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Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (RSMFP) matches aspiring development economics researchers from developing countries with World Bank research economists creating unique opportunities for the fellows to participate in rigorous policy-relevant research in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC). Fellows will be hosted at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for 8 months (September to May each year) and work under the supervision of researchers in the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) and Development Research Group departments, engaging in hig...

Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 1 of 3 Over the past few years, two research departments in the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DECVP), namely the Development Research Group (DRG) and the Development Impact Evaluation unit (DIME) have recruited 24 researchers. Many of these junior researchers joined the World Bank during a period, in which they could not physically come to the office and meet with us, schedule coffee and lunch meetings with our operational colleagues, or attend conferences and give seminars in person to broaden their networks. To somewhat ameliorate this ...

Workers from the garment sector block a road during a protest to demand payment of due wages, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2020. They claimed that factories had not paid them after retailers and brands cancelled orders due to worldwide lockdown measures. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images) Everybody knows that the pandemic has had a chilling impact on people's daily lives. But how bad is it? And in particular, how are people faring in countries that aren't as well-off as, say, the United States or European nations? A study published in February in the journal Science Advances aims to pro...

San Francisco-based AI training company Samasource is now Sama, says CEO Wendy Gonzalez. Sama is a for-profit training-data company focused on annotating data for artificial intelligence algorithms. It provides work for low-income individuals in developing countries through the digital economy. The international company also has an office in Montreal, in Mile-Ex. Sama is akin to a “profit purpose” company, having previously served as a non-profit entity. Its solutions include image, video and sensor data annotation and validation for machine learning algorithms for a wide span of big-name...

World Bank, EU ready to provide technical support for Ukraine to launch farmland reform   A roadmap for further joint work within the Land Reform Steering Committee is expected to be finalized in early February.   The World Bank and the European Union stand ready to provide technical support and other resources for Ukraine to successfully implement farmland reform.   This was stated by Klaus Deininger, Lead Economist in the Sustainability and Infrastructure Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, according to Ukraine's Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agricu...