The food, fuel, and financial crisis in 2007-08 pulled over 4 million into poverty (3 percentage points increase in the poverty rate) in Bangladesh. Many poor households took their children out of school...
Type: BriefReport#: 135278Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Anwar,Rubaba ;
Cho,Yoonyoung
Capitalizing on the early years is one of the most critical investments a country can make to break the cycle of poverty, address inequality and boost productivity in later life. However, millions of children...
Type: BriefReport#: 135296Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Anwar,Rubaba ;
Rahman,Aneeka
Firm-level survey data on registered private firms reveal that firms in Malaysia have much lower labor productivity than their counterparts in 43 upper-middle-income and 14 high-income countries. It will...
Type: BriefReport#: 138329Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Soh,Yew Chong
The World Bank, with contributions from the CAF - Development Bank of Latin America, is promoting a paradigm shift, moving away from considering wastewater as a waste and recognizing its inherent value....
Creating a global core set of indicators that can be integrated into existing monitoring efforts or harnessed as a foundation for new monitoring efforts will improve the efficiency of the sector and still...
This migration and development brief reports global trends in migration and remittance flows. It highlights developments connected to migration-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for...
Type: BriefReport#: 193019Date: December 31, 2018Author:
Ratha, Dilip ;
De, Supriyo ;
Seshan, Ganesh Kumar ;
Yameogo, Nadege Desiree
This brief focuses on new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) with Cambodia for 2019-2023. As part of the CPF development process, the WBG is undertaking public consultations to inform the drafting of...
Type: BriefReport#: 178714Date: December 24, 2018Author:
World Bank
In a typical developing country, about 70 percent of workers and 30 percent of production are informal. Informality is a cause and a consequence of the lack of economic and institutional development. It...
Type: BriefReport#: 133110Date: December 19, 2018Author:
Loayza,Norman V.
Understanding employment transitions and their implications in terms of welfare and labor outcomes is key for countries to design labor market policies aimed at inclusive growth, particularly in developing...
Type: BriefReport#: 133064Date: December 18, 2018Author:
Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina
Strengthening the financial resilience of ASEAN countries to disaster and climate shocks is critical to support their economic growth, fiscal stability, human development, and poverty reduction efforts....
Logistics is the network of services that support the physical movement of goods, trade across borders, and commerce within borders. It comprises an array of activities beyond transportation, including...
Type: BriefReport#: 133058Date: December 18, 2018Author:
Wiederer,Christina Katharina
Knowledge is a sustainable advantage and using knowledge assets can increase value within an organization. Knowledge advantage—effectively capturing and using know-how and insights in a business environment—advocates...
Type: BriefReport#: 132873Date: December 12, 2018Author:
Lo,Lina ;
Brumby,James A.
Agriculture (crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries) is featured prominently in the Government of Bangladesh’s Seventh Five-Year Plan and is expected to play an important role in reducing poverty and...
The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of development interventions and leads policy research to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in earnings, productivity,...
The changes involved in 'going digital' touch all levels of the business and may even challenge the established business model or institutional identity. The successful implementation of a digital channel...
Type: BriefReport#: 134170Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Davico,Gisela Paola ;
Rodriguez,Christian
To focus on strengthening the institutional capacity of national systems by linking financing to defined results, the World Bank’s Program-for-Results (PforR) requires a deep understanding of behavioral...
Type: BriefReport#: 133933Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Bteddini,Lida ;
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Kay,Kerenssa Mayo ;
Rogger,Daniel Oliver
With an increasing number of public bodies became interested in leveraging behavioral insights for improving policies and services, questions have emerged around how best to integrate this function into...
In the past two or more decades in Ghana, the perception among citizens that government was insensitive to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), particularly Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), in opening...
Type: BriefReport#: 154794Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Agyemang, Harriet Nuamah
Policy-makers and regulators are striving to tackle the challenges brought by the recentexponential growth of cross-border data. One sensitive policy concern is how to ensure accessto data by law enforcement,...
Type: BriefReport#: 132606Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Molinuevo,Martin ;
Gaillard,Simon Jean Henri
Albania is heavily dependent on its agricultural sector, which accounts for 20.3 percent of GDP, 49 percent of employment and 8.5 percent of total exports. The fruit and vegetable sector represents 20...
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