The World Bank Group’s offering on Good Regulatory Practices is to help developing countries respond to these new challenges, the World Bank Group (WBG) offers a Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) solution...
The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), through its Energy Subsidy Reform Facility, provided just-in-time support to the Government of Haiti as it struggled to phase out fuel subsidies....
Type: BriefReport#: 120090Date: May 1, 2017Author:
ESMAP
This Migration and Development Brief provides an update on worldwide remittance flows and the global migration crisis. It focuses on two Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators: reducing remittance...
In 2007 Jordan lacked the financial resources and experience to embark on a renovation and expansion of its international airport, a colossal public-private undertaking. Yet by 2013 it was able to successfully...
Type: BriefReport#: 115708Date: April 20, 2017Author:
Shi,Lin ;
Rehermann,Thomas
For agriculture to be sustainable, land and water must be used efficiently to reduce negative impact on the environment and ensure resilience to climate change. The World Bank champions a landscape approach...
Across the globe, women make up a large part of agricultural labor. But women own fewer assets, and have less access to inputs and services than men. To further complicate things, equal access to resources...
Population growth, changing appetites and rising food demand are fueling growth in the food and agriculture sector. The sector is a lifeline where sixty-five percent of poor working adults relied on agriculture...
The global infrastructure connectivity alliance (GICA) strives to promote cooperation, knowledge exchange, and meaningful progress in the field of global inter-connectivity. GICA is a G20 initiative whose...
Hydrological and meteorological (hydromet) hazards are responsible for 90 percent of total disaster losses worldwide. Between 1970 and 2012, that meant economic losses of 2.4 trillion, and the deaths of...
Set up in 2014, the South Asia gender innovation lab (GIL) develops and uses robust diagnostic tools to better understand the gender impact of development activities, identify, and evaluate innovative...
The principal purpose of the survey was to inform the mid-term review (MTR) of the Community Governance and Grievance Management (CG and GM) Project. The MTR will enable partners to reflect on achievements...
The term ‘community Results-Based Financing’ (cRBF) has been used to qualify a range of schemes whereby community actors such as community organizations, community health workers (CHW), and health facility...
Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced remarkable gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the last decade. However, it lacks the highly skilled human capital needed to take this vibrant growth to the next level....
Customer centricity is, at its core, about understanding and meeting the needs of customers. From a business perspective, this means that generating greater value for customers is good for business because...
At the start of the project in 2012, Armenia faced many adverse conditions. The country’s tax-to-GDP (16.3 percent) and tax productivity were persistently below regional averages and other lower-middle...
Type: BriefReport#: 129240Date: April 1, 2017Author:
Eckardt,Sebastian
Agricultural value chains play an important role in providing financial services that help to reduce risk, improve crop yields, manage liquidity, and transact with markets. But for many of the world’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 119216Date: April 1, 2017Author:
Mattern,Max William ;
Ramirez,Rossana Margarita
Implementation of the ten-year strategy, that is, the programme décennal de développement du secteur de l’education (PDDE), formulated by the Government of Niger at the beginning of the last decade and...
Type: BriefReport#: 119482Date: April 1, 2017Author:
Atakhodjaeva,Raykhona ;
Rockmore,Christophe
Commodity exchanges can provide emerging market economies with orderly, transparent, and efficient markets by acting as mechanisms that mitigate price risk, discover equilibrium prices, and connect buyers...
The infrastructure financing gap remains a critical global challenge for sustainable development. New thinking and innovative financial models are needed in order to mobilize more private capital to infrastructure...
Type: BriefReport#: 115705Date: April 1, 2017Author:
Mapila,Kopo Gary ;
Lauridsen,Morten Lykke ;
Chastenay,Carl
The rapid growth of mobile financial services (MFS) is arguably the single most significant contributor to increased financial inclusion in emerging markets today. It has facilitated access to cheap and...
Type: BriefReport#: 119208Date: April 1, 2017Author:
Buku,Mercy Wangari ;
Mazer,Rafe
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