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use two complementary geocoded household data sets to analyze outcomes in Ghana: the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS), which provide information on a wide range of welfare outcomes. The paper contributes to the growing literature on the local effects of mining. Much of the academic interest in natural resources is focused on country-wide effects, and this research discusses whether the discovery of natural resources is a blessing or a curse to the national economy. Natural resource dependence at the national level has been linked to worsening economic and political outcomes, such as weaker institutions, and more corruption and conflict (see Frankel 2012 and van der Ploeg 2011 for an overview). While all these effects can have household-level implications, fewer analyses have, thus far, analyzed the geographic dispersion of such impacts. A recent literature on the local and subnational effects of natural resources contributes to the understanding of such effects (for example Aragón and Rud 2013, 2015; Axbard et al., 2016; Benshaul-Tolonen 2018, 2019; Caselli and Michaels 2013; Corno and de Walque 2012; Fafchamps et al. 2016; Kotsadam and Tolonen 2016; Loyaza et al 2013; Michaels 2011; von der Goltz and Barnwal 2019; Wilson
this study, we consider hundreds of thousands of such locations. This means that, globally, hundreds of 1-in-100 year flood events happen every year. **3.2.** **Population density** This study estimates the location of people using the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), produced by the EC JRC. It offers global coverage and is available for the years 1975, 1990, 2000, 2015, and 2020. While GHSL provides several layers (including those specifying built-up areas, population, and settlements), this study uses the population density map (GHSL-POP 2020). In a raster format, this data set provides the number of inhabitants per cell, with a resolution of 3 arc seconds (approximately 90 by 90 meters), thus specifying the distribution of population. This information is based on administrative or census-based population data, which is then disaggregated to grid cells based on distribution and density of built-up area, which in turn is derived from satellite imagery. For details of the methodology, see Freire et al. (2016). 6
and grievances management. By implementing these measures, the project aims to create a robust and dynamic social registry that will not only address current needs but also adapt to future challenges. **Component 2: Access to Socio-Economic Infrastructure and Development of Economic Opportunities (** _**total IDA**_ _**US$14 Million equivalent, including WHR US$4.5 Million**_ **)** 40. **This component will finance basic socio-economic infrastructure to increase access to services (e.g.,** **electrification, water and sanitation, renewable energy, health and education facilities, roads and utilities) for** **vulnerable communities, including refugees and hosts, in addition to productive economic assets (US$11 Million).** Additionally, it will provide targeted support to facilitate or enhance access to economic opportunities and sustainable livelihoods in target rural areas (US$3 Million). As such, activities under this component will aim to create social and economic development opportunities for the populations in underserved areas, and for refugees and host communities in refugee-hosting areas, and facilitating sustainable solutions to protracted refugee situations. 41. **Supporting an integrated service delivery platform to foster economic growth and jobs creation, the approach** **will leverage socio-economic infrastructure investments in underserved target locations.** It will support productive facilities and strengthen market access. The compounded effect of these investments – expanding access to
A combination of geographical targeting, categorical targeting, ProxyMeans Targeting (PMT) and community-based targeting (CBT) mechanisms will be used in a complementary way to identify beneficiaries and minimize exclusion and inclusion errors that may arise from inadequate coverage of the social registry and biases that result from community beneficiary identification. The main basis for beneficiary targeting will be the PMT using information from the social registry. However, the CBT will be done in areas not covered by the social registry while enrolled beneficiaries will be validated through community visits and public meetings. Among the target households, C4N will specifically prioritize families with young children and pregnant women living in extreme poverty, recognizing that these households encounter significant barriers in accessing essential nutrition and health services. Female recipients will be disproportionately targeted (women to make up at least of 75 percent of cash transfers beneficiaries). 34. **With regard to the SBCC, the sessions will seek to empower mothers, including from households among** **refugees and host communities, with knowledge about proper nutrition and meal preparation, good hygiene practices,** Page 10
wetland service and valuation methods used, with the average annual wetland value reported to be approximately USD 2,800 ha [-1] yr [-1] at 1995 USD (see Brander et al. 2006 for details). However, Brander et al. (2006) pointed out that the median value in their sample is USD 150 ha [-] 1 yr-1 at 1995 USD, thus suggesting a skewed distribution of values with a long tail of high values. The authors also found that higher values per hectare were observed in North America and Europe, all other things being equal. For the purpose of this analysis, we first assumed that a value of USD 150 ha [-1] yr [-1] at 1995 USD applies to all wetlands in all regions, as the median is a better measure of the central tendency for positively skewed distributions. We converted this number to USD 2000 [22] and used this number to estimate the economic value of the quantity of vulnerable wetlands presented in 21 Brouwer at al. (1999), in their analysis, selected their sample exclusively from studies using contingent valuation as the means of valuation. Woodward and Wui (2001) included 39 valuation studies in their analysis with of these studies from the United
