The Sudanese economy has faced several
shocks over the years, sometimes resulting in devastating
impacts on the economy and the welfare of Sudanese
households. The sources...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 162609Date: October 1, 2019
As Indonesia’s economic is growing, the
country’s eligibility to external financing has become more
limited. The sustainability of traditionally donor-funded
programs...
This report aims to map poverty and
inequality in Sudan and would be representative of the 18
states and 131 localities of Sudan. The poverty mapping
technique is based...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 162608Date: August 1, 2019
Shifting consumer demand and
accelerating climate change will further shape the agri-food
sector in Croatia in the next decade. Consumers in high
value markets in the...
Croatia has made significant economic
progress since independence, but the global financial crisis
has exposed weaknesses in its economy and growth model.
While growth...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 158429Date: July 1, 2019Author:
De Rosa,Donato ;
Funda,Josip ;
Pauna,Catalin ;
Crvik Oreskovic,Stanka ;
Krtinic,Bogdanka ;
Milutinovic,Darjan ;
Bobetko,Alan ;
Andronova Vincelette,Gallina ;
Van Den Brink,Rogier J. E.
This paper investigates the
distributional direct welfare impact on households resulting
from fuel subsidy removal. Note that this analysis focuses
only on the direct...
While poverty continued to fall for a
second consecutive year, cumulative progress has not reached
levels achieved before the slowdown in 2013. Between 2003
and 2018...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 150415Date: May 25, 2019
The 2012 national health policy is the
overarching health policy framework in Zambia. The policy
takes a human rights approach to health care provision,
where all citizens...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 137377Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Masiye,Felix ;
Chansa,Collins
Using the most recent household survey
data, this paper examines the characteristics of Sudan’s
labor market as it relates to poverty outcomes. Several
important aspects...
There is an increasing amount of
literature discussing the integration of humanitarian
assistance into social protection systems or the linkage of
disaster risk responses...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 135674Date: March 1, 2019Author:
Aldaba,Fernando T.
This policy note was prepared in
parallel to the report Pakistan at hundred - shaping the
future. The report Pakistan at hundred discusses options to
accelerate and...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 135326Date: March 1, 2019Author:
Muhula,Raymond ;
Rontoyanni,Clelia Kalliopi Helena ;
Mehboob,Rizwan ;
Shafqat,Saeed ;
Khalid,Usman ;
Shrestha,Pragya ;
Afzal,Madiha ;
Refaqat,Saadia ;
Osborne,Michael Graeme ;
Raza,Haider ;
Minallah,Akmal ;
Hadi,Qurat Ul Ain ;
Steinhilper,Immanuel Frank ;
Touqeer,Irum ;
Khan,Ayesha Ahmad Saleem
This policy brief presents findings and
policy implications of Zambia’s national health accounts
(NHA) study for the period 2013 to 2016. By design, the NHA
survey framework...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 137385Date: December 1, 2018
Sudan’s medium-term national development
policy framework is embodied in the Interim Poverty
Reduction Strategy Paper (IPRSP). The paper was formulated
in 2012 in the...
This Note chronicles the Philippine’s
experience in undertaking a national household targeting
system—Listahanan—which has had two rounds of implementation
since developed...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 132110Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Velarde,Rashiel Besana
Benefits and rules of bonded
manufacturing are often discretionary. Bonded manufacturing
is a form of temporary admission, which is equivalent to
suspended import duty....
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 130022Date: September 19, 2018
The average annual FDI inflow in
Bangladesh is significantly lower than comparable
economies.Over the past decade (2007 to 2017), inflows have
averaged at 0.9 percent...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 130023Date: September 19, 2018
Bangladesh has set up an ambitious
target of attaining middle-income status by 2021. To achieve
this objective, the economy needs to grow at a sustained
rate of 7.5-8...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 130021Date: September 19, 2018
Bangladesh’s export growth has been
remarkable. Bangladesh aims to generate $54.1 billion in
export earnings by FY2020, a significant increase over the
$35 billion earned...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 130025Date: September 19, 2018
Bangladesh slipped one place to 177 in
the Doing Business rankings for 2018. This is the second
lowest among South Asian economies (Afghanistan is at 183).
The country’s...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 130026Date: September 19, 2018
With the end of the oil economy in 2011,
Sudan’s regime of subsidies for wheat and fuel became
increasingly unsustainable. The loss of oil revenues in the
wake of the...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 162612Date: September 1, 2018
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