Rebekka Grun von Jolk

• PhD
• Practice Leader at World Bank

Burkina Faso has long relied on energy subsidies to facilitate the access of the population to energy products. However, there is no evidence that they contribute to monetary nor energy poverty reduction. This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of fossil fuel subsidies in alleviating monetary and energy poverty in Burkina Faso, focusing on Liqu...

Burkina Faso has long relied on energy subsidies to facilitate the access of the population to energy products. However, there is no evidence that they contribute to monetary nor energy poverty reduction. This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of energy subsidies in alleviating monetary and energy poverty in Burkina Faso, focusing on gas and f...

Adaptive Social Protection programs are increasingly implemented in fragile and insecure contexts in the Sahel. What are the emerging approaches and concrete ways to operate effectively in such high-risk conditions? This paper provides a framework, key principles, and a repertoire of options for adapting social safety net projects to unprecedented...

The government of Burkina Faso has a strong interest in strengthening its social safety nets provision to better support the country’s poorest and most vulnerable households. It has demonstrated this commitment through past investments in social protection. Against a backdrop of limited public finances and budgetary constraints, it is critical to e...

During the past two decades, research of economists, psychologists and biologists has pointed to the Early Years as the key phase to intervene for sustainable economic and social wellbeing. In both the developed and the developing world, policy makers have picked up on the evidence and started programs to foster human capital in these years. Often,...

Entrepreneurship education has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. In Tunisia, a curricular reform created an entrepreneurship track providing business training and coaching to help university students prepare a business plan. We rely on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on s...

Despite Turkey’s strong economic performance and rich job creation in recent years, the Turkish labor market continues to suffer persistent low activity rates and low labor productivity. About half of the Turkish working-age population (WAP) does not enter the labor market and nearly 40 percent of workers are informal (holding jobs without social s...

This joint study, by the World Bank and the Turkish Ministry of Development, explores the status and effects of good jobs in Turkey’s current economy. After a brief account of economic events, it examines the relationship between growth and employment in Turkey, with a particular regard to the participation of different social groups in the labor m...

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, when thousands of young women and men fought for the opportunity to realize their aspirations and potential, the question of jobs continues to be crucial in the Middle East and North Africa region. This report uses jobs as a lens to weave together the complex dynamics of employment creation, skills supply, and t...

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunis...

The lives of girls and women have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The pace of change has been astonishing in some areas, but in others, progress toward gender equality has been limited—even in developed countries. This year's World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development argues that gender equality is a core develop...

With the ultimate objective to raise awareness and empower the community of patients served, the report sought to provide a thorough diagnosis of service and management quality in public primary care facilities, and of perception and utilization of these services by households in their catchment area. In order to achieve the above objectives, the p...

Le présent rapport est le second volet de l’enquête de suivi de l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes diplômés dans la vie active, initiée par le Ministère de l’Emploi et de l’Insertion Professionnelle des Jeunes en collaboration avec la Banque Mondiale. Cette deuxième vague suit la logique de la première vague auprès de 4.763 diplômés du supérieu...

This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult to carry to a new place. When confronted with exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migrati...

Why should governments think about financing Early Childhood Development (ECD)? Because the private market for ECD usually fails, and this for two major reasons: (i) information asymmetry. Parents usually have trouble judging the quality of childcare adequately, so their inclination to pay for it does not reflect the resources needed; and (ii) th...

Households in rural Colombia are confronted with a variety of violent threats: attacks and displacement threats by guerrillas and paramilitaries, gang violence among drug traffickers, and high common delinquency. In this context, households have to adjust their day-to-day decisions, including saving and portfolio choices, in order to be less vulner...

L’étude sur les mécanismes de financement de la micro-entreprise a été réalisée par le Ministère de l’Emploi et de l’Insertion Professionnelle des Jeunes en étroite collaboration avec la Banque Tunisienne de Solidarité (BTS), et l’appui technique de la Banque mondiale. Le principal objectif poursuivi par cette étude est d’analyser la situation des...

Technical report on the sampling strategy and sample composition of the database used for the tracer study on microfinance projects of the BTS in Tunisia.

This paper attempts to be a practical step-by-step guide to prepare and carry out benchmarking and impact analyses of projects. It's purpose is to attempt to present analytical tools solidly grounded in economic theory all while focusing on the practical questions of evaluations. Little space is given to theory, in order to spend more time on the a...

Introduction: Generating more and better quality jobs with higher productivity probably constitutes the most important challenge the Maghreb countries will face over the next decade. Despite relatively high and sustained economic growth since 2004, employment creation has been insufficient to significantly reduce unemployment, or to absorb the flow...