This Brief examines the challenges in implementing laws protecting women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. While some progress has been made in enacting legal protections, remaining discriminatory legislation,...
Type: BriefReport#: 185724Date: October 23, 2023Author:
Behr, Daniela Monika ;
Groussard, Heloise Marie ;
Khaitina, Viktoria ;
Shen, Liang
Between October 20 and 23, 2023, the World Bank Group conducted a series of consultations in Kazakhstan on the proposed World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030. These discussions aimed to engage, learn,...
Type: BriefReport#: 192207Date: October 23, 2023Author:
World Bank
This legal study is based on Legal Dimensions of Sea Level Rise: Pacific Perspectives which was published on June 29, 2021. The original version provided an assessment of key legal frameworks and policy...
Type: ReportReport#: 185428Date: October 23, 2023Author:
Cicek, Duygu ;
Freestone, David
Romania has made impressive strides in raising its economic performance over the past two decades but continues to face substantive economic, inclusion and sustainability challenges. Over the past couple...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 185420Date: October 21, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
The document collection discusses the Cambodia Water Supply and Sanitation Acceleration Project and its supplementary note on climate co-benefits. It highlights the vulnerability of the region to climate...
Type: ReportReport#: 188373Date: October 21, 2023Author:
World Bank
The World Bank Group (WBG) operates in an increasingly challenging global context, demanding a sharpened focus on fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). Chronic instability in some of the world’s poorest...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 185498Date: October 20, 2023Author:
World Bank
This Approach Paper proposes an independent evaluation of the results achieved by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in supporting countries (understood as governments, private...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 185416Date: October 20, 2023Author:
World Bank
Small firms struggle to grow beyond a few employees. We introduce monitoring
devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomize which minibus owners have
access to the data using a novel mobile app....
Type: ReportReport#: 192140Date: October 20, 2023Author:
Kelley, Erin ;
Lane, Gregory ;
Schonholzer, David
Gisela is among the large and diverse group of informal sector workers in urban Liberia who lack social protection coverage, have little interaction with formal financial institutions, and depend on informal...
PROBLUE, an Umbrella 2.0 trust fund program, is the World Bank’s Blue Economy program. Created in 2018, PROBLUE is committed to
supporting the development of integrated, sustainable, and healthy marine...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 185394Date: October 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Management Action Record (MAR) provides Management’s annual self-assessment of World Bank Group (WBG)-wide progress in implementing recommendations from the Independent Evaluation Group's (IEG) major...
Type: ReportReport#: 185358Date: October 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
The report provides the Independent Evaluation Group’s (IEGs) validation of World Bank Group management’s report Learning and Adapting for Outcomes through the Management Action Record 2023: A World Bank...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 184583Date: October 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
We use global and regional data to show that it is possible to use EdTech to improve student learning in EAP. We present evidence that the broadcast/dual teacher model often supports student learning gains,...
Type: ReportReport#: 185387Date: October 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
Going forward, this study finds that tackling the following issues will be key to expanding and modernizing Ethiopia’s health workforce: (i) a mismatch between the skills taught in health education and...
Type: ReportReport#: 186041Date: October 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, Togo’s economy has shown signs of resilience in the face of shocks but efforts to reduce poverty were frustrated and fiscal space depleted. Togo was able to avoid a...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0003392Date: October 19, 2023Author:
Kouwoaye, Amevi Rocard ;
Stocker, Marc
On October 18 and 19, 2023, the World Bank Group conducted a series of consultations in the Kyrgyz Republic on the proposed World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030. These discussions aimed to engage,...
Type: BriefReport#: 192209Date: October 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
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