Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes

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193886: Connecting Social Protection, Labor Market Interventions and Fisheries Management in Viet Nam

Gianluigi Nico, Thanh Hai Nguyen, Annabelle Bladon, Anna Ducros and Nga Thi Nguyen

193764: Management Practices, Firm Performance, and Work-life Balance in Turkiye

Laurent Loic Yves Bossavie, Erkan Duman, Aysenur Acar Erdogan, Mattia Makovec and Sirma Demir Seker

193099: Minimum Income and Social Inclusion Pathways – A review ofselected European Union programs

Marta Serena Liliana Marzi, Alessandra Marini, Ludovica Cherchi and Francesco Cenedese

192987: Safety Nets in Contexts of Violence, Fragility and Forced Displacement: The Case of Burkina Faso and Cameroon

Anne Chartron Della Guardia, Milli May Lake and Mira Saidi

192986: Advancing Crisis-Resilient Social Protection Through a Hybrid Social Protection Scheme in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis

Fareeha Adil and Melis U. Guven

192603: Opportunities for Linking Fisheries Management and Social Protection in Solomon Islands

Anita Ellen Kendrick, Vincenzo Vinci, Xavier F. P. Vincent, Fiona J. Howell and Son H. Nguyen

192601: Supporting Sustainability in Kenya’s Fisheries through Social Protection and Labor Market Interventions

Kevwe Sylvester Pela, Samantha Ashley De Martino, Federica Ricaldi and David William Japp

192485: Integrating Social Protection with Fisheries Management for Sustainability: Overview of Country Case Studies

Yuko Okamura, Annabelle Bladon, Gunilla Tegelskär Greig and Gianluigi Nico

192484: Exploring Alternatives for the Economic Inclusion of Low-Income, Artisanal Fisher Communities in Costa Rica: Case Study of Artisanal Fishing and Mollusk Gathering Communities in Puerto Cortés and Golfo Dulce

Martha Janneth Sanchez Galvis and Luz Rodriguez-Novoa

191318: Social Protection and Jobs for Climate Change Challenges: Current Practice and Future Opportunities

Cecilia Valentina Costella, Elham Shirin Shabahat, Nian Sadiq and Yuko Okamura

191207: Cash or In-Kind Transfers: Do Outcomes Vary According to Transfer Modality?

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191206: Can Safety Nets Reduce Gender-Based Violence? How?

Alessandra Heinemann and Palak Rawal

191205: Evidence Briefs on Cash Transfers: Overview and Ten Key Messages

Ioana Alexandra Botea, Aline Coudouel, Alessandra Heinemann, Stephanie Anne Kuttner and Palak Rawal

191203: Cash Transfer Payment Mechanisms: Do Outcomes Vary According to Payment Mechanism?

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191202: Cash Transfer Size: How Much Is Enough?

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191201: Cash Transfer Timing: How Transfer Duration and Frequency Contribute to Outcomes

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190908: The Gig Economy and the Future of Work: Global Trends and Policy Directions for Non-Standard Forms of Employment

Ramy Yasser Mohamed Zeid, Dana Jasmine Alrayess, Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Mehmet Ali Soytas and Nayib Rivera Guivas

189993: Scaling up Social Assistance Where Data is Scarce: Opportunities and Limits of Novel Data and AI

Yuko Okamura, Tim Julian Ohlenburg and Emil Daniel Tesliuc

189759: Labor Market Integration of Refugees in Germany: New Lessons After the Ukrainian Crisis

Maddalena Honorati, Mauro Testaverde and Elisa Totino

188471: Social Protection and Labor Market Policies for the Informally Employed: A Review of Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Yashodhan Ghorpade, Camila Franco Restrepo and Luis Eduardo Castellanos Rodriguez

185701: The Impact of the August 2021 Earthquake in Haiti: Evidence from the Social Registry’s Shock Module

Pascal Jean Edouard Jaupart, Aditi Kharb, Ailo Klara Manigat, Caroline Anne Isabelle Tassot and Cornelia M. Tesliuc

185112: Pathways toward digitalization in Social Protection and Labor (SPL) service delivery

Christina Louise Lowe, Iamele P. Rigolini, Lucia Solbes Castro and Francesca Adele Bastagli

184975: Novissi Togo - Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Deliver Shock-Responsive Social Protection

Cina Lawson, Morlé Koudeka, Ana Lucia Cardenas Martinez, Luis Inaki Alberro Encinas and Tina George Karippacheril

184762: Constraints to Digital Financial Inclusion of Beneficiaries of PSARA Cash Transfer Program in Haiti - A Demand-side Analysis and Recommendations

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184035: How to Design a Grievance Mechanism that Responds to Gender-Based Violence?: Learningfrom South Sudan

Palak Rawal

183612: Tracking Global Social Protection Responses to Inflation - Living Paper v. 5

Ugo Gentilini, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi Almenfi, Hrishikesh TMM Iyengar, Giorgia Valleriani, Yuko Okamura, Emilio Raul Urteaga, Sheraz Aziz, Mohammad Farid Al Azim Bin Noruzi and Margret Chu

