Many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have actively embraced the potential of agent banking and rapidly developed and implemented their own agent banking models, with promising results for the expansion...
Type: BriefReport#: 128210Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Denyes,Lesley Sarah ;
Tar,Marie-Sophie ;
Siedek,Hannah Philippa Maria
The sector is in the process of repositioning itselftoward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) theinternational focus of the water sector was predominantlyon...
This report analyzes data for the feed the future Nigeria livelihoods project impact evaluation baseline survey. The baseline survey was completed before the start of the rainy season between May 2015...
Type: BriefReport#: 119680Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Papineni,Sreelakshmi ;
Bastian,Gautam Gustav ;
Osinibi,Olubunkola Olufunmilayo
This brief draws from the health financing system assessment (HFSA), which is a diagnostic assessment protocol aimed at identifying critical constraints and opportunities facing Indonesia’s health financing...
This brief is on the Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (MINIS) Project, which provides technical assistance to help Mongolia build its capacity to apply international standards when analyzing and...
Type: BriefReport#: 180902Date: October 27, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief is a summary of the World Bank’s latest Sri Lanka Development Update, a half-yearly report on the Sri Lankan economy and its prospects. It finds that monetary and fiscal policy corrections and...
Type: BriefReport#: 179352Date: October 27, 2016Author:
World Bank
Doctors at a hospital in Herat city carried out the country’s first kidney transplant after a series of training sessions in the diagnosis and treatment of renal disease. The capacity building opportunities...
Type: BriefReport#: 178929Date: October 26, 2016Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project supports smallholder farmers through new technologies, improved market access and climate-smart agriculture approaches....
The historic Paris Agreement, reached at COP21 in December 2015, calls on the world to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue...
A research station in Herat Province is successfully contributing to ongoing research to improve and sustain seed production, which will result in high-yielding, hardier crop varieties. The research farm,...
Type: BriefReport#: 179146Date: October 19, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses on Chevano Baker, a young Jamaican enrolled at the prestigious University of Birmingham, UK, to pursue a Master’s degree in Financial Economics, who attributes his completion of high...
Type: BriefReport#: 179587Date: October 13, 2016Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the World Bank is working to build a food system that can feed everyone, every day with a safe and nutritious diet, delivered in a sustainable way. Agriculture produces 25 percent...
This brief focuses on the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development II (RERED II) project, which is providing solar power to growing numbers of rural homes and farms in Bangladesh that are...
Type: BriefReport#: 179351Date: October 12, 2016Author:
World Bank
Every year, two million youths enter the job market in Bangladesh. An increasingly skilled labor force is vital to accelerate economic growth. Through the Skills and Training Enhancement Project, Bangladesh...
Type: BriefReport#: 179123Date: October 11, 2016Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable countries to flooding and climate change impacts. The Community Climate Change Project is one of a group of initiatives in Bangladesh fighting these mounting threats...
Type: BriefReport#: 179047Date: October 11, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses on the Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Project, which was launched on September 25th at a ceremony attended by over 400 representatives from donor communities, international organizations,...
Type: BriefReport#: 179033Date: October 10, 2016Author:
World Bank
Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement Project (NJLIP) provides monetary supports for Bangladeshis facing poverty in about 2,500 villages covering 12 districts. On its current growth path, NJLIP will benefit...
Type: BriefReport#: 179394Date: October 10, 2016Author:
World Bank
Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROSC) gives a second chance to Bangladeshi children who didn’t start primary school when they should have. ROSC has since 2002 enrolled nearly 690,000 out-of-school children...
Type: BriefReport#: 178926Date: October 6, 2016Author:
World Bank
Through the Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP), Bangladesh is promoting programs that alleviate poverty and increase food security, especially by boosting production of high-value fruit...
Type: BriefReport#: 178925Date: October 6, 2016Author:
World Bank
Investing in the early years is one of the smartest things a country can do to eliminate extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and create the human capital needed for economies to diversify and grow....
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