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...
Type: BriefReport#: 103839Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Gelvanovska,Natalija ;
Rossotto,Carlo Maria ;
Gunzburger,Michael Lee
Measures of child marriage are high in Uganda. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 36.5 percent, but it has declined over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age...
Type: BriefReport#: 106421Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The latest MENA Quarterly Economic Brief estimates growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region to fall short of expectation at 2.6 percent in 2015, about 0.2 percentage points below the October...
Type: BriefReport#: 105730Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
Located in eastern India, Bihar is a low income state (LIS) with around 104 million people. According to the Government of India (GoI), over half the population is Below Poverty Line (BPL). In addition,...
The Poverty Mapping in the European Union (EU) project, an initiative of the World Bank and European Commission (EC) in cooperation with EU member states, has developed a set of high-resolution poverty...
This brief has provided a basic profile of early childbirth in Zambia. Measures of early childbirth are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who had their first child before 18 is29.5 percent, but it has...
Type: BriefReport#: 106424Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Burkina Faso. Measures of child marriage are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 49.8 percent and it has not declined...
Type: BriefReport#: 105910Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Malé, Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Measures of child marriage are high in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 35.9 percent, but it has declined over time. The share of girls marrying...
Type: BriefReport#: 105918Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Guinea. Measures of child marriage are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 51.1 percent, but it has declined over...
Type: BriefReport#: 105926Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Ghana. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women aged 18-22 who married as children is 17.2 percent and it has declined substantially...
Type: BriefReport#: 105924Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Malé,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The European Commission and the World Bank, in cooperation with individual EU member states, have developed a set of high resolution poverty maps. The greater geographic disaggregation of the new poverty...
This note is based on an assessment undertaken by the World Bank following a request by the Government of Paraguay. The study evaluated agricultural risks, proposing solutions for reducing the volatility...
In Indonesia, researchers evaluated a project to expand access to early childhood services in the country’s poorest areas by giving communities grants for preschools and providing teacher training and...
Type: BriefReport#: 105171Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Marcus,Aliza
In Ghana, the agricultural sector remains the backbone of the economy. Nearly two decades of productivity growth, beginning in the early 1990s, has helped put Ghana back on a path to recovery following...
Type: BriefReport#: 104127Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Choudhary,Vikas ;
Christienson, Garry ;
D'Alessandro,Stephen Paul ;
Josserand,Henri P.
This brief has provided a basic profile of early childbirth in Egypt. Measures of early childbirth are high. The share of women aged 18-22 who had their first child before 18 is 6.6 percent and it has...
Type: BriefReport#: 105921Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Male,Chata
The European Commission (EC) and the World Bank, in cooperation with individual Europen Union (EU) member states, have developed a set of high-resolution poverty maps. The greater geographical disaggregation...
A recent overview of World Bank social safety net programs and gender highlighted the need for greater consideration of intra-household dynamics in the design of social protection programs (Bardasi 2014)....
Type: BriefReport#: 103851Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Guilbert,Nathalie Marie ;
Pierotti,Rachael Susan
Measures of early childbirth are high in Mauritania. The share of women ages 18-22 who had a child before 18 is 19.8 percent, but it has decreased over time. The share of girls who had a child before the...
Type: BriefReport#: 106406Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Measures of child marriage are high in Nepal. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 38.5 percent, but it has declined substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early,...
Type: BriefReport#: 106409Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Infrastructure assets are characterized by large irreversible investments with a long lifespan and limited alternative uses. In a typical infrastructure planning and public investment management context,...
Type: BriefReport#: 133975Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Sundararajan,Satheesh Kumar ;
Suriyagoda,Nuwan
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