Niger avoided recession in 2020, but the recovery was interrupted in 2021 with growth falling to 1.4 percent (-2.3 percent per capita), due to heightened insecurity and climatic shocks (drought, erratic...
Type: BriefReport#: 170909Date: April 21, 2022Author:
World Bank
Panama’s strong rebound in 2021 brought real GDP above its pre-crisis level. Poverty is estimated to decline to almost pre-crisis levels, in part due to Panama’s mitigative social assistance measures....
Type: BriefReport#: 170650Date: April 21, 2022Author:
World Bank
In Bhutan, output is estimated to have contracted by 3.7 percent in FY20/21, with broad based contractions in the non-hydro industrial and services sector, reflecting COVID-19-related disruptions. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 170729Date: April 21, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Republic of Congo’s (ROC) economy contracted by an estimated 3.5 percent in 2021. The poverty rate increased from 51.9 percent in 2020 to an estimated 53.9 percent in 2021. The ROC is expected to make...
Type: BriefReport#: 170539Date: April 21, 2022Author:
World Bank
Detailed spatial knowledge of service accessibility disparities is crucial to design well-targeted policies and projects to address them, both for the World Bank Group and its clients. Confronted with...
Type: BriefReport#: 170810Date: April 18, 2022Author:
Banick,Robert Steven ;
Basnet,Manish ;
Bosch,Lander Sonia M ;
Meyer,Moritz
Niger’s economy has fundamentally remained the same as two decades ago: undiversified, fragile, and extremely vulnerable to shocks. Amidst competing development needs and priorities, three areas of analysis...
Type: BriefReport#: 170232Date: April 6, 2022Author:
World Bank
This discussion note presents the summary learnings from seven case studies of government and non-governmental organization (NGO) initiatives to support land-poor farmers especially the landless, tenants,...
In 2002, Angus Deaton and Salman Zaidi (henceforth, DZ) released their ‘Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis.’ The influence of this work in the practice of welfare measurement...
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses on household-level economic impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Solomon Islands during the first half of 2021, based on data from a High Frequency Phone Survey (HFPS). While widespread...
Type: BriefReport#: 172241Date: April 1, 2022Author:
Johnson,Darcey Jeanne Genou ;
Naidoo,Darian ;
Wokker,Christopher Jan ;
Zheng,Shuwen
Impact bonds are a relatively new form of results based financing (RBF) that attach payments to outcomes and where financial risk is shared with third-party investors. Although they have been used more...
Type: BriefReport#: 180125Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
This report reviews high quality impact evaluations of results-based financing interventions (RBF) in education to investigate whether particular subgroups of students benefit systematically more (or less)...
Type: BriefReport#: 171135Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
After stabilizing at relatively low levels in late 2021, Myanmar’s international trade increased in the first three months of 2022. Manufacturing and agriculture exports have increased since mid-2021,...
Type: BriefReport#: 173073Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
This brief presents analysis of the social and food security impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Solomon Islands. While widespread transmission of COVID-19 did not occur in 2021, COVID-19 preparedness...
Type: BriefReport#: 172239Date: April 1, 2022Author:
Johnson,Darcey Jeanne Genou ;
Naidoo,Darian ;
Wokker,Christopher Jan ;
Zheng,Shuwen
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