• Chhattisgarh health and education
    There is mixed progress on health and education in Chhattisgarh. Infant mortality rate is declining, but is still high. Malnutrition and open defecation rates are high, even among the rich. Most adults...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105846 Date: May 20, 2016
  • Technical appendix
    This brief has the Technical Appendix of India which includes the following topics: demographics; poverty; inequality; welfare distribution; income and growth; fical; education; health; infrastructure...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105871 Date: May 20, 2016
  • India’s poverty profile snapshot 2012
    This report presents graphical and tabular presentation of poverty; demographics; main sources of income; household consumption expenditure; assets and education; and services.
    Type: Brief Report#: 106318 Date: May 20, 2016
  • Uttar Pradesh - Health and education
    Uttar Pradesh has made mixed progress on education and health outcomes. Infant mortalityremains high despite improvements in recent years. Open defecation is practiced widely, evenin high income households....
    Type: Brief Report#: 105886 Date: May 20, 2016
  • Uttar Pradesh - Gender
    This brief has the analysis of gender gaps in Uttar Pradesh, India. Gender gaps in Uttar Pradesh are high and persistent. The state has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality. The child sex ratio...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105885 Date: May 20, 2016
  • Chhattisgarh jobs
    A majority of Chhattisgarh’s people are in farming. The share of non-farm employment in the state is the lowest in the country. Half the workforce is self-employed and of the remaining, very few have salaried...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105847 Date: May 20, 2016
  • Odisha - Health and education
    This brief is about the mixed progress on health and education in Odisha, India. Infant mortality in the state is high, but has seen improvement. Malnutrition is particularly high for the poor. There is...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105872 Date: May 20, 2016
  • Climate Hotspots : World Bank Climate Action Plan Supports Cities, Urban Poor
    Much of the power to reduce climate emissions lies now with cities rather than national governments. There is a window of opportunity to build climate-smart cities in developing countries, which account...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166783 Date: May 13, 2016
  • Indonesia GDP Release : 2016 First Quarter
    This issue of Indonesia MTI Economic Note contains economic highlights, including: In Q1 2016, GDP grew at 4.9 percent yoy, slightly below market and World Bank staff expectations and lower than the growth...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131130 Date: May 12, 2016
  • Transport Policies for Climate Change
    The choices developing countries make today in building and expanding transport networks will irreversibly shape development for the next century. That is why urgent steps are needed to ensure that transport...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166368 Date: May 12, 2016
  • Afghanistan Systematic Country Diagnostic: An Analysis of a Country’s Path toward Development
    This brief summarizes the World Bank’s first Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for Afghanistan, which it released in 2016. The SCD is a country-level analytical document that provides an evidence-based...
    Type: Brief Report#: 178922 Date: May 9, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Turning point for energy security in the Caribbean
    This brief focuses on the upcoming US-Caribbean-Central American Energy Summit in Washington, D.C., and the push for energy security in the Caribbean. Ever since the first Summit a year prior, commitments...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179632 Date: May 4, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Improved Irrigation Systems Raise Productivity and Income on Kandahar Farms
    The rehabilitation of irrigation systems in Kandahar Province has led to an increase in agricultural productivity and a significant rise in farmers’ incomes. The rehabilitation projects are being carried...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179048 Date: May 3, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Tanzania - Education
    Tanzania has registered impressive progress in its education sector over the past decade or so. Completion rates in primary increased from 55 percent in 2000 to 80 percent in 2012. Tanzania has also achieved...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105994 Date: May 1, 2016
  • Sorting through the hype : exploring the interface between humanitarian assistance and safety nets
    Global interest around humanitarian and social protection issues is remarkable. These feature prominently in some of today’s most complex development challenges, whether supporting poor people in times...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105769 Date: May 1, 2016 Author: Gentilini,Ugo
  • Poverty rates have declined but vulnerability remains high
    According to World Bank estimates from household surveys, the share of people in Africa living on less than $1.90 a day fell from 56 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2012. Limiting the estimation to comparable...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105630 Date: May 1, 2016 Author: Christiaensen,Luc ; Dabalen,Andrew L. ; Gaddis,Isis ; Beegle,Kathleen G.
  • Djibouti - Solar rural electrification
    The public-private infrastructure advisory facility (PPIAF) supported a prefeasibility study to explore potential private sector participation options for the supply of electricity to rural villages in...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105960 Date: May 1, 2016
  • Women make the best DFS agents : how financial sector alternative delivery channels create business opportunities for women in emerging markets
    New business opportunities are being created for micro entrepreneurs by digital financial services (DFS) and agent banking in Sub-Saharan Africa. The agents who deliver these financial services are mostly...
    Type: Brief Report#: 128215 Date: May 1, 2016 Author: Harten,Sven ; Rusu,Anca Bogdana
  • Progress in non-monetary well-being in Africa, but large challenges remain
    Poverty reduction is not just a matter of improving incomes. Other dimensions that people value, and that cannot be measured by looking at income, include the ability to read and write, the ability to...
    Type: Brief Report#: 105631 Date: May 1, 2016 Author: Beegle,Kathleen G. ; Christiaensen,Luc ; Dabalen,Andrew L. ; Gaddis,Isis
  • Tanzania - Health
    Tanzania has made some phenomenal gains in recent years. For example, the infant mortality rate has fallen by an average 3.2 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among 20 countries in the region....
    Type: Brief Report#: 106089 Date: May 1, 2016
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