Forests are vital storehouses of carbon on our planet. However, when forests are cleared to make way for agriculture and other activities, they emit large quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse...
This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Niger. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 76.8 percent and it has not declined...
Type: BriefReport#: 106411Date: March 16, 2016Author:
Malé,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The formal timber sector employs more than 13.2 million people. It also produces more than 5,000 types of wood-based products, and generates a gross value added of over 600 billion dollars each year. But...
An estimated 1.3 billion people, about one-fifth of the global population derive direct and indirect benefits from forests and trees in the form of employment, forest products, and contributions to livelihoods...
Forests and their biodiversity sustain the planet and provide services such as soil retention, erosion control, water and climate regulation, and pollination. These 'ecosystem services' enable economic...
A new all-season road has improved the quality of life for residents of a village in Kandahar Province, allowing them to access health care, schools, and markets, as well as building a sense of community....
Type: BriefReport#: 179132Date: March 15, 2016Author:
World Bank
Nearly four out of five Latin Americans live in the region’s cities. With such high levels of urbanization there is a significant gap in services between the urban and rural areas. As a region, Latin America...
Type: BriefReport#: 179586Date: March 14, 2016Author:
World Bank
This story highlights a World Bank report aims to improve the standardization, classification, and accessibility of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) data. Boosting consistency and accessibility...
This story highlights In rural Mali, women entrepreneurs run small businesses powered by mini-grids. Electrified villages show more economic activity, which enables households and entrepreneurs to pay...
In 2012, the Russian Federation announced one of the world’s more ambitious broadband Internet development goals: providing 80 percent of Russian households with ultrafast connection speeds - at least...
In developing countries, structural transformation started much later, mostly in the 1900s. The structural transformation of the agricultural sector has been characterized by the relative decline of basic...
Type: BriefReport#: 104231Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Divanbeigi,Raian ;
Paustian,Nina ;
Loayza,Norman V.
A majority of the countries in the Africa Region are struggling to make meaningful progress in reforming teacher management. The authors know that promoting sound recruitment and deployment, performance...
The World Bank's biannual Mozambique Economic Update (MEU) series is designed to present timely, concise assessments of current economic trends in Mozambique in light of the country's broader development...
Type: BriefReport#: 105088Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Revilla,Julio E. ;
Mahdi,Shireen ;
Sharma,Natasha ;
Allen Massingue,Anna Carlotta ;
Gutierrez Iriarte,Waldo Mario ;
Ramos, Maria Grácia ;
Karkare,Poorva Shreerang
Measures of early childbirth are high in Cote d’Ivoire. The share of women ages 18-22 who had a child before 18 is 29.7 percent, but it has decreased over time. The share of girls who had a child before...
Type: BriefReport#: 106385Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Male,Chata
This brief has provided a basic profile of early childbirth in Chad. Measures of early childbirth are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who had their first child before 18 is 44.8 percent and it has...
Type: BriefReport#: 105913Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Male,Chata
Guinean’s national power utility, Electricité de Guinée (EDG), is responsible for providingpower generation, transmission, and distribution services across the country. However, electricity distribution...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often face greater credit constraints than large firms because they lack audited financial statements and other information about their operations, and as a result,...
Type: BriefReport#: 104019Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Arráiz,Irani ;
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Stucchi,Rodolfo Mario
The European Commission (EC) and the World Bank, in cooperation with individual European Union (EU) member states, have developed a set of high-resolution poverty maps. The greater geographical disaggregation...
This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Senegal. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 31.4 percent, but it has declined...
Type: BriefReport#: 106419Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Civil wars and violence have significantly damaged human, social and physical capital in the war-torn countries of Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. The results on educational attainment are devastating. Estimates...
Type: BriefReport#: 105731Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
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