. The dual objectives of such...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68520Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012
According to new data from the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, 22 percent of adults worldwide report having saved at a formal financial institution in the past 12 months, while 9 ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 82389Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012Autor:
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ;
Klapper, Leora
The number of crises affecting households' livelihoods is increasing worldwide. The note aims to inform the new Social Protection and Labor (SPL) strategy 2012-2022 on how SPL practice in the World Ba...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68517Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012
The food, fuel, and financial crises showed policymakers in low-income countries and fragile situations the value of having well-designed social protection programs in place prior to the crises. Subse...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68521Fecha: 1 de abril de 2012
The authors believe that innovations in these financial instruments take some time to be able to overcome the challenges of reaching small producing and designing insurance agriculture programs within...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68510Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2012
Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscap...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68069Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2012Autor:
Ehrbeck, Tilman D. ;
Pickens, Mark ;
Tarazi, Ala Michael
Madinah, Saudi Arabia, is a major destination point for pilgrims and a designated center for knowledge-based industry in the country. The Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International Airport, which ser...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 72717Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
The use of bank agents has the potential to significantly increase financial access by poor and underserved populations to a range of formal financial services, including savings, payments and transfe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68068Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2011Autor:
Lauer, Katharine ;
Dias, Denise Leite ;
Tarazi, Ala Michael
This brief points out that in Peru many leadership positions at all levels of business, public and private, are occupied by men (over 75 percent). In the Water User Organizations (OAU) for irrigation ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68507Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2011Autor:
Chinarro, Lara ;
De Nys, Erwin ;
Hidrogo, Carmen Rosa
In Uganda, researchers evaluated a government program that gave unsupervised cash grants to youth for small business development and training. Based on final results four years after the intervention,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 79446Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2011Autor:
Blattman, Christopher ;
Fiala, Nathan V. ;
Martinez, Sebastian
Policymakers throughout the world struggle to boost employment. Creating jobs or giving people the right training to get jobs is not only good economics, but especially in developing countries, it may...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 72241Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2011Autor:
Marcus, Aliza [editor]
How can we make schools work better? It is a question being asked around the world. Getting children to school is only the first step. From then on, there's a host of factors that can decide whether c...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 67200Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2011Autor:
Marcus, Aliza [editor] ;
Pradhan, Menno Prasad ;
Suryadarma, Daniel C. J. ;
Beatty, Amanda ;
Wong, Maisy ;
Alishjabana, Armida ;
Gaduh, Arya Budhiastra ;
Artha, Rima Prama
This focus note describes Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP's) experience to date gathering qualitative and quantitative information directly from low-income consumers to inform financial...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68067Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2011Autor:
Collins, Daryl ;
Jentzsch, Nicola ;
Mazer, Rafael Keenan
Annually, Guatemala loses over US dollar 300 million in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Scaling up core micronutrient nutrition interventions would cost less than US ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 77167Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2011
The World Bank is currently supporting the US$20 million Nutrition and Social Protection Project with more than half of financing supporting the Community Based Nutrition Program. It aims to prevent c...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 77172Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2011
Over one-third of child deaths are due to undernutrition, mostly from increased severity of disease. The economic costs of undernutrition include direct costs such as the increased burden on the healt...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 77144Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2011
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