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Since the Bank’s last report more than thirty years ago on Industrialization and Foreign Trade, the world has been transformed, mostly in positive terms from a development perspective. Several low and middle income countries can now participate globally thanks to global value chains (GVCs).
Deadline: 28-Mar-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The primary purpose of the consultancy will be to implement baseline and end-line surveys of jobseekers who register to participate with ISKUR. This baseline will be important for a study of the impact of the employment support program and its component parts on employment and other outcomes of program participants and their families. The survey will be conducted with jobseekers in their homes, with the aim of collecting information on socioeconomic status and work, migration and education histories from the jobseeker, and basic demographic, employment and education information on other co-residing household members and important family members (e.g., educational attainment of parents and numbers, gender age and location of children).
Blockchain has been called a pillar of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, comparing it to
technologies such as the steam engine and the internet that triggered previous industrial revolutions. It has the power to disrupt existing economic and business models and may prove particularly valuable in emerging market economies. According to experts, blockchain also holds great promise as a method of fighting corruption, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where more smartphone penetration can facilitate the adoption of new technology.
Improving the capacity of national statistical systems (NSSs) has long been a part of the 
global development agenda. The NSSs play an important role in modern economies. They provide stakeholders, ranging from policy makers to stock market analysts and the general public, with the data on the country’s socioeconomic developments. At the international level, monitoring global initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires high-quality data that are produced consistently across different national statistical systems.
Deadline: 16-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The objective of this assignment is to prepare a feasibility level design for the proposed (approximately) 60km section of the Naoro-Brown Hydropower Access Road with a Class 4 Bill of Quantities (BoQ) cost estimate.
As digital technology continues to transform and reshape the transportation industry 
over the last few years, blockchain as a decentralized distributed technology has been embraced by other fields through various applications. It has found varied applications across banking, financial services, healthcare, e-governance, and voting.
In the era of digital technology, the structure of production as well as the interaction 
between humans and machines is being redefined. The diffusion and application of digital technology can increase productivity in an unprecedented manner, with potential to reshape the role of humans in the function of production. Jobs are the drivers of development and pillars of resilience for people. Five years ago, the World Development Report (WDR 2014), Risk and Opportunity – Managing Risk for Development, highlighted the role of enterprises in supporting people’s risk management by absorbing shocks and exploiting the opportunity side of risk. There have been heated debates on how technology may lead to risks, such as job loss and structural changes of employment. While the risks are real, the estimates of the impact of digital technology on employment vary widely, from substantial job loss for both skilled and the unskilled workers, to potential job gains thanks to the complementarity of humans and machines, as well as the income and wealth effect derived from higher productivity.
Deadline: 21-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Requiring an eligible firm to provide software development services for a World Bank program related to improving village service delivery. The assignment will require the firm to design, develop, test, verify, commission various web based and mobile applications (incl. UI/UX and backend), based on latest software development frameworks. The firm will build, operate and transfer the complete technology to the respective government ministry for scaling the application at the project completion. The firm will also be required to pass a cyber-security audit from another agency, as per agreed terms and conditions with the end user of the application. The firm will provide complete documentation including design documents, testing/verification documents and source codes (with updated tracking changes) to the end user at the completion of the project. The firm will also provide technical support and assistance for a period of one year or more to the end user after the project completion.
Deadline: 21-Feb-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The assignment requires an eligible firm well-experienced in human-centered design to develop suitable UI/UX interface designs and dashboards for a number of different smartphone and web-based applications related to improving village service delivery. This assignment will require the firm to conduct key informant/expert interviews, focus groups, targeted surveys and other similar studies using the human centered design approach in at least 10 different locations throughout Indonesia.
Our world is very different than our grandparent’s. In 1950, there were about 2.5 billion 
people; today, there are more than 7 billion. Overall, people are healthier, wealthier, and more secure.
But this has come at a cost. The stress on our planet has been immense. Human beings have dramatically altered the climate, changed the chemistry of the oceans, and triggered mass extinctions. The impact has been so great as to define an entirely new geological era — the Anthropocene, turbo charged by a “great acceleration” of population, economic growth and natural resource consumption since the 1950s.
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