The White Paper on Universal Health
Coverage (UHC) for Saint Lucia provides key policy
directions and strategies for achieving UHC in the country.
It outlines various...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 192929Date: July 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The volume and number of remittances to
Nicaragua increased substantially during the COVID-19
pandemic. Using administrative data from the largest bank in
Nicaragua,...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 173852Date: May 31, 2022Author:
De La Fuente,Alejandro ;
Gine,Xavier ;
Meritxell Martinez ;
Perova,Elizaveta ;
Reichert,Arndt Rudiger
The World Bank is by far the largest
donor for education in developing countries. It currently
manages a portfolio of 180 projects worth US$23.3 billion
and accounting...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 172883Date: May 1, 2022Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Vasconcellos,Bernardo Da Cruz ;
Mcdonald,Laura S. ;
Cameron,Emma Ward Richardson
Several key gender issues likely act as
an impediment to poverty reduction and shared prosperity in
Sudan. While many of these issues are common across
countries in...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 162594Date: June 16, 2020Author:
Osman,Eiman Adil Mohamed
The World Bank prepared this policy note
at the request of the Montenegrin Ministry of Finance (MoF)
to formulate a diagnostic of the current situation of local
self-governments...
The main purpose of this policy note is
to analyze key issues related to: (i) the wage bill; (ii)
wider issues of how the public service in South Sudan has
evolved;...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: ACS13610Date: February 1, 2015
The World Bank supports the free online
communication and exchange of knowledge as the most
effective way of ensuring that the fruits of research,
economic and sector...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 67830Date: April 1, 2012
Records are critical to the delivery of
World Bank Group (WBG) programs and services. They enable
the WBG to hold itself accountable to its own policies, as
well as...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 79843Date: September 1, 2011
This report presents the procedures
which are intended to support World Bank Group (WBG) staff
in implementing administrative manual statement (AMS) 10.11
management...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 88974Date: June 6, 2011
This statement sets out the policy of
the World Bank on public access to information in its
possession. The policy supersedes the World Bank policy on
disclosure of...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 54873Date: July 1, 2010
Despite its image as a self-sustaining
region in agricultural production, about one-third of the
population of LAC lives in net food importing countries, and
most of...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 70796Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Stokenberga,Aiga ;
Wilmsmeier,Gordon
This report provides an overview of the
main legal, regulatory, and institutional bottlenecks
adversely affecting the food safety system in Ukraine, as a
way to raise...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 48669Date: March 1, 2009
In the last-one-and-a-half decades,
there has been an annual average expenditure of about one
billion United State (US) dollars in the rural water supply
sector in India....
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 44791Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Misra, Smita
There are a large number of multi
village water supply schemes (including regional schemes) in
India. The prime motivation for setting up multi village
schemes is based...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 44792Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Misra, Smita
There is an impression that the
willingness to pay (WTP) and affordability of rural
households for water supply is not sufficient to cover the
operation and maintenance...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 44790Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Misra,Smita
A basic premise of this paper is that
carefully implemented agricultural research can be an
efficient source of economic growth and is an important
contributor to the...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 10203Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Goering,Theodore J.
Most developing countries are
characterized by a rapidly growing population and labor
force. While much of this labor force will be absorbed in
traditional agriculture,...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 11025Date: February 28, 1978
The financing of development finance
companies (DFCs) has been the World Bank's major
mechanism for assisting medium-scale productive enterprises
in member countries....
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 11020Date: April 30, 1976
This paper on urban transport is set in
the broader context of the critical problem for developing
countries of urbanization. The paper states that urban
development...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 11024Date: May 31, 1975
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