Facilitating jobs for women is a development agenda that is critical for addressing gender inequality and for yielding huge economic payoffs. Currently under development, The Center for Research on Women and Jobs is an initiative led by the Development Research Group in collaboration with the Bank's regional Gender Innovation Labs and other key partners to coordinate policy research efforts on women and jobs.
The Research and Development Center in Chile conducts research on financial development relevant to Chile and other countries and generates knowledge to inform policymakers, practitioners, and the academic community on how the financial sector can foster growth across the economy for a more prosperous and equitable society.
DaTax conducts cutting-edge analytical work with micro tax data, aimed at supporting the development of equitable and sustainable public finance systems. The partners work in close collaboration with tax administrations and Ministries of Finance in over 15 developing countries globally. The analysis feeds directly into policy design and helps build partner countries¡¯ analytical capacity.
The last few decades have seen explosive growth in the number of impact evaluations that seek to guide policy decision-making in low-and middle-income countries. However, a key challenge is the lack of standardization and comparability of the main results produced by each study. Currently in a pilot phase, the Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL) is aiming to fill this gap.
The LGAF is a diagnostic instrument to assess the state of land governance at the national or sub-national level. Local experts rate the quality of a country's land governance along a comprehensive set of dimensions. These ratings and an accompanying report serve as the basis for policy dialogue at the national or sub-national level.
The Long Term Growth Model (LTGM) is an Excel-based tool to analyze long-term growth scenarios building on the celebrated Solow-Swan Growth Model. The tool can also be used to assess the implications of growth (and changes in inequality) for poverty rates.