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What Works for Work: A Guidebook to Proven and Promising Employment Solutions

Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and ...
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Hypertension and Diabetes Care in Azerbaijan: A Mixed Methods Cascade Analysis

Among these, diabetes and hypertension stand out as significant contributors to the nation’s health burden. Nearly 1 in 3 ...
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The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana

Augustine Denteh, Samuel Asare, Bernardin Senadza, The Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue ...
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Debtor (Non-)Participation in Sovereign Debt Relief: A Real Option Approach

Danny Cassimon, Dennis Essers, Andrea F Presbitero, Debtor (Non-)Participation in Sovereign Debt Relief: A Real Option Approach, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue 4, November 2025, ...
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Private Sanitation and Psychosocial Health in Adolescent Girls

Ray Miller, Lackson D Mudenda, Ashish K Sedai, Lauren Vilims, Private Sanitation and Psychosocial Health in Adolescent Girls, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue 4, November 2025, Pages ...
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Migrants as Social Protection? Simulations of a Market for Work Permits

Quy-Toan Do, Michael Lokshin, Martin Ravallion, Migrants as Social Protection? Simulations of a Market for Work Permits, The ...
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Educational Responses to Local and Migration Destination Shocks: Evidence from China

Jessica Leight, Yao Pan, Educational Responses to Local and Migration Destination Shocks: Evidence from China, The World Bank ...
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Innovative Financing for Inclusive Credit Fintechs in Africa

This Focus Note explores innovative financing strategies for reaching inclusive credit fintechs in Africa, particularly those ...
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‘Frontier Market’ Economies Haven’t Lived Up to Potential Since 2010

Frontier market” economies—a cluster of mostly middle-income economies regarded as the proving ground for the next generation of economic superstars—have largely failed to live up to their potential i ...
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Frontier Market Economies: Promise, Performance, and Prospects

As a group, frontier markets’ economic outcomes since 2000 have not fully delivered on this promise, however. Per capita ...
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China–WBG Global Center for Ecological Systems and Transitions

The CWGC provides a knowledge exchange platform for countries facing similar development challenges, and foster impacts through experience dissemination, policy support and knowledge products at a ...
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Jobs: The Engine for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

We are working to turn Latin America and the Caribbean into an employment powerhouse. More jobs are at the core of everything the World Bank Group does in the region. This objective is not just words: ...