High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS)
reveal that people in Kenya were aware of Covid-19 at the
start of the pandemic and followed safety precautions even
one year after...
This study aims to explore ways in which
key competencies of the oil and gas industry could be
leveraged to support the diversification of the Chadian
economy. The analysis...
Type: ReportReport#: 163050Date: June 11, 2021Author:
World Bank
This note presents main findings of the
GovTech Snapshot Assessment for Georgia, forming part of a
larger World Bank global engagement on GovTech and Advisory
Services...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS0002349Date: June 10, 2021Author:
Plangemann,Kathrin A. ;
Rusu,Constantin ;
Gvenetadze,Irakli ;
Irakli ;
Junowicz,Gabriela Magali ;
Magali
The global weather enterprise creates
high value weather and climate information that produce a
wide range of social and economic benefits, including the
protection...
Type: BriefReport#: 160253Date: June 10, 2021Author:
Thorpe,Alan John ;
Rogers, David P.
This note presents main findings of the
GovTech snapshot assessment for Armenia forming part of a
larger World Bank global engagement on GovTech and Advisory
Services...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160405Date: June 10, 2021Author:
Plangemann,Kathrin A. ;
Rusu,Constantin
This note presents main findings of the
GovTech Snapshot Assessment for Azerbaijan, forming part of
a larger World Bank global engagement on GovTech and
Advisory Services...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160406Date: June 10, 2021Author:
Plangemann,Kathrin A. ;
Rusu,Constantin
Considering that about 15 percent of
global gross domestic product flows through public
procurement systems, the lack of systematic evidence on what
works in this field...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9690Date: June 8, 2021Author:
Fazekas,Mihály ;
Blum,Jurgen Rene
Since the introduction of the
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in the 1970’s, there
has been widespread interest in understanding the impact of
non-reciprocal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160075Date: June 7, 2021
In May 2020, the National Statistical
Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the
High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the
socio-economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 160052Date: June 4, 2021Author:
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
Central America’s priority is
to recover from its deepest economic contraction and restore
strong, sustainable economic growth. With increases in
working age...
Type: ReportReport#: 158448Date: June 3, 2021Author:
Ulku,Hulya ;
Zaourak,Gabriel Roberto
This report presents the evaluation of
Biscate, a digital labor market matching platform for
informal services workers in Mozambique. The platform aims
to facilitate...
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
Celsius , in line with the Paris Agreement (PA), requires
that global annual greenhouse gas emissions are cut by 50
percent of...
In 2005, the parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
began to formally set up a framework for financially
incentivizing emissions...
This report lists the sources and
scripts used to migrate content from the Office of the
Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India (ORGI)
website to the new Census...
As innovation in retail payments
continues and the systems evolve, effective governance of
them becomes more complicated and increases in importance.
Retail payment...
Type: ReportReport#: 163464Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Ramteke,Nilima Chhabilal ;
Banka,Holti ;
Jensen,Peter Christian Moeller ;
Mortimer-Schutts,Ivan Daniel
The resilience of the Lebanese port
sector has proven to be low. The impact of the ongoing
economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Port of
Beirut (PoB) explosion...
Type: ReportReport#: 162435Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Souhaid,Anne Cecile Sophie ;
Desmarchelier,Arnaud ;
Hartmann,Olivier ;
Saragiotis,Periklis ;
Bezzina,Jerome ;
Ollivier,Pascal
Financial inclusion occurs when adults
have access to appropriate, affordable, and well-regulated
financial services to meet their needs effectively and
improve their...
Type: BriefReport#: 161098Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Hess,Jake Richard ;
Klapper,Leora ;
Beegle,Kathleen G.
Procurement of commonly used items is a
challenge for government agencies. If the items are
repeatedly purchased in one-off fashion, so that the total
volume is significant,...
Type: ReportReport#: 162226Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Lal,Shanker ;
Cocciolo,Serena Sara Daniela ;
Samaddar,Sushmita ;
Pereira De Carvalho,Danilo ;
Arisoy,Elmas ;
Sharma,Vinay
The World Bank (WB) has been monitoring
closely the developments of fast payment systems (FPS) by
central banks and private players across the globe. This
comprehensive...
Having a single, universally applicable
tool for measuring the state of a country’s justice sector
can help judiciaries worldwide identify areas where each
could improve...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 159618Date: May 28, 2021Author:
Decker,Klaus
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