Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting this investment, however, ranging...
Type: BriefReport#: 133876Date: January 8, 2019Author:
Ramachandran,Vijay ;
Gelb,Alan Harold ;
Buehler,Martin Reto
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 7, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded a year-on-year inflation of 3.13 percent in December 2018,...
Climate change affects what the World Bank does as a development institution. Rising temperatures, increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and changing seasonal weather patterns put various...
Type: BriefReport#: 170252Date: January 1, 2019Author:
World Bank
In this short note, we summarize findings from a forthcoming analysis for 39 countries with unusually large over-enrollment in the early primary grades. We investigate the scope of the problem, the underlying...
Type: BriefReport#: 135149Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Crouch,Luis A. ;
Merseth,Katherine ;
Devercelli,Amanda Epstein ;
Choi,Min Ju ;
Denboba,Amina Debissa ;
Gurgel,Anita Amaral
There are various approaches to credit a country for its achievements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These approaches are called mitigation activities. If they fulfill a set of specific criteria,...
The Water Sector Support Project supported the government of Tanzania’s Water Sector Development Program to increase water access to both urban and rural residents. Since the program inception in 2007,...
By decentralizing nine water and sanitation utilities, Honduras significantly modernized its water sector, improving water services for approximately 108,000 families and sanitation services for 3,786...
A wide range of new technologies are progressively being used for data collection, project planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation in forced displacement contexts. This note highlights...
Type: BriefReport#: 141224Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Carrette,Sheila Johanna ;
Hasumi,Takahiro
This note describes the outcomes of a June 2018 knowledge exchange visit to study urban water management and urban renewal experiences in Brazil. Participants included 23 country representatives and 9...
The mission of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. The journey out of poverty is never easy, but when personal or natural...
Though they may be invisible in the community, persons with disabilities live in every country. In fact, more than one billion people worldwide have some form of disability, and eighty percent of persons...
If teachers’ professional entitlements, such as timely salaries or fair transfers, are routinely unmet - or if they need to use informal channels to get them - can they be expected to function as motivated...
Type: BriefReport#: 158610Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Beteille,Tara ;
Pandey,Priyanka
With a participatory and watershed-wide approach, the Xining Flood and Watershed Management Project helped China to improve social protection, build livelihood skills, and foster the sustainable use of...
The World Bank-supported Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Community-Based Management (APCBTM) project (2007–2016) in India benefited 605,052 people by strengthening the capacity of community-based institutions....
Tanzania has the third largest livestock population in Africa (after Ethiopia and Sudan), but the competitiveness of Tanzania’s livestock sector faces many challenges, including lack of access to good-quality,...
Type: BriefReport#: 135603Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Baregu,Solomon Simon ;
Wigenge,Raymond Nicholaus ;
Shrader,Hans ;
Thendiu,Isaac Njoro
Cities along the Adriatic coastline of Croatia boast a sizable and fast-growing tourism industry that is one of the key pillars of the country’s economy. However, the practice of discharging untreated...
The Water and Sanitation Millennium Project (Programme d’Eau Potable et d’Assainissement du Millénaire) in Senegal facilitated access to services by improving and expanding water production and distribution...
In many low-income countries, improving service delivery can be challenging, whether it's making sure that teachers are in the classroom ready to teach or that cash transfers reach intended beneficiaries....
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