Too often, electrification programs do not fully exploit the degree to which access to electricity can improve livelihoods. This live wire documents the lessons learned from the World Bank-funded Indonesia...
Type: BriefReport#: 166467Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Finucane,James Robert ;
Besnard,Juliette Suzanne Georgette ;
Golumbeanu,Raluca Georgiana
Even with significant economic progress and high levels of gender equality, female labor force participation remains persistently low in the Philippines, with less than half of women in the labor market....
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: November 30, 2021Author:
Ratha, Dilip ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Plaza, Sonia ;
Seshan, Ganesh Kumar ;
Riordan, Elliott J ;
Chandra, Vandana
The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for timely information to help monitor and mitigate the socio-economic impact of the crisis. This information is essential to inform policy measures for protecting...
Type: BriefReport#: 191291Date: November 26, 2021Author:
World Bank
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) new analysis, The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions, found that the commitments from the Bank’s Zero Routine Flaring Initiative will be an integral component...
Gender-based violence (GBV) has substantial individual and collective costs that disproportionately affect poorer women and girls. One woman in three worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence...
Type: BriefReport#: 166255Date: November 24, 2021Author:
Botea,Ioana Alexandra ;
Coudouel,Aline ;
Heinemann,Alessandra ;
Kuttner,Stephanie Anne
High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that people in Sudan were aware of COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic. Yet, one year later, preventive measures were used by fewer people. Households experienced...
High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that COVID-19 awareness was widespread in Zambia following the outbreak. Yet, people stopped working and households experienced reductions in income, with some...
High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that COVID-19 awareness was widespread in Malawi but safe practices declined over time. Households experienced reductions in income, food insecurity, and lower...
The government has reopened international borders and lifted the curfew in Bangkok as the number of COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases and deaths continued to decline. The target to vaccinate 70 percent of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 166086Date: November 12, 2021Author:
Puthong,Warunthorn ;
Khalil,Uzma
The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate structures are still an effective way to...
Type: BriefReport#: 165999Date: November 11, 2021Author:
Cebreiro Gomez,Ana ;
Collin,Matthew Edward ;
Esquivel,Yara ;
De Magalhaes Pinto Almeida,Yasmin ;
Van der Does de Willebois,Emile J. M. ;
Anderson,James
Mozambique is one of the thirty highest tuberculosis (TB) burden countries in the world with respect to total incidence. Active case finding programs that focus on key populations, including prisoners,...
Peru has the second highest number of incident TB cases in the Americas, with increasing levels of drug resistance, and often catastrophic out-of-pocket health costs, especially for drug resistant TB patients....
In 2003 Botswana was the first country in Africa to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all citizens living with HIV. It achieved the 90-90-90 UNAIDS Fast-Track targets ahead of 2020 and is on track...
Guinea, a mining resource rich country, created a National Local Development Fund (FNDL) in 2019, to support all local governments (LGs). At the local level, Local Development Agents (ADLs) facilitators...
Lack of access to water supply and sanitation (WSS) constitutes a public health, economic, and environmental emergency across the developing world. Urgent action is needed to provide sustainable urban...
This policy brief summaries the findings from a representative phone survey and an online survey on Facebook about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Papua New Guinea.
In January 2021, the second wave of the Somalia high frequency phone survey has been administered, calling 2,811 households to see the impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on people’s behavior...
Deep tech companies - those built on advances in biotechnology, robotics, electronics, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies—aim to solve complex social and environmental challenges....
The accelerated use of digital services during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of high-speed Internet access. Yet a large share of adults in emerging markets still live in cities where...
Type: BriefReport#: 166254Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien ;
Rossotto,Carlo Maria ;
Strusani,Davide
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