This Guide for Municipalities is
intended for use by municipal officers and service providers
concerned with: (a) policies and programs that influence
waste generation...
Type: ReportReport#: 165392Date: October 21, 2021Author:
Madariaga,Lila ;
Morton,John
Many developing countries face severe
electricity constraints, which are reflected in low
electrification rates, frequent and prolonged outages, and
high electricity...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9815Date: October 21, 2021Author:
Hovhannisyan,Shoghik ;
Stamm,Kersten Kevin
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly
disrupted Chad’s economic recovery, which started in 2018.
GDP contracted by 0.9 percent in 2020. Agriculture and the
oil sector...
Water in agriculture is central to
feeding the planet, providing livelihoods, and building
resilience to climate shocks and extremes. To support the
Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
This is a statement by Dr. Qu Dongyu,
Director-General, Budget and the Banking Sector, at the
104th meeting of the Development Committee held on October
15, 2021....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 165338Date: October 15, 2021
Do Sahelian countries face specific
risks of water-related conflict? Sahelian countries face
growing fragility and climate
challenges—especially those belonging...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9805Date: October 12, 2021Author:
Khan,Amjad Muhammad ;
Rodella,Aude-Sophie
In Nepal, the lockdowns that were
adopted to mitigate the public health impacts of Coronavirus
(COVID-19) were accompanied by a significant contraction in
economic activity....
Type: ReportReport#: 160705Date: October 6, 2021Author:
World Bank
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
This paper proposes a simple and
flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the “deep”
impact of trade liberalization and the “hard” effects of
protection with...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9791Date: October 4, 2021Author:
Larch,Mario ;
Tan,Shawn Weiming ;
Yotov,Yoto Valentinov
The prices of 27 internationally traded
commodities are decomposed into transitory and permanent
shocks by applying an ideal band-pass filter to monthly data
from 1970–2020....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9792Date: October 4, 2021Author:
Baffes,John ;
Kabundi,Alain Ntumba
The Country Opinion Survey in Togo
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Togo perceive the WBG.
It provides the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168457Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Caribbean small island developing states
(SIDS) depend heavily on their limited natural resources,
with the largest sectors generally being agriculture,
fisheries, and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 165574Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Makara,Nadia Natali
This is a tip sheet for World Bank task
teams on Illustrative Climate Change Actions on Adaptation
Opportunities in Social Protection and Jobs Projects.
It is now clear that a narrow focus on
the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) is insufficient
to achieve humanity’s aspirations for sustainable
prosperity. Well-functioning...
Type: PublicationReport#: 165689Date: October 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
Agricultural innovation has played a
critical role in the economic transformation of developing
East Asian countries over the past half century. The Green
Revolution,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 166739Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Rajalahti,Riikka
Governments, development institutions,
and the private sector are increasingly turning to
nature-based solutions to address the world’s climate and
biodiversity crisis....
Type: ReportReport#: 165782Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Frechette,Alain ;
Childress,Malcolm D. ;
Smyle,Jim ;
Sander,Logan ;
Corcoran,Christen
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