In many parts of the world, a combination of social norms and lack of adequate sanitation facilities leaves people with little choice but to defecate in the open. In India, back in 2015, open defecation...
Every year, the World Bank spends millions of dollars on development projects in its member countries. But do these investments reach the poor? This note presents a spatial approach to examine the poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 126924Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Nguyen,Nga Thi Viet ;
Hoogeveen,Johannes G.
In Nepal, as in most developing countries, population increase and rapid urbanization have created challenges for effective and efficient solid waste management (SWM) programs. In just over a decade, Nepal’s...
In 2015, Peru embarked on reforms to attract more commercial financing for its public-private partnership (PPPs) while reducing the need for government guarantees to cover projects’ commercial risk. With...
In Ghana, output-based aid (OBA) was used to improve affordability for households in crowdedlow-income areas of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) to invest in improved household toilets. OBA was...
Type: BriefReport#: 139623Date: June 1, 2018Author:
GPRBA
Government interventions to lower interest rates and expand credit to the rural sector are common in developing countries. Some of these policies, like interest rate subsidies, though well-intentioned,...
To support the growth of sustainable capital flows, IFC’s advisory services seek to influence, support, and enable capital market stakeholders to better integrate environmental, social, and governance...
The last Household and Income Expenditure Survey (HIES) was conducted in Papua New Guinea in 2009—2010, with the previous round conducted in 1996. Poverty, as measured by the international lower middle...
Using the 2011 Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) USD 3.20 per person per day international poverty line for lower middle income countries, poverty in Tonga was 8.9 percent at the time of the 2009 Household...
Zambia is a lower middle-income country that has made significant socioeconomic progress over the past decade, with economic growth averaging 5.7 percent and 2011 per capita income reaching US$1,160. Despite...
It is very difficult to analyze poverty trends in Kiribati due to the infrequency of data collection. The most recent Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) was conducted more than 10 years ago,...
Cote d’Ivoire’s cashew subsector has strong potential for growth if the value chain, and especially local processing, can improve. A new World Bank project, the largest to date in the subsector, is cutting...
Type: BriefReport#: 127329Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Ehui,Simeon Kacou
Like many countries in the Pacific region, the Solomon Islands suffers from infrequent collection of data and a lack of comparability between rounds. Using the international poverty line of USD 1.90 (2011...
Poverty monitoring in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is complicated by irregular data collection. According to the latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), conducted in 2013—2014,...
Output-based aid (OBA) is helping low-income households in rural Bangladesh access microloansto invest in hygienic sanitation facilities. The OBA grant subsidizes the cost of the facilities, reducing the...
Type: BriefReport#: 139620Date: June 1, 2018Author:
GPRBA
An epidemiological transition is well underway in India, in common with countries throughout much of the developing world. The transition refers to a change in the prevailing causes of illness (morbidity)...
Given the significant financing gap to meet the needs of developing countries and achieve theUnited Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, governments, multilaterals and other developmentpartners are...
Type: BriefReport#: 139624Date: June 1, 2018Author:
GPRBA
The Chinese government, based on its commitment to carbon reduction in the Paris Climate Agreement,laid out its intention to achieve peak CO₂ emissions by 2030, and to make its best effort to peak as early...
Type: BriefReport#: 130019Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Zhou,Weimin
There is general recognition across stakeholders in Armenia that the e-health system can facilitate exchange of clinical and non-clinical information, transparency and accountability in service provision,...
For green Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs), access to finance is one of the key constraints in scaling innovative business models. Investors, even those with the intention and mandate to support smaller...
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