School building projects in Iraq have been and continue to suffer from a significant shortfall in numbers in comparison to an increase in the numbers of students and the inequitable distribution according...
Type: ReportReport#: 185715Date: November 8, 2023Author:
World Bank
On November 8, 2023, Michael 'Mike' James discussed his career as a World Bank health and wellness professional in a Development Reflections interview. Mike was recruited to manage the World Bank Health...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 194276Date: November 8, 2023Author:
World Bank
Chad faces complex and often interlinked challenges that have contributed to its economic fragility while slowing down or undermining inclusive growth. This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) identifies...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 185718Date: November 8, 2023Author:
World Bank
On November 8, 2023, the World Bank Group held a consultation on the proposed World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030, with twelve representatives from various civil society organizations. This discussion...
Type: BriefReport#: 192223Date: November 8, 2023Author:
World Bank
Between 2018 and 2021, the country was beset by multiple crises: severe droughts in 2018 and 2021, escalating violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic, fundamentally affected Afghans' livelihoods, creating...
Type: BriefReport#: 185692Date: November 8, 2023Author:
Bedoya Arguelles, Guadalupe ;
Belyakova, Yulia ;
Coville, Aidan ;
Escande, Thomas ;
Isaqzadeh, Mohammad ;
Ndiaye, Aminata
This disaster risk finance (DRF) diagnostic was prepared as part of a broader engagement between the World Bank and the Government of South Africa (GoSA) on strengthening national and municipal resilience....
Type: ReportReport#: 185689Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Baskaran, Gracelin Christina ;
Maher, Barry Patrick ;
Mahony, Christopher Brian ;
Ndlovu, Qhelile ;
Pietrkiewicz, Michal Krzysztof ;
Stefan, Cristina
Malaysia’s Budget 2021 comes at an especially challenging time. COVID-19 has triggered a global economic shock greater than anything the world economy has seen in a century. World Bank welcomes the overall...
Type: BriefReport#: 185713Date: November 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
On November 7, 2023, the World Bank Group (WBG) held a consultation on the proposed gender strategy 2024-2030 with representatives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The aim of the discussion...
Type: BriefReport#: 192225Date: November 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Kenya Livestock Insurance Programme (KLIP) is a social livelihood protection scheme which is built on index insurance principles. Targeted at some of the most vulnerable pastoralists in Kenya’s Arid...
Type: ReportReport#: 185685Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Lindsey Paul Jones ;
Plevin, John Luke
Using Disaster Risk Financing to Build Adaptive Social Protection in Malawi has been prepared by the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice’s Crisis, and Disaster Risk Finance team in collaboration...
Type: BriefReport#: 185687Date: November 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
In a world affected by growing and overlapping crises that threaten economic development and human well-being, financial resilience against climate shocks and disasters is needed to protect livelihoods...
Sierra Leone remains vulnerable to the financial impacts from a variety of disaster-related shocks and crises, including large annual floods, epidemics like Ebola, and man-made hazards such as severe fires....
Type: ReportReport#: 185673Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Bendu, Franklin Sisabu ;
Lai Ming So ;
Rajput, Sumati
Stakeholder mapping is a simple process of listing all the stakeholders of your project and working through a series of steps to build a strategic engagement and communication plan. This process gives...
Type: ReportReport#: 185676Date: November 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
This paper introduces a new disaggregated and harmonized dataset on public procurement and budget execution by Brazilian subnational entities, which currently covers half of Brazilian municipalities and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10598Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Dahis, Ricardo ;
De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Thiago ;
Moreira, Lucas Nascimento ;
Ricca, Bernardo ;
Sales, Nathalia
The objective of this disaster risk finance (DRF) diagnostic is to assess the status of financial preparedness of Eswatini to disasters and crises. This assessment entails analysis of the following: (i)...
Type: ReportReport#: 185674Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Baskaran, Gracelin Christina ;
Kwaramba, Marko ;
Maher, Barry Patrick ;
Ndlovu, Qhelile ;
Pietrkiewicz, Michal Krzysztof ;
Stefan, Cristina
Spearheaded by the World Bank’s Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program (DRFIP), in close partnership with the European Space Agency’s Center for Earth Observation (ESA/ESRIN), the Next Generation...
Type: ReportReport#: 185675Date: November 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
This toolkit offers new guidance to policy makers on how to design, sequence, and prioritize reforms in sectors with presence of Businesses of the State (BOS). This toolkit offers a flexible approach structured...
Type: ReportReport#: 185707Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Apfalter, Stefan ;
Sanchez Navarro, Dennis
Large Language Models (LLMs) are quickly becoming ubiquitous, but the implications for social science research are not yet well understood. This paper asks whether LLMs can help us analyse large-N qualitative...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10597Date: November 7, 2023Author:
Ashwin, Julian ;
Chhabra, Aditya ;
Rao, Vijayendra
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