These remarks were delivered by World
Bank Group President David Malpass at Remarks by World Bank
Group President David Malpass at the Ninth World Water Forum
in Dakar,...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 169714Date: March 21, 2022Author:
Malpass,David
Digital technologies can expand access
to health services to underserved populations. This paper
leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning
two decades...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9978Date: March 21, 2022Author:
Mensah,Justice Tei ;
Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere ;
Abay,Kibrom A.
This paper examines which product
supply-side characteristics affect the resilience of traded
products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly
product-level exports...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9975Date: March 17, 2022Author:
Bas,Maria ;
Fernandes,Ana Margarida ;
Paunov,Caroline
The world has waited long enough for
high-performing primary health care (PHC). It’s time to
deliver. Forty years ago, leaders embraced the promise of
health for all...
Type: ReportReport#: 161110Date: March 16, 2022Author:
Wang,Huihui ;
Ndebele,Lydia ;
Pate,Muhammad Ali ;
Zhao,Feng ;
Baris,Enis ;
Silverman,Rachel Lea ;
Özçelik,Ece ;
Villar Uribe,Manuela ;
Cafagna,Gianluca ;
Secci,Federica ;
Duran,Denizhan ;
Alkenbrack,Sarah ;
Oroxom,Roxanne Guislaine ;
Umar-Sadiq,Muntaqa ;
Strasser,Roger Peter
Issues of data availability and
incomparability in the measurement of household consumption
arise frequently when measuring poverty trends over time.
Yet, understanding...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9974Date: March 16, 2022Author:
Lain,Jonathan William ;
Schoch,Marta ;
Vishwanath,Tara
This report is the fifth Development
Policy Financing (DPF) Retrospective. DPF, one of the Bank’s
three complementary financing instruments, is non-earmarked
budget...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 169932Date: March 16, 2022
Every year, disasters account for
billions of dollars in crop production losses in low- and
middle-income countries and particularly threaten the lives
and livelihoods...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9968Date: March 14, 2022Author:
Markhof,Yannick Valentin ;
Ponzini,Giulia ;
Wollburg,Philip Randolph
A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) pilot project
will substantially improve travel conditions in the Greater
Dakar area by providing quick, safe, reliable, and
less-polluting...
The Disaster Resilient and Responsive
Public Financial Management (DRR-PFM) Assessment is designed
to help countries strengthen the capability of their Public
Financial...
Type: ReportReport#: 168981Date: March 11, 2022Author:
April,Leah ;
Sutherland,Richard Anthony ;
Newman,James P. ;
Myers,C. Bernard ;
Zrinski,Urska ;
Fozzard,Adrian
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards’ calendar for the period from March to May
2022, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings
and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 169308Date: March 9, 2022
The largest private hospital in Ecuador,
Hospital Metropolitano in Quito, also has one of the
strongest reputations for quality of care. The company’s
culture and day-to-day...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 169209Date: March 8, 2022Author:
Powell, Juliette ;
Kleiner, Art
There’s something special about
companies that last 100 years. Comparatively few large
companies do, and very few of those were founded in emerging
economies. But last...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 169211Date: March 8, 2022Author:
Powell, Juliette ;
Kleiner, Art
In the pharmaceutical industry around
the world, a noteworthy kind of company is stepping onto the
global stage. These are energetic, innovative family
businesses launched...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 169210Date: March 8, 2022Author:
Powell, Juliette ;
Kleiner, Art
These remarks were delivered by World
Bank Group President David Malpass at Fragility Forum 2022,
Development and Peace in Uncertain Times on March 7, 2022.
He said...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 169208Date: March 7, 2022Author:
Malpass,David
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of
Statistics, with the support from the World Bank, has
launched the high-frequency phone survey on Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
Wildfires throughout western North
America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the
agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change
is likely to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9953Date: March 3, 2022Author:
Behrer,Arnold Patrick ;
Wang,Sherrie
The first six to eight years of a
child's life, known as early childhood, have been
globally acknowledged to be the most critical years for
life-long development of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 169044Date: March 1, 2022Author:
Sinha,Shabnam ;
Dey,Sangeeta ;
Sahu,Tapaswini ;
Paul,Sandipan ;
Talukdar,Tanusree
Brazil has a pressing need for better
water supply and sanitation services (WSS), but in recent
years public investment in the sector has been declining
both in real...
Type: BriefReport#: 161240Date: March 1, 2022Author:
Makino,Midori ;
Borja-Vega,Christian
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