The Project Screening and Analytics Tool
(PSAT, or Tool) is a decision making tool that builds on an
earlier version of the Infrastructure Finance,
Public-Private Partnerships...
Type: ReportReport#: 166774Date: December 3, 2021Author:
World Bank
The development objective of Tunisia
Delivery Unit Project is to endow the Prime
Minister’s (PM) Office with an innovative and
efficient delivery unit dedicated...
Type: ReportReport#: 170084Date: October 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
Rising sea levels in the atoll nation of
Marshall Islands are projected to endanger 40 percent of
existing buildings in the capital, Majuro, with 96 percent
of the city...
Type: BriefReport#: 171867Date: October 28, 2021Author:
Wyatt,Hamish ;
Smithies,Kym Louise
Tonga has one of the highest rates of
overweight and obesity in the world. As a result, Tonga has
seen a significant increase in the number of premature
deaths from...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 164768Date: October 5, 2021
Heavy episodic drinking or binge
drinking is a major concern in Tonga. With alcohol affecting
blood sugar levels, there is a strong link between alcohol
and non-communicable...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 164767Date: October 5, 2021
Tonga is one of the Pacific Island
Countries (PICs) with high tobacco consumption prevalence.
Smokers get younger; the prevalence of tobacco use among
school children...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 164770Date: October 5, 2021
Tonga has experienced a high burden of
noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the past two decades. The
increase in behavioral-related risk factors such as smoking,
poor...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 164769Date: October 5, 2021
The 2020 State of the Sector Report
builds on the analyses from the 2019 report to close further
data gaps. It focuses on how ASM’s contribution to the
achievement of...
Type: ReportReport#: 163571Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Mcquilken,James Thomas ;
Perks,Rachel Bernice
According to the latest figures found on
Delve, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) employs at
least 40 million people worldwide. Yet, unlike more familiar
rural...
Type: ReportReport#: 163585Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Hilson,Gavin Michael ;
Mcquilken,James Thomas ;
Perks,Rachel Bernice ;
Faulkner,Sally ;
Lahiri-Dutt,Kuntala ;
Primus,Urica ;
Smith,Ekwa ;
Singo,Patience
At the time of independence, in 1991,
Ukraine had a monolithic state-run power sector. Its main
concern was to transform the sector into a more efficient
and competitive...
Type: ReportReport#: 168507Date: July 31, 2021Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
This legal study has been developed as a
part of the World Bank’s work on ‘Building Resilience in
Pacific Atoll Island Countries’ which aims to strengthen the
capacity...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0002370Date: June 29, 2021Author:
Freestone,David ;
Cicek,Duygu
This report focuses on the workshop
which presented the findings and recommendations of the
World Bank report, using taxation to address the rise of
noncommunicable...
As part of the dissemination strategy of
the evaluation report of Tonga’s NCD taxation policy, the
government of Tonga and the World Bank team jointly
conducted a series...
In the early 1990s,
Colombia’s publicly owned power sector was
financially distressed and poorly managed, becoming a risk
for the country’s macroeconomic...
Type: ReportReport#: 168506Date: May 31, 2021Author:
Rudnick Van De Wyngard,Hugh ;
Velásquez, Constantin
By the late 1980s, Peru was in a
desperate macroeconomic situation and its power sector was
in crisis due to distorted tariffs, poor performing
utilities and frequent...
Type: ReportReport#: 168508Date: May 31, 2021Author:
Rudnick Van De Wyngard,Hugh ;
Velásquez, Constantin
This brief outlines the design and
results of an impact evaluation of the Implementation of the
Social Accountability Framework (ISAF) in Cambodia. The ISAF
was developed...
On 1 January 2020, Egypt’s government
implemented a new law that makes extensive changes to the
country's social insurance pension system, including
coverage, financing,...
The Reimbursable Advisory Services
Agreement on Technical Assistance to Enhance Quality
Assurance in Higher Education System in Romania aims to
improve the capacity...
The World Bank Institute (WBI) launched
the contract monitoring initiative (CMI) with the goal of
enhancing the capacity of organizations engaged in
monitoring procurement...
The World Bank Institute open government
practice (WBIOG) provides cutting-edge knowledge and
capacity building opportunities to practitioners in the
public and private...
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