183577: Tracking Social Protection Responses to Inflation: Living Paper V. 5

Ugo Gentilini, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi Almenfi, Hrishikesh Tirumala Madabushi Matam I, Yuko Okamura, Emilio Raul Urteaga, Giorgia Valleriani, Jimmy Vulembera Muhindo, Sheraz Aziz and Margret Chu

183525: Productive Inclusion Programs in Urban Africa

Jorge Eduardo Avalos, Thomas Bossuroy, Timothy Joseph Peter Clay and Puja Vasudeva Dutta

183521: Social Protection in a World of Crisis: Learning from the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemicin Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus

World Bank, Sarah Coll-Black, Cornelius Claus Von Lenthe and Stefanie Koettl-Brodmann

181798: Une Approche de Priorité au Numérique pour les Transferts Monétaires d'Urgence:Programme STEP-KIN en République Démocratique du Congo

Anit Nath Mukherjee, Laura Ximena Bermeo Rojas, Yuko Okamura, Jimmy Vulembera and Paul G. A. Bance

181666: Social Protection Program Spending and Household Welfare in Ghana

Dhushyanth Raju, Stephen D. Younger and Christabel Ewuradjoa Dadzie

180967: Childcare Arrangements for Low-Income Families: Evidence from Low and Middle-Income Countries

Alisa Katharina Arif Currimjee, Jem Heinzel-Nelson Alvarenga Lima and Sara Troiano

180033: Linking Humanitarian Cash Assistance and National Social Protection Systems: Flagship Report

Corinna Kreidler, Sophie Battas, Karin Seyfert and Mira Saidi

178842: Tracking Global Social Protection Responses to Inflation - Living paper v. 4

Ugo Gentilini, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi Almenfi, Hrishikesh Tirumala Madabushi Matam I, Giorgia Valleriani, Yuko Okamura, Emilio Raul Urteaga and Sheraz Aziz

178312: Delivering Affordable, Quality Childcare in Bangladesh: Policy Lessons from a Global Review

Fahmina Rahman and Anmol Kamra

178128: Affordable Childcare: A Needs Assessment of Low-income Mothers and Childcare Providers inUrban Bangladesh

Fahmina Rahman Dutta and Anmol Kamra

177854: My Skills, My Career Superpowers: How Skillcraft Helps Jobseekers to Self-assess, Identify and Develop Skills for Jobs in South Africa

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177340: Guiding Social Protection Targeting Through Satellite Data in São Tomé and Príncipe

Peter Simonsen Fisker, Jordi Jose Gallego-Ayala, David Malmgren Hansen, Thomas Pave Sohnesen and Edmundo Murrugarra

177338: Digitizing Cash Transfers to Remote Rural Populations: Challenges and Solutions from theExperience of Zambia

Emma Sameh Wadie Hobson, Craig Patrick Kilfoil and Andrea Martin

176300: Tracking Global Social Protection Responses to Price Shocks: Living Paper v.3

Ugo Gentilini, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi Almenfi, Hrishikesh Tirumala Madabushi Matam I, Yuko Okamura, Emilio Raul Urteaga, Giorgia Valleriani and Sheraz Aziz

176248: Forewarned, but not Forearmed?: Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010

Yashodhan Ghorpade

173060: Tracking Social Protection Responses to Displacement in Ukraine and Other Countries

Ugo Gentilini, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi Almenfi, Hrishikesh Tirumala Madabushi Matam I, Yuko Okamura, Emilio Raul Urteaga, Giorgia Valleriani, Jimmy Vulembera Muhindo and Sheraz Aziz

172379: Adapting Social Protection to FCV and Insecurity - The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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171201: Tracking Global Social Protection Responses to Price Shocks: Living Paper v.2 (Vol. 2)

Ugo Gentilini, Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi Almenfi, Hrishikesh Tirumala Madabushi Matam I, Yuko Okamura, Emilio Raul Urteaga, Giorgia Valleriani, Jimmy Vulembera Muhindo and Sheraz Aziz

170803: Enhancing Workers’ Protection in Jordan

Friederike Uta Rother, Carole Chartouni, Javier Sanchez-Reaza, Gustavo Nicolas Paez Salamanca and Belal N. Y Fallah

170802: Voluntary Savings Schemes to Protect Informal Workers in Jordan

Friederike Uta Rother, Carole Chartouni, Javier Sanchez-Reaza, Ernesto Ariel Brodersohn Ostrovich and Montserrat Pallares-Miralles

170158: Cash in the City: The Case of Port-au-Prince

Olivia Severine D'Aoust, Julius Gunneman, Karishma Vijay Patel and Caroline Anne Isabelle Tassot

168061: Tracing Labor Market Outcomes of Technical and Vocational Training Graduates in Saudi Arabia: A Study on Graduates from the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC): التقني والمهني في المملكةالعربية السعودي ة: دراسة بشأن خريجي مؤسسة التعلي م والتدريب التقني والمهني (TVTC) نايب ريفيرا ومهتابو ل عزام ومحمد إحسان أجواد

Nayib Rivera Guivas, Mehtabul Azam and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

167319: Early Lessons from Social Protection and Jobs Response to COVID-19 in Middle East andNorth Africa (MENA) Countries

Alex Kamurase and Emma Schwirck Willenborg

160059: Intent to Implementation: Tracking India’s Social Protection Response to COVID-19

Shrayana Bhattacharya and Sutirtha Sinha Roy