This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 8, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: starting from 2 January 2019, Bank Indonesia no longer publishes overnight JIBOR (Jakarta Interbank...
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:
Buehler, Martin Reto ;
Gelb, Alan Harold ;
Ramachandran, Vijay
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,...
Well-integrated planning models can help cover the whole planning spectrum - from the national level down to granular distribution at the village level. Integration of models is critical to ensure that...
Type: BriefReport#: 144987Date: January 2, 2019Author:
Srinivasan,Rahul,Chattopadhyay,Debabrata
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:
Choi, Min Ju ;
Crouch, Luis A. ;
Denboba, Amina Debissa ;
Devercelli, Amanda Epstein ;
Gurgel, Anita Amaral ;
Merseth, Katherine
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,...
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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....
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 122319Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Dassanou, Marieme Esther ;
Holliday, Susan Claire
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 ;
Shrader, Hans ;
Thendiu, Isaac Njoro ;
Wigenge, Raymond Nicholaus
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...
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...
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