In August of 2017, Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar to escape violence and arrived in the district of Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh. Within a period of 4 months, an influx of about 724,000 persons joined...
Type: BriefReport#: 169934Date: May 11, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery’s (GFDRR) Partnership Days event, which was held online from February 23 to 24, 2022, was the first of its kind. But it likely won’t be the last:...
Type: BriefReport#: 171218Date: May 11, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused massive disruption in education systems around the world. Countries were forced to swiftly implement remote learning approaches at scale. What lessons...
Type: BriefReport#: 171034Date: May 10, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery’s (GFDRR) Partnership Days event, which was held online from February 23 to 24, 2022, was the first of its kind. But it likely won’t be the last:...
In-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities that lie at the nexus of disaster risk management (DRM) and fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) risks has been undertaken in South Sudan, helping...
Type: BriefReport#: 171196Date: May 5, 2022Author:
World Bank
Increasing agricultural productivity and investment is critical to reducing poverty, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture remains the dominant income-generating activity. One potential...
Type: BriefReport#: 172232Date: May 1, 2022Author:
Donald, Aletheia Amalia ;
Goldstein, Markus ;
Rouanet, Lea Marie
Vietnam's recovery is gaining momentum. However, the authorities should be vigilant about inflation and heightened risks of weaker global demand and supply disruptions to economic prospects. Uncertainty...
Type: BriefReport#: 171409Date: April 30, 2022Author:
World Bank
India’s Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) and the World Bank (WB) partnered together to facilitate the participation of 12 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in the annual India International Food...
Poverty reduction was slow in Nigeria in the decade prior to COVID-19; the poverty headcount rate at the 1.90 dollars poverty line dropped by only around 4 percentage points between 2010-11 and 2018-19,...
Type: BriefReport#: 204816Date: April 30, 2022Author:
World Bank
Most social protection and jobs (SPJ) interventions have a behavior change dimension. As such, understanding social norms, and to what extent they drive the behaviors of interest is key to good project...
Type: BriefReport#: 176766Date: April 30, 2022Author:
World Bank
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are constantly exposed to the effects of climate change and natural hazards, such as flooding and hurricanes. Such extreme weather events are often beyond their coping...
Type: BriefReport#: 204570Date: April 30, 2022Author:
World Bank
This brief examines more than thirty years of legal reform aimed at removing husbands’ marital power at the expense of their wives from South African legislation. For decades, marital power relegated wives...
Africa is the only region where women are more likely to be entrepreneurs than men; yet, on average, female-owned businesses in this region earn 30 percent less than male-owned businesses. There are several...
Type: BriefReport#: 171016Date: April 28, 2022Author:
Gesund Forero, Jessica
In 2021, Morocco’s economy rebounded due to a strong agricultural output, solid exports and remittances, supportive macroeconomic policies, and significant progress on COVID-19 vaccination. The authorities...
Type: BriefReport#: 170715Date: April 27, 2022Author:
World Bank
Rwanda’s economy grew at around 11 percent in 2021, as targeted measures helped economic activities to effectively navigate the pandemic. The twin deficits remained—requiring more external financing— and...
Type: BriefReport#: 170910Date: April 26, 2022Author:
World Bank
On April 14, 2023, 40 countries joined the Spring Meetings Human Capital Ministerial Conclave to discuss policy priorities and solutions to prepare people for the effects of climate change and empower...
Type: BriefReport#: 202404Date: April 26, 2022Author:
World Bank
On April 26th, 2022, over 60 countries joined the Spring Meetings Human Capital Ministerial Conclave to discuss policy priorities and solutions to overcome learning losses and restore jobs and skills....
Type: BriefReport#: 202401Date: April 26, 2022Author:
World Bank
All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school, and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning....
Type: BriefReport#: 160779Date: April 25, 2022Author:
World Bank, UNESCO
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