direct and effective support to frontline schools; and (iii) Improving decision-making with a data-driven approach, improving information systems and planning, which requires more accurate cost estimation and resultsoriented strategic planning. These measures would allow the MEP to optimize its management and fulfil its mandate to ensure that resources are used effectively to support the learning and development of students throughout the country. [17] **Inclusion: Gender, Refugees and Migrants, and Indigenous Peoples** 11. **Gender parity between boys and girls to access STEAM related jobs is a challenge on which Costa Rica has made** **progress, but more policy action is needed.** PISA 2022 mean scores for Costa Rica in Reading are above LAC’s average (415 vs. 400), as well as mean scores in Mathematics (385 vs. 374) and Sciences (411 vs. 400). Figure 1a shows that there is a statistically significant gender gap in Mathematics but not in Reading and Science as observed in PISA data. Looking at graduates of pre-university technical education (mainly technical stream secondary education) one finds an interesting pattern comparing three specializations (Figure 1b). Gender disparities are high in Electronics and Automation, less in Software Development and were recently eliminated in Network and Database Design. The final example
(l) annual external audits will be conducted and the Management Letters will be submitted to the World Bank within six months after the end of the financial year; (m) IAs will be responsible to take timely action on audit report findings and notify the same to the World Bank. With implementation of these actions, the FM assessment concludes that the current arrangements will provide reasonable assurance that the project resources will be used for the intended purposes. **Procurement** 77. **Procurement will be carried out in accordance with the World Bank Procurement Regulations for** **Borrowers under IPF**, dated July 2016, revised February 2025, sixth edition, hereafter referred to as the ‘Procurement Regulations’. The project will be subject to the World Bank’s Anticorruption Guidelines, dated July 2016, and beneficiary disclosure requirements. The project will use the Systematic Tracking of Exchanges in Procurement (STEP), a planning and tracking system that will provide data on procurement activities, establish benchmarks, monitor delays, and measure procurement performance. 78. **As per the requirement of the Procurement Regulations, a Project Procurement Strategy for Development** **(PPSD) sets out the selection methods to be followed** in the procurement of goods, works, non-consulting and consulting services financed by the World Bank.
work was carried out in which 14 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Representatives of the key institutional bodies that deal with refugees and asylum seekers were interviewed; namely the state (officials and politicians); civil society (senior NGO staff and academics); and personnel at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It further draws on a multidisciplinary review of academic papers, key governmental documents and diverse media reports. [1] 1Three key newspapers are cited; _Haaretz –_ a central-left newspaper, _Jerusalem Post_ - a central-right newspaper and _Ynet,_ a news website, owned by Israel‘s most popular, politically-mainstream newspaper _Yedioth Aharonot_ 1
are described in table 2. The average village has an area of about 7,500 mu (5 km [2] ) of which some 51% were 13 To test for presence of pre-reform trends for variable _Yit_ in household _i_ in year _t_, we use the pre-reform sample to estimate ��� ������� ����� �������� ����where _Ci_ is an indicator variable for location inside Chengdu and _Tit_ is a time. With _β2_ and _β2_ + _β3_ as the pre-reform trend for households outside and inside the Chengdu boundary, significance of _β3_ .implies that the parallel trends assumption can be rejected and we report the level of significance for this variable in table 1, col. 7. 10
group-based revolving funds and start-up grants to approximately 234,500 beneficiaries to enhance their economic investments and value chain engagement. PCM of US$10 million has been added to the financing table based on beneficiaries' monthly collective 10 Climate Risk Profile: Uganda (2021): The World Bank Group. 11 “Uganda’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution.” Ministry of Water and Environment, October 2015. 12 Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Global Internal Displacement Database - Disasters. IDMC (2023). 13 UNHCR and partners are reporting increased rates of refugee suicide. Page 3
_UNHCR and partners worked to ensure that unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) continue_ _to receive on-going monitoring, while newly separated children are placed in appropriate temporary_ _care arrangements._ Restriction measures, and the subsequent impact operation has also been working with families and on the household income has had a significant individuals to identify caregivers for effect on families’ ability to continue to care for unaccompanied children. unaccompanied and separated children. In addition, these measures also prevent UNHCR In Ecuador and Jordan, UNHCR and partners, staff and partners from carrying out the together with the national child protection monitoring of alternative care arrangements, and systems have increased the capacity for the identification of new unaccompanied and community-level identification of unaccompanied separated children. The COVID-19 pandemic and separated children, and organised has also prevented the identification of temporary transportation to care facilities. Capacity-building care arrangements for children who are and support to the national system continues to separated from their parent(s) or caregiver(s) who be strengthened through the deployment of have been hospitalised – which continues to be UNHCR staff to the national system – one of an additional challenge and presents a significant many mechanisms of cooperation established protection risk to
