Access to clean, potable water is making a significant difference to the health of residents of a village in Herat Province. There has been a decline in waterborne diseases since the installation of a...
Type: BriefReport#: 178815Date: October 3, 2016Author:
World Bank
The note first highlights current land use policies and practices and their effectiveness in creating an environment for community engagement in resource management. The subsequent section offers possible...
Type: BriefReport#: 123739Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Rodrigues De Aquino,Andre ;
Moura Estevao Marquesdafonseca,Joao ;
Mwaniki,Robert Mwehe
Many financial service providers struggle with high levels of account dormancy and customer dropouts, limited service usage, and loss of their best clients to other providers. Negative customer experiences...
Johannesburg, one of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities and one of the 52 health districts has more people living with HIV (PLHIV) than any other city worldwide at ~600,000. This brief provides...
Type: BriefReport#: 110317Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Kganakga, Connie ;
Munthree, Chantal ;
Mohideen, Feroza ;
Wijk, Emay van ;
Massawe, Dianne ;
Nel, Dawie ;
Medeiros, Nelson ;
Ikhile, Albert ;
Sibeko, Vusi ;
Govender, Nevashan ;
Modibedi, Charlotte ;
Arendse, Clairissa
The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how equitably services are provided within countries. The indicator allows to better monitor if children have access to these opportunities independently of individual...
The FIRST Lessons Learned Series is a collection of FIRST’s technical and functional insights gained from FIRST funded engagements. This Knowledge Note, shares insights on Crisis Simulation Exercise, drawn...
Type: BriefReport#: 109243Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Almansi,Aquiles A. ;
Lee,Yejin Carol ;
Todoroki,Emiko
Private sector investment is much needed in emerging markets to upgrade energy supplies, but too often power utilities in these markets are uncompetitive. In order to attract private investment, many aspects...
Type: BriefReport#: 109469Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Rehermann,Thomas ;
Shi, Lin
Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) lags behind other regions in higher education and research output in science, technology, agriculture, health and related fields. Since individual countries have limited...
There has been considerable expansion in routine data generation over the last decade in health care (and beyond) as well as in methodologies and technologies allowing innovative analysis and use of such...
Type: BriefReport#: 110318Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Carmona Maya,Sergio Ivan
The Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) is recognized as a leading voice in the implementation of adaptive learning principles in development and in the transparency and accountability...
Type: BriefReport#: 154678Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Poli,Maria ;
Guerzovich,Maria Florencia
The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has introduced regulation concerning the implementation of the Corporate Governance Guideline for Public Companies (CG Guideline). The regulation, together with circular...
Type: BriefReport#: 109533Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Razook,Chris ;
Erkurtoglu Savas,Leyal
Policy makers worldwide are increasingly appreciating the expanding role that digital financial services play in reaching financially excluded and underserved customers. Though models vary widely, all...
Type: BriefReport#: 110632Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Izaguirre Araujo,Juan Carlos ;
Lyman,Timothy ;
Mcguire,Claire Louise ;
Grace, Dave
This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is...
Type: BriefReport#: 109367Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Buehren,Niklas ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Leonard,Kenneth ;
Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C. ;
Vasilaky,Kathryn
This activity snapshop brief summarizes the agriculture insurance training held on Johannesburg in October 2016 to focus on the fundamen-tals of index insurance, and to discuss a wide array of development-related...
This year will be the fifth consecutive year with global growth below its long-term trend of 3.5 percent observed during 2000-07, standing at last year’s 2.4 percent. This is 0.5 percent below January’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 109328Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
Education is a driver of development around the world. But as many countries have found, getting children into school is only the first step in an education. Not all schools provide the same level of teaching,...
Moderate and gradual changes of the real exchange rate are beneficial for the economy to help it attain domestic and external equilibrium. They should not be feared. However, large and sharp devaluations...
Type: BriefReport#: 109374Date: October 1, 2016Author:
Loayza,Norman V. ;
Mendez Ramos,Fabian
Local governance is being enhanced in Bangladesh as communities are increasingly playing a greater role in their decision-making process. With Bank funding of $290 million, the Second Local Government...
Type: BriefReport#: 178927Date: September 28, 2016Author:
World Bank
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