Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning...
Type: BriefReport#: 106485Date: June 27, 2016Author:
Hasan,Rifat Afifa ;
Moucheraud,Corrina
Early Childhood Development (ECD) is a holistic concept that refers to the physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and linguistic development of young children until the time they transition to primary school....
Type: BriefReport#: 106487Date: June 27, 2016Author:
Naudeau,Sophie ;
Hasan,Rifat Afifa
Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth employment in developing countries. But do increased skills lead to delays in early...
Type: BriefReport#: 106483Date: June 27, 2016Author:
Chakravarty,Shubha ;
Haddock,Sarah Elizabeth ;
Botea,Ioana Alexandra
Teenage pregnancies have potential negative consequences on the next generation. Children born to adolescent mothers are particularly at risk in terms of health, nutrition, cognitive and socio-emotional...
Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are beginning...
Crowdfunding is a technology-enabled approach to raising funding online from multiple individuals to finance a projector business venture. An entrepreneur launches a campaignon a crowdfunding platform...
Type: BriefReport#: 107745Date: June 27, 2016Author:
Zheng,Xue ;
Raymond,Samuel ;
Ehst,Michael ;
Caldwell,Lauren Anne ;
Vesco,Nicola ;
Lee,Heejin
The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC), launched inNairobi in September 2012, was the first Climate InnovationCenter (CIC) to be established by the World Bank Group’s Climate Technology Program. CICs...
Adolescence is a time of transitions that foster both challenges and opportunities. Indeed, choices made during adolescence not only have immediate consequences but also greatly influence the economic...
Promoting relevant technical and life skills is one option to empower adolescent girls by increasing their capacity to generate income and therefore by enhancing their bargaining power within the household....
Type: BriefReport#: 106482Date: June 24, 2016Author:
Khan,Ayesha ;
Mupuwaliywa,Mupuwaliywa
The World Bank-financed Higher Education Quality Enhancement Program (HEQEP), implemented by the University Grants Commission and the Ministry of Education and the World Bank through Better Stories organized...
Type: BriefReport#: 179402Date: June 24, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief is a statement on the report titled Land Administration and Management in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, which was completed and publicly released in February 2015. The purpose of this important report...
Type: BriefReport#: 178715Date: June 24, 2016Author:
World Bank
International evidence indicates that keeping girls in school positively impacts their life trajectory and benefits the well-being of the next generation. Malawi has made progress in increasing overall...
Type: BriefReport#: 106480Date: June 24, 2016Author:
Mcconnell,Christin ;
Mupuwaliywa,Mupuwaliywa
Gender gaps in education have closed in almost all countries, especially at the primary level. In fact, these gaps have reversed in many countries in secondary education, especially in Latin America, the...
Type: BriefReport#: 106481Date: June 24, 2016Author:
Özler,Berk
Adolescence is a time of transitions that foster both challenges and opportunities. Indeed, choices made during adolescence not only have immediate consequences but also greatly influence the economic...
30,000 people are enjoying quicker access to schools, markets, and health care through a recently paved road connecting their villages to the center of Kandahar city. This and many other newly asphalted...
Type: BriefReport#: 179133Date: June 22, 2016Author:
World Bank
Children are transforming their lives through music at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, where half the students come from impoverished backgrounds. The institute, the only music school in the...
Type: BriefReport#: 179131Date: June 14, 2016Author:
World Bank
Experts from the World Bank’s Innovation Lab visited Argentina to demonstrate the potential of drones in forest management. This activity was implemented in the framework of the partnership with the Native...
Type: BriefReport#: 179584Date: June 14, 2016Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the African law students are changing the way we access data by leading efforts to disseminate Africa’s mining legal frameworks through the African Mining Legislation Atlas (AMLA)...
Extractive companies generate revenue through payment of taxes and royalties to government, but sometimes the results of these contributions are not seen or felt by local populations. Too often tax revenue...
Type: BriefReport#: 185353Date: June 6, 2016Author:
World Bank
The overall purpose was to identify how reconstruction of infrastructure and provision ofessential services could be more effective,especially in countries, such as Lebanon andJordan, facing a massive...
Type: BriefReport#: 108683Date: June 1, 2016Author:
Tayler,Yolanda
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