poverty. The project will provide C4N support to help vulnerable individuals cope during shocks in areas where the combined exposure to hazards and vulnerability is among the highest in the country. Indeed, hazard mapping shows that the share of population exposed to flooding in the Dikhil region is estimated to be a bit higher than one-third of the exposure level in Djibouti Ville. The financial inclusion subcomponent will further build communities’ resilience to these shocks. Resilient infrastructure supported by the project will contribute to the objectives of the NAP strengthening community resilience. **II.** **PROJECT DESCRIPTION** **A. Project Development Objective** 22. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve access to basic services and safety nets, and enhance economic opportunities for vulnerable communities, including refugees and host communities in target areas. 23. This integrated approach combines investments in basic services, social protection, and economic opportunities to address the multifaceted needs of vulnerable communities, including refugees and host communities. By linking safety nets with livelihood opportunities and broader socio-economic development, the project aims to foster resilience, inclusion, and sustainable economic growth in target areas. These include underserved regions such as Dikhil and refugee-hosting locations facing pressures from population inflows, strained public services,
to their Grade; Indicator 4: Percentage of technical stream secondary education students with micro-credentials registering English proficiency (all these indicators will be disaggregated by gender and by indigenous and refugee/migrant status). [23] 23 The Project will support block-chain backed micro-credentials (these are authenticated digital certificates, with the block-chain ensuring the authenticity). The information infrastructure and outreach to employers required to bring micro-credentials into regular use is an end in itself as a precursor to a digitally founded lifelong learning trajectory for students. While micro-credentials would be awarded for a number of employability related competency areas, the PDO choses English proficiency as central to the challenge of a Spanish-speaking population adopting to the needs of a globalized work force, especially important for Costa Rica, with trade accounting for 80 percent of the GDP. Page 7
The World Bank Economic Review 705 One important clarification of these results is that most potential buyers living in a village that had experienced payouts would have also experienced uninsured rainfall shocks during the same season. Therefore, it may be possible that there are effects of trust and learning, but they are outweighed by opposite effects of the weather. As shown in the previous section, rainfall shocks tend to have a negative effect on insurance demand, so the (lack of) evidence of spillovers may be a result of a more complex interaction between trust/learning and direct effects of weather. Overall, these results do not support the hypothesis that trust, learning, or any other effects of simply witnessing insurance payouts are driving increased purchasing. Although it is possible that the measurements of spillovers are too crude and miss more subtle effects, the data simply does not provide evidence that there are strong spillover effects. The lack of visible spillover effects casts doubt on the theory that repurchases are being driven by increased trust in the insurance company or learning about insurance payouts. Notably, this result stands in contrast to recent results that do document spillover effects of insurance payouts (Cole, Stein,
negative first-order autocorrelation in rainfall that appears to be driven by rains early in the season. The bottom two rows test for autocorrelation of rainfall shocks using the parameters of the 2005 insurance policy to determine shocks. “Would Have Been Payout” is a dummy variable that takes a value of 1 if the insurance policy of 2005 would have given a payout; “Total Insurance Payout” is the size of this payout. By these measures, shocks do not appear to exhibit significant positive first-order autocorrelation. **Table 4.** Rainfall Autocorrelation **Fixed effects** **Arellano-Bond** **(1)** **(2)** Total rainfall −0.106*** −.086*** (.030) (.021) Phase 1 rainfall −.090*** −.075*** (.030) (.029) Phase 2 rainfall −.018 −.026 (.030) (.028) Phase 3 rainfall −.029 .007 (.030) (.028) Would have been payout .023 .017 (.030) (.022) Total insurance payout −.0353 .004 (.030) (.028) _Notes_ : Coefficients reported are from separate univariate regressions. The Fixed Effects specification is OLS with six lags of the dependent variable. The Arellano-Bond regression contains one lag of the dependent variable, with this lag instrumented by five previous lags. Observation are years 1967–2004 for the fixed-effects regression, and years 1962-2004 for the Arellano-Bond regression. All regressions contain weather station fixed effects. Robust standard errors
