The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Power Grid Improvement Project aims to provide a reliable and efficient power distribution network in the Xaythany district of Vientiane - the capital and largest...
Public transport is often the only way for girls and women to get to work, school, and healthcare services in developing countries. However, safety can be a major concern. Experience from several parts...
In 2015, the government of Tanzania launched the Dar es Salaam Metropolitan Development Project to expand the economy and increase the emergency response capacity of the city by improving key urban services...
This brief examines two successful gender equality reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo : the introduction of the Law on Parity in 2015 and an amendment to the Family Code in 2016. These two examples...
Type: BriefReport#: 169422Date: March 14, 2022Author:
Braunmiller, Julia Constanze ;
Dry, Marie Jeanne Charlotte
In a recently liberalized power sector, scaling up access to electricity relies heavily on the capacity of the government to properly oversee its expansion. Through the Electricity Access and Service Expansion...
Since 2017, the World Bank has supported Jordan’s government to strengthen its public investment management and its public-private partnership (PPP) program. These efforts were bolstered in March 2020,...
With a growing economy that demands increased energy, Turkey is committed to producing more efficient, renewable energy to ensure cleaner growth and less dependency on imports. The 352.3 million dollars...
A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) pilot project will substantially improve travel conditions in the Greater Dakar area by providing quick, safe, reliable, and less-polluting public transport services to over 320,000...
Paraguay’s public utility, the National Electricity Administration (ANDE, in Spanish), aimed to strengthen the power supply network through the construction of the Itaipu-Asuncion 500 kilovolt transmission...
Meeting the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals will require enormous infrastructure investment around the world. Sustainability-linked financing (SLF) incentivizes companies to pursue ambitious, long-term...
Type: BriefReport#: 185408Date: March 12, 2022Author:
World Bank
Children need healthcare and nutrition to survive, but to thrive they need early stimulation. Parents and caregivers can provide this early stimulation, which lays the foundations for future learning and...
Type: BriefReport#: 169336Date: March 10, 2022Author:
Bendini, Maria Magdalena ;
Devercelli, Amanda Epstein ;
Hasan, Amer ;
Le Mottee, Sherrilee Ann
Senegal is already water stressed and current water withdrawals are projected to increase by 30 to 60 percent by 2035. Water-related extreme events and pollution already cost Senegal over 10 percent of...
Type: BriefReport#: 169276Date: March 8, 2022Author:
World Bank
Botswana is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with inequality in per capita consumption more than 30 percent higher than the average for upper-middle-income countries. However, it has moderately...
Type: BriefReport#: 169232Date: March 7, 2022Author:
Cuevas, Pablo Facundo ;
Sulla, Victor ;
Zikhali, Precious
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with inequality in per capita consumption about 50 percent higher than the average for upper-middle-income countries. The country has made little...
Type: BriefReport#: 169226Date: March 7, 2022Author:
Cuevas, Pablo Facundo ;
Sulla, Victor ;
Zikhali, Precious
Namibia is the second most unequal country in the world, with inequality in per capita consumption about 45 percent higher than the average for upper-middle-income countries. The country has made little...
Type: BriefReport#: 169228Date: March 7, 2022Author:
Cuevas, Pablo Facundo ;
Sulla, Victor ;
Zikhali, Precious
Lesotho has made considerable progress towards a more equal society. However, although it is more equal than its neighbors, it remains among the top 20 percent of unequal countries. The main sources of...
Type: BriefReport#: 169230Date: March 7, 2022Author:
Cuevas, Pablo Facundo ;
Sulla, Victor ;
Zikhali, Precious
Eswatini has made the slowest progress in reducing inequality among the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries and remains among the top 15 percent of unequal countries. A critical source of inequality...
Type: BriefReport#: 169231Date: March 7, 2022Author:
Cuevas, Pablo Facundo ;
Sulla, Victor ;
Zikhali, Precious
Just seven days into the war, more than a million Ukrainians have left the country, and millions more are expected to migrate or seek asylum in other countries in the coming months. Remittances to Ukraine...
Type: BriefReport#: 193096Date: March 4, 2022Author:
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Ratha, Dilip
Gender-based occupational segregation - the fact that men and women are typically concentrated in different occupations and economic sectors - contributes to gender gaps in earnings. In an experiment in...
Type: BriefReport#: 169439Date: March 1, 2022Author:
Gassier, Marine ;
Pierotti, Rachael Susan ;
Rouanet, Lea Marie ;
Traore, Lacina
Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) provides unconditional cash transfers to women in seven million of the country’s poorest households. Beginning in 2017, BISP adopted biometric verification...
Type: BriefReport#: 170482Date: March 1, 2022Author:
Clark, Julia Michal ;
Haseeb, Muhammad ;
Jalal, Umm E Amen ;
Siddiqi, Bilal Murtaza ;
Vyborny, Kate
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