The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
Agriculture is the economic backbone of Nepal. It contributes more than a third of the country’s gross domestic product and is the primary—and often the only—source of income for Nepalis who live in remote...
Ethiopia suffers from a long history of drought due to increasing dependency on rain-fed agriculture and years of extremely poor rainfall. The aftermath of drought weighs heavily on Ethiopians. The program,...
Type: BriefReport#: 103262Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
Between 1950 and 2000, Namibia saw substantial gains in life expectancy at birth, boosted by a decline in infant and child mortality of approximately 70 percent. As a response to falling mortality, the...
The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
Using survey data on informal firms in Myanmar, a number of issues related to firm-size,productivity, business environment, gender disparity and registration costs and benefits arediscussed. The findings...
Type: BriefReport#: 111251Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Amin,Mohammad
NephroPlus aims to reach over 40,000 patients and help create 10,000 skilled jobs,including doctors, nurses, and dialysis technicians. Almosta third of these jobs will be for women.NephroPlus is on track...
The Kenya climate innovation center (KCIC), launched in Nairobi in September 2012, was the first climate innovation center (CIC) to be established by the World Bank Group’s climate technology program....
Type: BriefReport#: 115292Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Lee, Jin ;
Ehst,Michael ;
Zheng,Xue ;
Theuri, Martin
In the Philippines, only 71 percent of the rural population or approximately 72 million people have access to safe or improved sanitation. This leaves around 10 million people practicing open defecation...
Type: BriefReport#: 104129Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Galing,Edkarl M. ;
Gabe,Vida Zorah S.
Water policies and investments in the agricultural water sector involve complex tradeoffs. Essential to understanding the choices that need to be made, is an analysis of the social and economic impacts...
Type: BriefReport#: 103539Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kuriakose,Anne T. ;
Ahlers, Rhodante
Two Chinese high-speed rail (HSR) projects supported by World Bank loans - the Nanning-Guangzhou (Nanguang) and Guiyang-Guangzhou (Guiguang) - began operations in late December 2014. The services have...
Type: BriefReport#: 102815Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Zhou,Nanyan ;
Bullock,Richard G. ;
Jin,Ying ;
Lawrence,Martha B. ;
Ollivier,Gerald Paul
Nepal is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including earthquakes. In April and May 2015, two high magnitude earthquakes rocked the Kathmandu Valley, claiming nearly 8,800 lives. Following the initial...
Type: BriefReport#: 103264Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been affected by 388 disasters in the past 35 years. The number of natural disaster in the region has nearly tripled since 1980. In response, the Global...
Type: BriefReport#: 103270Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
This guidance note is about a recent mining boom in Odisha, that accelerated and diversified economic growth in the Indian state. However, the boom did not reduce poverty in the mining region. Meanwhile,...
Type: BriefReport#: 103934Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kannan,Sridar Padmanabhan ;
Peter Van Der Veen
The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
Lesotho has experienced a significant demographic transition over the last fifty years, with both mortality and fertility decreasing sharply. Between 1950 and the early-1990s, infant and child mortality...
In the Pacific Island nation of Samoa, tropical storms often cause devastating damage to homes, infrastructure, and communities. Following the powerful Tropical Cyclone Evan that swept across the island...
Type: BriefReport#: 103267Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
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