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Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
What caused the decline in wage inequality of the 2000s in Latin America? Looking to the future, will the current economic slowdown be regressive? Wag...
The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa
The book deals with informality from a human development angle, focusing on informal employment. Informal workers in MENA are generally employed in lo...
A Skills and Jobs Agenda
Continued social and economic progress in Brazil will depend on high employment, sustained labor productivity and income growth, and opportunities for...
The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa
Inclusion and Resilience has two broad objectives. The study seeks first to enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It
Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an enormous shock to mortality, economies, and daily life. But what has received insufficient attention is t...
The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin America
A region known for its volatility, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises—including the ...
The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa Region
This quick note provides an overview of the World Bank report striving for better jobs: the challenge of informality in the Middle East and North Afri...
The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa, OVERVIEW
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This book estimates how crises change labor market flows, assesses how these changes affect people, and discusses the key policy responses....
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The ...
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their eff...