Water scarcity is becoming a high priority policy concern worldwide. Although Brazil is home to 12 percent of the world’s total freshwater resources, water availability remains a challenge. Freshwater...
The World Bank is providing technical and financial support to countries to help mitigate the spread and impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One area of support is for data collection to inform...
Type: BriefReport#: 174903Date: April 30, 2021Author:
Costantini, Marco ;
Koncobo, Zakaria ;
Mugera, Harriet Kasidi ;
Tanner, Jeffery ;
Tiberti, Marco ;
Tsimpo Nkengne, Clarence
The use of hydrogen as a fuel source dates back nearly 200 years, when it powered nineteenth-century air balloon travel. Later, it became important as a chemical feedstock. Today, it holds potential as...
Type: BriefReport#: 174819Date: April 30, 2021Author:
Gallon Tamayo, Jorge Leon ;
Salgado Gonzalez, Maria Alessandra
Water scarcity remains common in Brazil, especially in the Recife Metropolitan Region (RMR) in the State of Pernambuco. The RMR is subject to particularly high levels of non-revenue water—which occur when...
The Ethiopia High Frequency Phone Survey of Households (HFPS-HH) is conducted by the World Bank every four weeks to collect timely data to help monitor the economic and social effects of COVID-19 on households,...
Type: BriefReport#: 159115Date: April 30, 2021Author:
Ambel, Alemayehu A. ;
Cardona Sosa, Lina Marcela ;
Kassa, Wondu Yemanebirhan ;
Tsegay, Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser, Christina
The Philippines experienced the second surge of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in April 2021. The government imposed stringent restrictions anew until mid-May in selected areas, including Metro...
Type: BriefReport#: 172885Date: April 30, 2021Author:
World Bank
This study represents the first attempt of the World Bank to examine SWM issues in unique and ecologically-fragile mountain areas. This infographic presents a synopsis of the findings from fie knowledge...
As Sierra Leone’s overwhelmingly young population comes of age and enters the labor market, the country has a one-time opportunity to experience rapid and inclusive economic development. However, the pace...
The quality of school management can have a large impact on student learning. Evidence from a wide range of countries demonstrates that improving the management practices of principals is associated with...
Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and employment. Firm sales in some EAP countries were...
Type: BriefReport#: 158503Date: April 26, 2021Author:
de Nicola, Francesca ;
Mattoo, Aaditya ;
Timmis, Jonathan David ;
Tran, Trang Thu
To support Mozambique’s blue economy and promote sustainable rural development, the World Bank is working to make the fishing sector more sustainable and profitable by aligning economic development with...
Complexities surround the relationships between the public and private sectors that fundamentally influence the provision of hydromet information
and services. This technical note considers the potential...
Type: BriefReport#: 158504Date: April 22, 2021Author:
Bogdanova, Anna-Maria ;
Rogers, David P. ;
Suwa, Makoto ;
Tsirkunov, Vladimir V.
Energy efficiency is seen more often as a means of reducing energy consumption and costs than as a way to expand the production of goods and services. But it can help raise a companys manufacturing capacity,...
Type: BriefReport#: 158239Date: April 16, 2021Author:
Campagne,Benoit Philippe Marcel,Zinetti,Silvia,de Wit,Joerie Frederik,Lukas,Aditya Alexander
Access to electricity is widely considered a major determinant of socioeconomic development. But despite long-standing efforts to expand access, 789 million people remained without electricity in 2018....
The April 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics : The authorities acted swiftly to control a new COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, which started in late January 2021 in Hai...
The brief outlines the finding from the second round of a high frequency social monitoring survey that aimed to assess the impact of COVID 19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable rural...
Type: BriefReport#: 163264Date: April 14, 2021Author:
Adolfo, Paul Tudtud ;
Canlas, Corinne A. ;
Fallesen, Ditte Marie Gammelgaard ;
Padua, Maria Loreto ;
Piza, Sharon Faye Alariao ;
Wilson, Juliette E.
The brief outlines the finding from the second round of a high frequency social monitoring survey that aimed to assess the impact of COVID 19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable rural...
Type: BriefReport#: 163264Date: April 14, 2021Author:
Adolfo, Paul Tudtud ;
Canlas, Corinne A. ;
Fallesen, Ditte Marie Gammelgaard ;
Padua, Maria Loreto ;
Piza, Sharon Faye Alariao ;
Wilson, Juliette E.
The World Bank, in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), conducted two rounds of a high frequency social monitoring survey that aimed to assess the impact of Coronavirus...
High-frequency phone surveys conducted in 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) show that women were 44 percent more likely than men to lose their jobs at the onset of Coronavirus disease...
Type: BriefReport#: 156537Date: April 11, 2021Author:
Cucagna, Maria Emilia ;
Romero Haaker, Francisco Javier
Fraud and corruption may impede economic growth, exacerbate income inequality, increase the cost of government services, lower trust in government, and increase political instability. For example, studies...
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