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63401: Liberia's Cash for Work Temporary Employment Project: responding to crisis in low income, fragile countries

Colin Andrews, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, Emily Garin, Emily Weedon, Quentin Wodon and Giuseppe Zampaglione

63230: Employability and productivity among older workers: apolicy framework and evidence from Latin America

Edmundo Murrugarra

62984: Cash transfers, children and the crisis: protecting current and future investments

Ariel Fiszbein, Dena Ringold and Santhosh Srinivasan

62879: Overview of the Philippines'Conditional Cash Transfer Program: the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya)

Luisa Fernandez and Rosechin Olfindo

62726: Severance pay programs around the world: history, rationale, status, and reforms

Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec and Michael Weber

62725: Portability of pension, health, and other social benefits: facts, concepts, issues

Robert Holzmann and Johannes Koettl

62564: Disability and poverty in developing countries: a snapshot from the world health survey

Sophie Mitra, Aleksandra Posarac and Brandon Vick

61290: Advancing adult learning in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Christian Bodewig and Sarojini Hirshleifer

60084: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations

Laura Rawlings, Maddalena Honorati, Gloria Rubio and Julie Van Domelen

60083: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for social service delivery projects

Julie Van Domelen

60082: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for social safety nets task teams

Gloria Rubio

60081: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for social funds taskteams

Julie Van Domelen

60080: Results readiness in social protection and labor operations: technical guidance notes for labor markets task teams

Maddalena Honorati

59699: Natural disasters: what is the role for social safety nets?

Larissa Pelham, Edward Clay and Tim Braunholz

59565: North-South knowledgesharing on incentive-based conditional cash transfer programs

Lawrence Aber and Laura B. Rawlings

56501: Bringing financial literacy and education to low and middle income countries: the need to review, adjust, and extend current wisdom

Robert Holzmann

56092: Disability and international cooperation and development: a review of policies and practices

Janet Lord, Aleksandra Posarac, Marco Nicoli, Karen Peffley, Charlotte Mcclain-Nhlapo and Mary Keogh

55674: Key characteristics of employment regulation in the Middle East and North Africa

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Arvo Kuddo

55673: Non-public provision of active labor market programs in Arab- Mediterranean countries: an inventory of youth programs

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Amina Semlali and Stefanie Brodmann

54967: The investment in job training: why are SMEs lagging so much behind?

Rita Almeida and Reyes Aterido

53889: Toolkit on tackling error, fraud and corruption in social protection programs

Christian van Stolk and Emil D. Tesliuc

53696: The Korean case study: past experience and new trends in training policies

Young-Sun Ra and Kyung Woo Shim

52999: Labor market policy research for developing countries: recent examples from the literature - what do we know and what should we know?

Maria Sanchez Puerta

52919: Rethinking survivor benefits

Estelle James

52449: Migration pressures and immigration policies: new evidence on the selection of migrants

Johanna Avato

52448: Ex-ante methods to assess the impact of social insurance policies on labor supply with an application to Brazil

David Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn, Helio Zylberstajn and Luís Afonso

52447: How much do Latin American pension programs promise to pay back?

Alvaro Forteza and Guzmán Ourens

52446: Work histories and pension entitlements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

Alvaro Forteza, Ignacio Apella, Eduardo Fajnzylber, Carlos Grushka, Ianina Rossi and Graciela Sanroman

52445: Indexing pensions

John Piggott and Renuka Sane

52188: Towards comprehensive training

Jean Fares and Olga Susana Puerto

52187: A review of national training funds

Richard Johanson

52186: Pre-employment vocational education and training in Korea

ChangKyun Chae and Jaeho Chung

51698: Labor laws in Eastern European and Central Asian countries: minimum norms and practices

Arvo Kuddo

51254: Openness and technological innovation in East Asia: have they increased the demand for skills?

Rita Almeida

51253: Employment services and active labor market programs in Eastern European and Central Asian countries

Arvo Kuddo

51251: Productivity increases in SMEs: with special emphasis on in-service training of workers in Korea

Kye Lee Woo

50671: Firing cost and firm size: a study of Sri Lanka's severance pay system

Babatunde Abidoye, Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

50670: Building a targeting system for Bangladesh based on proxy means testing

Iffath A. Sharif

50320: Savings for unemployment in good or bad times: options for developing countries

David Robalino, Milan Vodopivec and Andras Bodor

49802: Human trafficking, modern day slavery, and economic exploitation

Johannes Koettl

49174: Social protection for migrants from the Pacific Islands in Australia and New Zealand

Geoff Woolford

49173: Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America: overview and assessment

Ana Ferrer and W. Craig Riddell

49172: Definitions, good practices, and global estimates on the status of social protection for international migrants

Johanna Avato, Johannes Koettl and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

49171: Regional overview of social protection for non-citizens in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Marius Olivier

49170: Introducing unemployment insurance to developing countries

Milan Vodopivec

49168: Social protection for refugees and asylum seekers in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)

Mpho Makhema

49167: Slavery and human trafficking international law and the role of the World Bank

Maria Fernanda Perez Solla

48567: How to make public works work: a review of the experiences

Carlo del Ninno, Kalanidhi Subbarao and Annamaria Milazzo

47679: Pension systems for the informal sector in Asia

Landis MacKellar

47357: Highly labor-intensive public works in Madagascar: issues and policy options

Nirina Andrianjaka Haja and Annamaria Milazzo