The recent phenomenon of Venezuelan migration to Ecuador presents a number of significant issues related to gender and, more specifically, the protection of women’s rights. At 56.6 percent, male migrants...
Vietnam reacted early to the spread of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) by imposing social distancing measures and mobility restrictions, culminating in a national lockdown in April 2020. In order to understand...
Vietnam has the unique opportunity to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis. While the future is hard to predict, most would agree that the world will look very different in the post coronavirus era. There...
Young children everywhere need sufficient nutrition and stimulation to grow and develop appropriately. A healthy, diverse diet and a supportive caregiving environment can help children grow and develop...
Artificial intelligence technologies are permeating financial services sectors around the world. The application of these technologies in emerging markets allows financial service providers to further...
Type: BriefReport#: 151335Date: June 1, 2020Author:
Biallas,Margarete O. ;
Felicity O'Neill
Tirana has grown fourfold in the past thirty years with a lot of informal and illegal development fueling the booming construction of the Albanian capital. In Tirana’s development market a majority of...
Type: BriefReport#: 168642Date: June 1, 2020Author:
World Bank
The construction industry in Tirana has been going through five booming years with residential real estate being the driving force behind the growth. Fortuitously for municipal finances, the construction...
Type: BriefReport#: 168049Date: June 1, 2020Author:
World Bank
Measures taken to curtail the spread of COVID-19 have led to a sharp contraction of the global economy and an even larger decline in trade, with significant implications on the livelihoods of people in...
Type: BriefReport#: 148966Date: June 1, 2020Author:
Kassa,Woubet
Defense dual-use items are goods with both civilian and military uses. This report focuses only on the civilian applications of dual-use technology. Even so, defense dual-use is a broad area spanning several...
Clearing antipersonnel landmines is a EUR 267 million business globally. The industry requires specialist machinery and equipment to detect and clear mines and service providers that conduct mine clearance....
Cybersecurity includes activities focused on protecting computers, networks, software, and data from unauthorized or unintended access. Cybersecurity preserves the availability and integrity of information...
Short-sea transportation refers to transporting passengers or goods short distances in coastal waters. It includes coastal trade, such as transferring freight from sea shipping to other modes of transport...
Data collected during the Covid-19 period reveal reductions in the employment levels of the population in South Africa, lack of resources to buy food and low rates of school attendance.
Advanced institutional buyers in the “beyond the pill” strategic segment increasingly demand that firms guarantee outcome rates. Producers of pharmaceutical products also need to integrate their products...
As disaster risk intensifies in Central America due to the impact of weather events and climate change, Honduras and Nicaragua are taking action to be better prepared for natural hazards by modernizing...
The personal urban mobility strategic segment is concerned with transporting small groups of people over short distances in urban areas. This segment is undergoing a sea change as innovative technologies...
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are committed to their mandate to deliver urgent and innovative climate-smart investments at scale. Given the ever-accelerating demands on limited resources, there is...
The Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a program for developing countries and regions to build adaptation and resilience to the impacts of climate change. The...
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