South Asia region’s economies continue
on a recovery path, with production and export having
recovered to pre-COVID trend levels. But the recovery has
been uneven across...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164923Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Mercer-Blackman,Valerie Anne ;
Xie,Leiyu ;
Sharma,Siddharth ;
Timmer,Hans ;
Kherous Allaoua,Zoubida
Saudi Arabia is at an early stage of its
demographic transition to an older population, and so it has
an opportunity to prepare early for a rising noncommunicable
disease...
Type: PublicationReport#: 166059Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Alqunaibet, Ada ;
Herbst,Christopher H. ;
El-Saharty,Sameh ;
Algwizani, Abdullah
This book presents a heavily disruptive,
inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging
food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the
benefits...
Despite legal and social advances in the
past two decades, sexual orientation and gender identity
(SOGI) people continue to face widespread discrimination and
violence...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164560Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Cortez,Clifton John ;
Arzinos,Ioannis ;
De La Medina Soto,Christian
This report examines the region’s
economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery
will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level
stays below pre-pandemic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164920Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Gatti,Roberta V. ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Fan,Yuting ;
Hatefi,Arian ;
Nguyen, Ha ;
Sautmann,Anja ;
Sax,Joseph Martin ;
Wood,Christina A.
This book offers an in-depth analysis of
the concept of the direct enforcement of foreign restraint
and confiscation orders, a crucial step in the process of
asset recovery,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 166909Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Betti,Stefano ;
Kozin, Vladimir ;
Brun,Jean Pierre
This book presents a heavily disruptive,
inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging
food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the
benefits...
Governments have been using technology
to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank
Group (WBG) has been a partner in this process, providing
both financing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164081Date: September 17, 2021Author:
Dener,Cem ;
Nii-Aponsah,Hubert ;
Ghunney,Love Emma ;
Johns,Kimberly D.
Throughout history, industrialization
has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of
premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation
technologies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164078Date: September 16, 2021
Throughout history, industrialization
has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of
premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation
technologies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164078Date: September 16, 2021Author:
Nayyar,Gaurav ;
Hallward-Driemeier,Mary C. ;
Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin
South Asia is heavily impacted by the
devastating loss of lives and human capital from the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the converging
technology revolution sweeping...
Type: PublicationReport#: 163876Date: September 8, 2021Author:
Bashir,Sajitha ;
Dahlman,Carl J. ;
Kanehira,Naoto ;
Tilmes,Klaus
Migration shapes the lives of those who
move and transforms the geographies and economies of their
points of departure and destinations alike. The water
sector, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 163276Date: August 24, 2021
Human capital is a central determinant
of economic well-being and social advancement in the modern
world economy. The concept of human capital covers the
knowledge,...
The majority of the world’s children
live in countries where local governments are responsible
for the provision of basic education services. Although
subnational governments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 161583Date: June 25, 2021
This is a conference edition for
publication expected in November 2020. Building the Right
Skills for Human Capital summarizes the findings from the
2019 skills survey...
Type: PublicationReport#: 153239Date: June 14, 2021Author:
Hou,Dingyong ;
Acevedo Gonzalez,Karina Margarita ;
De Laat,Joost ;
Larrison,Jennica
This report provides an up-to-date
overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments
around the world, including international, national and
subnational initiatives....
To improve their education systems,
countries around the world have increasingly initiated
national largescale assessment programs or participated in
international or...
Type: PublicationReport#: 158570Date: June 1, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the
Organisation for Economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164763Date: June 1, 2021Author:
UNESCO ;
UNICEF ;
World Bank ;
OECD
To improve their education systems,
countries around the world have increasingly initiated
national largescale assessment programs or participated in
international or...
Type: PublicationReport#: 158570Date: June 1, 2021
The world economy is experiencing a very
strong but uneven recovery, with many emerging market and
developing economies facing obstacles to vaccination. The
global outlook...
Type: PublicationReport#: 160157Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Baffes,John ;
Guenette,Justin Damien ;
Ha,Jongrim ;
Inami,Osamu ;
Kabundi,Alain Ntumba ;
Kasyanenko,Sergiy ;
Kilic Celik,Sinem ;
Kindberg-Hanlon,Gene ;
Kirby,Patrick Alexander ;
Nagle,Peter Stephen Oliver ;
Okou,Cedric Iltis Finafa ;
Quaglietti,Lucia ;
Ruch,Franz Ulrich ;
Sugawara,Naotaka ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T. ;
Vorisek,Dana Lauren ;
Wheeler,Collette Mari ;
Yamazaki,Takefumi
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