Urban centers are growing, with two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban centers by 2050; nearly ninety percent of this increase is in Asia and Africa. A rapidly urbanizing world...
Type: BriefReport#: 184530Date: August 16, 2023Author:
Avalos,Jorge Eduardo ;
Chaudhary,Sarang ;
Clay,Timothy Joseph Peter ;
Dutta,Puja Vasudeva
Costa Rica was one of the first countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region to choose the World Bank Program for Results (PforR) financing instrument to support the implementation of the Strategic...
Type: BriefReport#: 185094Date: August 2, 2023Author:
Rosado Valenzuela,Ana Lucia ;
Sheffel,Ashley Lauren ;
Mussini,Micaela ;
Lara Salinas,Ana Maria ;
Di Giorgio,Laura
Costa Rica was one of the first countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region to choose the World Bank Program for Results (PforR) financing instrument to support the implementation of the Strategic...
Type: BriefReport#: 185093Date: August 2, 2023Author:
Rosado Valenzuela,Ana Lucia ;
Sheffel,Ashley Lauren ;
Mussini,Micaela ;
Lara Salinas,Ana Maria ;
Di Giorgio,Laura
Costa Rica was one of the first countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region to choose the World Bank Program for Results (PforR) financing instrument to support the implementation of the Strategic...
Type: BriefReport#: 185095Date: August 2, 2023Author:
Rosado Valenzuela,Ana Lucia ;
Sheffel,Ashley Lauren ;
Lara Salinas,Ana Maria ;
Mussini,Micaela ;
Di Giorgio,Laura
Costa Rica was one of the first countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region to choose the World Bank Program for Results (PforR) financing instrument to support the implementation of the Strategic...
Type: BriefReport#: 185096Date: August 2, 2023Author:
Rosado Valenzuela,Ana Lucia ;
Sheffel,Ashley Lauren ;
Mussini,Micaela ;
Lara Salinas,Ana Maria ;
Di Giorgio,Laura
Costa Rica was one of the first countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region to choose the World Bank Program for Results (PforR) financing instrument to support the implementation of the Strategic...
Type: BriefReport#: 185097Date: August 2, 2023Author:
Mussini,Micaela ;
Lara Salinas,Ana Maria ;
Rosado Valenzuela,Ana Lucia ;
Sheffel,Ashley Lauren ;
Di Giorgio,Laura
The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) supported construction of new rural infrastructure in Vietnam and enhanced safety and connectivity for the country’s most...
Type: BriefReport#: 184479Date: August 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
This package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election. It provides the World Bank’s diagnosis...
Type: BriefReport#: 183237Date: August 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Working in more than 100 countries, IFC committed a record US$43...
Type: BriefReport#: 193536Date: August 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
This brief discusses the economic development of Vietnam for August 2023. While the export slump may have bottomed out, and domestic consumption remained resilient, credit growth continued to be slow,...
Type: BriefReport#: 184905Date: August 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank, officially launched the Uganda High Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS) to track the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Type: BriefReport#: 184302Date: July 29, 2023Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cochinard,Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor,John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini,Giulia
Valuing ecosystem services—the benefits humans obtain from earth’s many life-support systems—is an important step in devising interventions to achieve sustainable livelihoods and climate resilience. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 183623Date: July 28, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Integrated Drought Risk Management Framework highlights a three-pillar approach centered around interconnected, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional activities. These are 1) Monitoring and early...
Type: BriefReport#: 184296Date: July 27, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Integrated Drought Risk Management Framework highlights a three-pillar approach centered around interconnected, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional activities. These are 1) Vulnerability and impact...
Type: BriefReport#: 184297Date: July 27, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Integrated Drought Risk Management Framework highlights a three-pillar approach centered around interconnected, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional activities. These are 1) vulnerability and impact...
Type: BriefReport#: 184288Date: July 27, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Integrated Drought Risk Management Framework highlights a three-pillar approach centered around interconnected, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional activities. These are 1) Vulnerability and impact...
Type: BriefReport#: 184294Date: July 27, 2023Author:
World Bank
On July 17, 2023, the World Bank (WB) held a discussion on the World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-2030 with representatives of the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, a feminist women’s rights organization which...
Type: BriefReport#: 192227Date: July 27, 2023Author:
World Bank
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