Faced with the urgency of climate change
mitigation, many governments around the world are
considering and deploying different approaches to pricing
greenhouse gas emissions....
By 2023, more than 108 million people
were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18
constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human
development gaps...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10765Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Hiller,Tatiana ;
Moya,Andrés ;
Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana
This study documents the impacts of
climate change on firm-level productivity by matching a
globally comparable and standardized survey of
nonagricultural firms covering...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10762Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Kassa,Woubet ;
Woldemichael,Andinet
Technological progress has the potential
to cause significant disruption in labor markets. This
report examines the impact of computers, robots, AI, and
improved ICT...
Type: ReportReport#: 189900Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Moroz,Harry Edmund ;
Viollaz,Mariana
This study is a first-ever attempt to
gain a 360° panoramic view of spending in the
entire global water sector to better understand the
financing and funding gaps...
Type: ReportReport#: 189915Date: May 6, 2024Author:
George Joseph ;
Hoo,Yi Rong ;
Wang,Qiao ;
Bahuguna,Aroha ;
Andres,Luis Alberto
This paper documents that senior plant
managers in less-developed countries spend more time dealing
with government rules and regulations than their
counterparts in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10761Date: May 3, 2024Author:
Tamkoc,Mehmet Nazim ;
Ventura,Gustavo
The Country Opinion Survey in Somalia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding
how stakeholders in Somalia perceive the WBG. It provides
the WBG with...
Type: ReportReport#: 190371Date: May 3, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper studies how air quality
around combustion power plants changes in response to
hydrological droughts that affect hydropower generation.
Using fixed-effect...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10760Date: May 3, 2024Author:
Eriksson,Mathilda ;
del Valle,Alejandro ;
De La Fuente,Alejandro
Persons with disabilities are
particularly vulnerable, as they suffer disproportionately
from social and economic stigmatization and various forms of
exclusion. Intensifying...
Type: ReportReport#: 189798Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Choi,Narae ;
Ba,Sokhna ;
Coulibaly,Mamani Massiri ;
Newman,Charles Kevin ;
Hasoloan,Jonathan Todo ;
Semichon, Marine ;
Ayih-Akakpo, Ayih M. Arnold ;
Boltz, Caroline ;
Diagne,Mamadou ;
Seck, Mokhtar ;
Varnai, Bea
The impacts of climatic shocks are
already being felt across Europe and are bound to intensify
in line with further climate change. Even rapid and
far-reaching progress...
Type: ReportReport#: 189810Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Senegal has a population of
approximately 18 million people, with almost half of its
citizens living in urban areas, well ahead of the
Sub-Saharan average. The vulnerability...
Type: BriefReport#: 189801Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The ongoing conflict in Yemen is
estimated to have led to the loss of around 377,000 lives by
2022, out of a total population of 33.7 million. 3.4 million
people need...
Type: BriefReport#: 189800Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
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