Financial firms seeking to make more green finance available in emerging markets face an array of challenges including regulatory gaps, and poor incentives for local firms to adopt more ambitious climate...
Type: ReportReport#: 185922Date: November 1, 2023Author:
Demekas, Dimitrios ;
Stallings, Jessica Anne
We examine recently collected data from Haiti’s social registry new shock module to measure the scale of the August 2021 earthquake’s impact on households and assess the adequacy of the relief response....
Type: ReportReport#: 185701Date: November 1, 2023Author:
Jaupart, Pascal Jean Edouard ;
Kharb, Aditi ;
Manigat, Ailo Klara ;
Tassot, Caroline Anne Isabelle ;
Tesliuc, Cornelia M.
The frequency and cost of climate change-related disasters have been on the rise in Brazil in the recent decades. Despite Brazil’s progress in decreasing poverty over the past decades, climate change is...
Type: ReportReport#: 191341Date: November 1, 2023Author:
Ed, Malin Linnea Sofia ;
Ferreira, Renata Aparecida ;
Gonzalez, Alejandro
World Bank project focused on skills development opportunities to enhance employability of youth (particularly women and those from marginalized groups) in Ethiopia.
Type: ReportReport#: 187757Date: November 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in São Tomé and Príncipe assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in São Tomé and Príncipe perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic...
Type: ReportReport#: 187840Date: November 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
The education sector in the Lao PDR (Laos) faces significant challenges. Access to education improved over of the past decade but substantial gaps remain, and previous progress is being undermined by the...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 186994Date: November 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
The conflict in the Middle East - the latest of an extraordinary series of shocks in recent years—has heightened geopolitical risks for commodity markets, in an already uncertain global environment. Before...
Type: Commodities StudyReport#: 200847Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
Introducing new data is important as we recognize the limitations of current entrepreneurship ecosystem methodologies, such as a lack in granularity, lack in geographic scope, lack in frequency, and expensive...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0003545Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
Many low, and middle-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa face an education financing crisis. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid improvements in access place severe pressure on the adequacy...
The industrial production index grew by 2.89 percent m/m (SA) in October, due to the continued recovery of manufacturing exports. However, prospects remain fragile as Vietnam’s PMI remained in contractionary...
Type: BriefReport#: 185941Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic washed over Türkiye at the beginning of March 2020, resulting in widespread school closures for an extended period. During this time, widespread distance education via Türkiye’s existing...
Type: BriefReport#: 186940Date: October 31, 2023Author:
Abdul-Hamid, Husein ;
Bathanti, Jacob J
This working paper presents learnings from CGAP research, to show how gender
dynamics can influence agent networks to be more inclusive of women and other
vulnerable customer segments. This paper contributes...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186132Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
International Development Association (IDA) 20 identifies crisis preparedness as a policy priority. Its goal is to enhance countries’ understanding of key crisis risks, strengthen country capacity to manage...
Type: ReportReport#: 188538Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
With this report, the World Bank begins to address the anxieties of ‘intermittent’ solar and wind. We introduce a complete framework that outlines how modern battery energy storage systems can be effectively...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 185986Date: October 31, 2023Author:
Jain, Amit ;
Kanaan, Talal ;
Maurer, Luiz
The World Bank has a large portfolio of investments supporting entrepreneurship. These investments are spread across countries in different regions, with varying income levels, and in various World Bank...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0003545Date: October 31, 2023Author:
Vargas da Cruz, Marcio Jose ;
Zhu, Tingting Juni
Global economic growth is set to slow in 2023, compared with the previous year. Continued high inflation and the effects of monetary policy tightening added pressures to economic growth over the short...
Type: ReportReport#: 191899Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
The earthquakes which struck southeast Türkiye on February 6, 2023, continue to pose increased risk of falling into poverty for population in the affected areas 11 provinces which are home to 16.4 percent...
Type: ReportReport#: 191133Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
This report builds a compelling case for India to look beyond land and institute an ecosystem that supports the installation and operationalization of floating solar photovoltaics (FSPV) power plants....
Type: ReportReport#: 186483Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
This newsletter highlights: featured works on vocational education and training (VET) teachers; essential reading; what’s brewing at the WBG?; and help desk.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 192541Date: October 31, 2023Author:
Angel-Urdinola, Diego ;
Tanaka, Nobuyuki
Technology and data are integral to daily life. As health systems face increasing demands to deliver new, more, better, and seamless services affordable to all people, data and technology are essential....
Type: ReportReport#: 184563Date: October 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
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