increased from 27,993 in 2018 to 273,066 by December 2023. While the country offers public education to all children regardless of migratory status, more efforts are needed to ensure that enrollment requirements do not exclude migrant children from the classroom, and that learning environments are inclusive. As of September 2023, 64,455 students enrolled in the Costa Rican education system were foreigners (5.4 percent of the total student population). According to administrative registries, 38,870 migrant students (60.3 percent of the total migrant student population) are under irregular status or pending regularization. [20] The issue of disabilities is also a priority item for Government policies on inclusion. MEP statistics indicate 19,643 students with disabilities, with alternative solutions providing services to 81 percent of the disabled students and 2,672 students with a need gap that MEP intends to address. The Government policy includes the provision of tailored teaching methodologies and materials designed to facilitate the full participation, retention, and educational advancement of students with disabilities, as well as facilitation for their transition to the labor market. 13. **Indigenous students face additional educational challenges related to the low availability of educational** **materials in indigenous languages.** There are an estimated 16,000 indigenous students from eight
accounts for OPM and IG into the OPM operations and implementation account and IG’s operations account, both denominated in Uganda Shillings (UGX). Payments for eligible expenditure by OPM and IG can be made from either their US$ or UGX accounts. Transfers by OPM to districts, cities, and urban centers will be done from the operations account to the consolidated fund (holding account) managed by the Office of the Accountant General. Each district, city and urban center fund will have a budget code for the project to account for the funds held in the holding account. The budget codes will be segregated for operations and subprojects. Payments to communities, suppliers, or other beneficiaries by the local governments will be approved by the CAO or City/Town Clerk and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) through the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). Thereafter, MoFPED will transfer funds from the consolidated fund into the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to make payments. Subproject payments will be made to a community bank account in a commercial bank. The CFO of the local government will authorize the opening of community bank accounts in local governments and monitor payments made through the account to ensure they are used for
B of table 4), the estimates point toward an increase in agriculture, services, and professional (all statistically insignificant estimates), but a decreased likelihood of working in manual labor. Results for men in panel B are largely insignificant, and it is worthwhile noting that the sample size is only slightly above 50% than the women sample size due to DHS sampling frame. **Table 4 OLS estimates women’s and men’s occupation in the DHS individual-level analysis** Occupation 9 Service sector jobs in the wake of structural transformation has been found important in increasing women’s work hours and reduce the gender wage gap (Ngai and Petrongolo, 2017). 17
CRITICAL FUNDING NEEDS IN MENA / 10 OCTOBER 2024 **Health** Underfunding will severely limit UNHCR’s ability to provide essential health services for 35,000 members of Sudanese refugee and host communities - including vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women, the elderly, and individuals with chronic health conditions - leading to increased morbidity and mortality rates. Without adequate funding, critical interventions such as medical supplies, vaccinations, maternal and child health services, and treatment for communicable diseases will be drastically reduced. This shortage will exacerbate existing health challenges, potentially leading to outbreaks of preventable diseases and worsening overall public health conditions. Moreover, the inability to support health facilities adequately will strain the local healthcare infrastructure, diminishing both the quality and accessibility of care for all populations involved. **Protection** Local authorities and ministries in the east are implementing a registration system and documentation to facilitate access to services and freedom of movement, in accordance with the Ministry of Interior’s decision. So far, authorities have registered and issued 30,000 cards, but their resources have quickly depleted and they are running out of resources to continue registration. UNHCR has been requested to support this initiative, as resource shortages risk preventing further registration, exposing refugees to
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selection model provides consistent, asymptotically efficient estimates for all parameters in the model (Dubin & McFadden 1984). **3. Empirical results** The empirical analysis is based on a household survey conducted of 11 countries across Africa: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe (for more information about the entire study, see Dinar et al. 2006). It was difficult to collect land values in this setting. We consequently relied on measures of net revenue per hectare. Net revenue is defined as gross revenue minus the cost of transport, packaging and marketing, storage, post-harvest losses, hired labor (valued at the median market wage rate), light farm tools (such as files, axes, machetes, etc.), rental on heavy machinery (tractors, ploughs, threshers and others), fertilizer and pesticide. Median district prices from the survey were used for both input and crop prices. Household labor costs are not included as a cost in net revenues because it was not clear what value to assign to wages. We controlled for household labor by using household size as a proxy. In each country, districts were chosen to get farms across a wide range of climate conditions in that country. In each chosen