The impact of performance pay in institutions with multiple goals depends on complementarities in the disutility cost of effort and how different tasks interact to achieve each goal. Workers of a mission-oriented...
Do households living in climate affected areas in the MENA region believe that changes in climate patterns and their environment are taking place? Have households been affected by extreme weather events...
As tariff levels have reached all-time lows in recent decades, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have taken a central role in the international trade agenda. In a nutshell, NTMs are all types of trade regulations...
Local benefit sharing in hydropower projects can be defined as the systematic efforts by project proponents to sustainably benefit local communities affected by hydropower investments. Benefit sharing...
It is well recognized that mountain ecosystems and their inhabitants are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Measuring the nature and scope of these vulnerabilities remains, however, a work-in-progress...
Angola has recently embarked on the decentralization process and counts with political will and commitment at the center. Various political decisions have been made to strengthen local administrative and...
This note summarizes available research on the impact of schooling and employment of adolescent girls and young women on earnings and poverty reduction, demographic outcomes, child development outcomes...
As Argentina approaches its bicentennial as an independent republic, it has a window of opportunity in social protection policy. As growth has returned and social indicators have recovered to pre-2001/2002...
Curriculum reforms first and foremost should focus on improving the current teaching and learning processes. As a systemic challenge, these changes need to include re-orientation from secondary education...
The project, with an IDA credit of US$30 million, and a total of $60 million was implemented by the government between 1998 and 2004. It was jointly financed by KFW $7m; IFAD, $10; GoG $7.1m; District...
The project, with an IDA credit of US$30 million, and a total of $60 million was implemented by the government between 1998 and 2004. It was jointly financed by KFW $7m; IFAD, $10; GoG $7.1m; District...
Labor market regulation involves many aspects, ranging from how employers contract for the services of workers to the nature of the exchange, including terms of conditions of employment. This area of regulation...
The development of Environmental Information Systems (EIS) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the 1970s and 1980s was slow, in spite of several efforts to introduce the technology. However since 1990, growth...
The development of Environmental Information Systems (EIS) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the 1970s and 1980s was slow, in spite of several efforts to introduce the technology. However since 1990, growth...
There are three main issues in defining a utility regulator's role: the scope of its coverage, its role in relation to ministers, and its role in relation to other regulatory entities such as the competition...
This Precis entitled, From rationing to full service : water and sanitation challenge for Bombay, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Impact evaluation report, India : Water...
This Precis entitled, From rationing to full service : water and sanitation challenge for Bombay, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Impact evaluation report, India : Water...
On September 9, 1982, the International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and twenty eighth. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of the Association...
On September 09, 1982, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred twenty-eight. The Board of Governors of the Corporation consider the Financial Statements...
On September 1, 1959, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and twenty-eight. It was resolved that: (1) in section I- (i)...