Summary of the projects that have benefited from funding from the SASPP in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The summaries include a breakdown of the project's components, achieved...
Type: BriefReport#: 182075Date: February 28, 2023Author:
World Bank
Summary of the projects that have benefited from funding from the SASPP in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The summaries include a breakdown of the project's components, achieved...
Type: BriefReport#: 182072Date: February 28, 2023Author:
World Bank
South Asia is home to 9 of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution. Bad air quality causes an estimated 2 million premature deaths across the region each year and incurs significant economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 180441Date: February 28, 2023Author:
Bali,Pawan
Summary of the projects that have benefited from funding from the SASPP in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The summaries include a breakdown of the project's components, achieved...
Type: BriefReport#: 182074Date: February 28, 2023Author:
World Bank
On January 13, 2022, the World Bank Group (WBG) launched #AccelerateEquality, a year-long campaign to explore the important progress made and lessons learned over the last 10 years in closing gender gaps...
Type: BriefReport#: 192287Date: February 28, 2023Author:
World Bank
Growth decelerated more than expected to 1.4 percent in Q4 2022 amid the global economic slowdown. Goods trade contracted while manufacturing production and investment weakened. However, robust private...
Type: BriefReport#: 180627Date: February 24, 2023Author:
World Bank
Mobile phones have become the main communication tool and helped countless people to improve their lives in many countries. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past 30 years from...
Type: BriefReport#: 180386Date: February 24, 2023Author:
Farooq,Khuram ;
Haslinger,Reinhard ;
Embacher-Köhle, Gerhard
Smaller businesses, including those led by women, are a vital part of economies across the Middle East and North Africa. But women entrepreneurs are still vastly underserved by the financial sector. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 180254Date: February 20, 2023Author:
Korayem,Manar Ahmed Zaki Mahmoud Zaki
Public financial management (PFM) has direct implications for health service delivery goals, including equity, quality, efficiency, and accountability of health services. The World Bank FinHealth PFM...
Type: BriefReport#: 180203Date: February 16, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Global Tax Program Health Taxes Knowledge Note Series focuses on topics linked to implementation of health taxes, or excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. The purpose...
Type: BriefReport#: 180103Date: February 13, 2023Author:
World Bank
Natural disasters catalyze gender-differentiated effects. Women and girls are disproportionally impacted because of inequalities in access to endowments, economic opportunities, and agency. The objective...
The objective of the Nepal Cost of Migration Survey 2022-23 will be to estimate various migration worker related characteristics, which in turn will assist to produce the statistics needed to calculate...
Type: BriefReport#: 196984Date: February 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
This Market Monitor is an update of the 2021 monitor, and provides an analysis of gender equality on the boards and in leadership positions at the top 100 issuers by market capitalization on 22 major G20...
Type: BriefReport#: 179896Date: February 3, 2023Author:
World Bank
In a country with a high prevalence of Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Harassment (GBVH) (estimated to cost the GDP 3.9% (2019), Energia del Pacifico (EDP) recognized the need to go beyond minimum...
Type: BriefReport#: 179897Date: February 3, 2023Author:
World Bank
The United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative in partnership with IFC and UN Women have produced these three market monitors to present a ranking of stock exchanges based on gender balance...
Type: BriefReport#: 179895Date: February 3, 2023Author:
World Bank
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is widely recognized as an impediment to the social and economic development of communities and States and the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs)....
Secondary school dropout is higher among boys in Latin America if compared to girls. Dropping out of school has negative implications for overall human capital accumulation and for future labor market...
The report presents existing analysis highlights of challenges faced by Armenia’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and Unified Social Services: high share of long term unemployed among registered unemployed;...
Type: BriefReport#: 183509Date: February 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
India has the world’s largest burden of Tuberculosis (TB), accounting for 26 percent of the global burden. This policy brief documents India’s TB private sector engagement (PSE) journey from donor funded...
Type: BriefReport#: 180893Date: February 1, 2023Author:
Mutasa,Ronald Upenyu ;
Venkat Raman, A ;
Khot,Anagha Vasudeo ;
Bhatia,Manu ;
Fritsche,Gyorgy Bela ;
Dong,Di ;
Vu,Lung Duy ;
Surendran,Sapna
This brief details the findings of research examining context specific determinants of growth faltering and childhood undernutrition in five Sahel countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Senegal....
Type: BriefReport#: 183834Date: February 1, 2023Author:
Lufumpa, Nakawala Lyapa ;
Hilger, Anne ;
Ng, Odyssia ;
Leroy De La Briere, Benedicte
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