Longstanding problems and new challenges often combine to require urgent solutions. Economic growth rates today in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are low and have been so for too long. This translates...
Type: PublicationReport#: 202103Date: June 6, 2025Author:
Cirera, Xavier ;
Ferreyra, Maria Marta ;
Maloney, William F.
Guinea-Bissau’s economy remained resilient in 2024, despite a challenging cashew campaign, with GDP growth reaching 4.8 percent. Activity in the primary sector was affected by a reduction in cashew production...
Type: ReportReport#: 201819Date: June 6, 2025Author:
World Bank
When the state does not reach with the same effectiveness everybody and everywhere, it creates pockets of exclusions and hampers the opportunities of individuals belonging to the excluded groups to participate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11139Date: June 5, 2025Author:
Ceriani, Lidia ;
Lopez-Calva, Luis-Felipe ;
Restrepo Oyola, Samuel David
Panama has experienced significant economic growth over the past three decades, but labor market inequalities have prevented the equitable distribution of benefits. Over the last 30 years, remarkable economic...
Type: ReportReport#: 197251Date: June 5, 2025Author:
Baez, Javier E. ;
Lopez, Angela ;
Moroz, Harry Edmund ;
Viollaz, Mariana
The Land Administration Program (PRODEP) focuses on the modernization of land administration and strengthening property rights using a comprehensive approach that combines legal, policy, and institutional...
Type: BriefReport#: 202079Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Annual Report, covering the period of January to December 2024, summarizes the main activities supported and results achieved by the World Bank's Seoul Center for Finance and Innovation (SCFI).
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 202137Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
The overall goal of the project was to contribute to government agenda to improve quality and effectiveness of public services through spreading and making effective e-government applications. The specific...
Type: BriefReport#: 202078Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
East Asia is helping the rest of the world decarbonize and encouraging the domestic adoption of renewable energy. But there is an imbalance: Even as the region’s innovation and investment improve global...
Type: PublicationReport#: 202071Date: June 5, 2025Author:
de Nicola, Francesca ;
Mattoo, Aaditya ;
Tran, Trang Thu
Panama has experienced remarkable economic growth over the past three decades, yet some of its most pressing challenges reflect deficiencies in human capital accumulation. With an average annual growth...
Type: ReportReport#: 197250Date: June 5, 2025Author:
Bassi, Marina ;
Batista Vega, Juan Alberto ;
Camacho, Adriana ;
Rodriguez Orgales, Catherine ;
Romero, Javier ;
Secci, Federica ;
Yanez Pagans, Monica ;
Zarate, Sofia Collante
The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts
impact evaluations of development interventions and leads policy
research to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in
earnings, productivity,...
Type: BriefReport#: 202075Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Project Development Objective is to build the capacities and institutions necessary to support implementation of the national rural land tenure security program and to register customary land rights...
Type: BriefReport#: 202081Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
The current state of the transport sector in South Sudan is dire. For example, it takes between two to four days to travel from Juba to Wau in South Sudan, a distance of approximately 650 km. In the rainy...
Type: ReportReport#: 202072Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past three decades, Panama has achieved sustained economic growth, which has driven significant job creation. Panama’s GDP per capita increased from 25.7 percent of the level of the United States...
Type: ReportReport#: 197249Date: June 5, 2025Author:
Cadena, Kiyomi E. ;
Inchauste, Gabriela ;
Romero, Javier
This note includes newly developed poverty maps for Panama. In Panama, as in most countries,
household surveys are not designed to produce poverty estimates at highly disaggregated
territorial levels,...
Type: ReportReport#: 197252Date: June 5, 2025Author:
Corral Rodas, Paul Andres ;
Malaga Ortega, Ramiro Alberto ;
Romero, Javier
This report examines the causes of different development outcomes and
suggests ways to promote inclusive prosperity and peace. It does so by looking
at wealth sharing through three prisms: time, space,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202067Date: June 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 24 studies evaluating the impact of formal loans on small and medium-sized enterprise performance. Using a Bayesian hierarchical model, the paper estimates that formal...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11140Date: June 5, 2025Author:
Bruhn, Miriam ;
Ortega Hernandez, Johan Andrey ;
Ruiz Ortega, Claudia
India’s first Regional Express Railway Line will be operated by a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), recently renamed as NaMo Bharat. This semi-high-speed train can travel at speeds of up to 180 km/hour,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202016Date: June 4, 2025Author:
World Bank
Among the successes, the project supported the new Liberia Land Authority to pilot key provisions of the Liberia Land Rights Act of 2018, which recognized customary land rights in Liberia for the first...
Type: BriefReport#: 202033Date: June 4, 2025Author:
World Bank
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