The highly contagious Delta variant is
fueling new outbreaks in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP). It
is becoming evident that COVID-19 (coronavirus) is not
leaving any...
Type: BriefReport#: 164857Date: October 7, 2021Author:
Arur,Aneesa ;
Islamaj,Ergys ;
Kim,Young Eun ;
Le,Duong Trung ;
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Somanathan,Aparnaa
The Committee welcomed the evaluation,
noting its relevance and timeliness to inform the upcoming
IDA20 replenishment discussions and the implementation of
the FCV strategy....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 166197Date: October 7, 2021
Strengthening private sector innovation
and productivity is a cornerstone of Indonesia’s medium-term
economic development strategy. The Government of Indonesia
(GoI),...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 164864Date: October 6, 2021Author:
Doarest,Aufa ;
Kojucharov,Nikola Denchev ;
Kamphuis,Bertine ;
Cirera,Xavier ;
Huda,Ainul ;
Nugroho, Wisnu
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
This paper employs high frequency
transactions data on the world’s oldest and most extensive
centralized peer-to-peer Bitcoin market, which enables trade
in the currencies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9794Date: October 5, 2021Author:
Graf Von Luckner,Clemens Mathis Henrik ;
Reinhart,Carmen M. ;
Rogoff,Kenneth S.
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
In 2019, an Independent Evaluation Group
review on the growing use of social contracts terminology by
the World Bank concluded that social contract diagnostics
are useful...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9788Date: October 4, 2021Author:
Cloutier,Mathieu
The Country Opinion Survey in Comoros
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Comoros perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168446Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Although global economic activity is
recovering and output in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) is
expected to grow in 2021, containing COVID-19 remains a
challenge in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164872Date: October 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
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
The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region
is suffering a reversal of fortune. In 2020, many EAP
countries successfully contained COVID-19 and economic
activity swiftly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164561Date: October 1, 2021
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
The objective of the MTRS is to provide
a clear vision for a country’s future tax system to attain
lasting and meaningful tax system reforms to meet the
country’s fiscal...
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 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 note provides an overview of the
LCR Governance Practice’s response to these challenges and
the Bank’s engagement in the LAC region. The paper is
structured around...
This note examines the use of small
claims procedures and courts in the countries of the
South-West Mediterranean Basin, namely the Maghreb region
(Algeria, Libya, Morocco,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 164565Date: September 29, 2021
In this paper, the authors: (i) study
wage-experience profiles and obtain measures of returns to
potential work experience using data from about 24 million
individuals...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9786Date: September 29, 2021Author:
Jedwab,Remi Camille ;
Romer,Paul M ;
Islam,Asif Mohammed ;
Samaniego,Roberto
In the Maghreb and beyond, the justice
system has the mission of being a safety net protecting
citizens’ rights and property, allowing normal and safe
economic activity...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 164556Date: September 28, 2021
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