This paper offers three key contributors to the excising literature. Firstly, it reviews
the use of technology across each phase of delivering social protection and labor (SPL) benefits and services. Secondly,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 185112Date: October 6, 2023Author:
Bastagli, Francesca Adele ;
Lowe, Christina Louise ;
Rigolini, Iamele P. ;
Solbes Castro, Lucia
There is a strong commitment to education. Even so, it is
important to distinguish between a country’s commitment
to education and the resources it has available to invest.
The pandemic caused significant...
Type: BriefReport#: 185115Date: October 6, 2023Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
The Republic of Congo (RoC) CCDR is a new World Bank core diagnostic report that integrate climate change and development considerations. It is intended to help the country prioritize the most impactful...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 185109Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
The Philippines sustained robust economic growth in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. With increasing urbanization, a growing middle class, and a large and young population, the Philippines...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 181146Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
Using official employment surveys for 45 advanced economies and Latin American countries, this paper shows that the positive cross-country correlation between business size and GDP per capita is tighter...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10584Date: October 6, 2023Author:
Eslava, Marcela ;
Melendez Arjona, Marcela ;
Tenjo Galvis, Laura Daniela ;
Urdaneta, Nicolás
The Philippines is highly vulnerable to multiple hazards including tropical cyclones, floods, storm surges, droughts caused by El Niño, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. While the country has made significant...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 181146Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
The World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys were deployed to support the monitoring of household welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of the regular household survey data collection was suspended....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10585Date: October 6, 2023Author:
Brunckhorst, Ben James ;
Cojocaru, Alexandru ;
Kim, Yeon Soo
Informality is a multidimensional development challenge with features that potentially differ across workers, firms, and countries. This paper first briefly summarizes the literature, discusses the multiple...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10586Date: October 6, 2023Author:
Hapsari, Indira Maulani ;
Mansour, Wael ;
Pape, Utz Johann ;
Shu Yu
Continued growth in the drivers for transportation demand such as economic growth, population growth, urbanization, and rapid motorization in the Philippines highlights the importance of changing the course...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 181146Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
Real GDP growth decreased to an estimated 1.9 percent in FY23, the lowest rate since FY20 and substantially below the 10-year average growth rate. Monetary tightening and the effects of import restrictions...
Type: ReportReport#: 185100Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank
Climate change damages in the Philippines can materialize from two general sources: gradual decline from changing climate conditions or sudden shocks from extreme weather events. The impact of slow on...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 181146Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
The Philippines Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aims to analyze
comprehensively how climate change will affect the country's ability to meet its development goals and green, resilient, and...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 181146Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
Climate change poses major risks for development in the Philippines. Climate shocks, whether in the form of extreme weather events or slow-onset trends - will hamper economic activities, damage infrastructure,...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 181146Date: October 6, 2023Author:
World Bank Group
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on men’s labor market outcomes in the West Bank and Gaza, examining adjustments at the extensive (participation) and intensive (hours of work) margins...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10587Date: October 6, 2023Author:
Deng, Jingyuan ;
Elmallakh, Nelly ;
Flabbi, Luca ;
Gatti, Roberta V.
Most forcibly displaced households and host populations declare feeling safe, and comfortable having displaced neighbors. Moreover, respondents agree that women can be good leaders. Also, the majority...
Type: BriefReport#: 185101Date: October 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Europe and Central...
Type: ReportReport#: 185089Date: October 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
Forcibly displaced populations more often needed health care, compared to host populations, but had similar access to treatment. While a larger share of children returned to school as of January 2022,...
Type: BriefReport#: 185104Date: October 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
This report aims to guide the policy makers in World Bank client jurisdictions in continuously improving their assessments and understandings of money laundering and terrorist financing risks in their...
Type: ReportReport#: 185098Date: October 5, 2023Author:
Celik, Kuntay
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets and developing economies. We work in more than 100 countries, using...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 185188Date: October 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
The World Bank’s (WB’s) multi-donor trust fund (MDTF) to Advance Universal Health Coverage (AUHC) supports developing countries advance towards universal health coverage (UHC) while effectively managing...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 185091Date: October 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
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