This disaster risk finance (DFR) diagnostic was prepared by the World Bank Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice in response to a request from the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) for a study...
Type: ReportReport#: 200027Date: March 25, 2025Author:
Ndlovu, Qhelile ;
Pietrkiewicz, Michal Krzysztof ;
Chituku, Tawanda
In 2012, Somalia was considered a failed state characterized by multiple, protracted, and deeply rooted fragility and development challenges. Today, Somalia remains one of the poorest and most fragile...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 197395Date: March 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
Managing the impacts of disasters in emerging markets is an urgent necessity as climate related shocks grow in frequency and intensity. Governments face fiscal constraints, and insurance penetration remains...
This Knowledge Note presents two sets of analytical work to further our understanding of the links between public support in the agrifood sector and healthy diets. While the analytical work here is mostly...
Type: ReportReport#: 200021Date: March 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Middle East and North Africa faces significant climate challenges, such as increasing temperatures, heightened flood risks, frequent droughts, and growing air pollution issues. These challenges are...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11092Date: March 25, 2025Author:
Balasubramanian, Chitra ;
Baquie, Sandra ;
Fuchs, Alan
Togo has achieved significant development gains over the last decade, but progress is still held back by slow structural transformation and a large urban-rural divide. Togo was able to achieve relatively...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 200057Date: March 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
The employment structure in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) differs markedly from that in advanced economies, which has implications for adjustment to cyclical conditions. This paper...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11089Date: March 24, 2025Author:
Loungani,Prakash ;
Luttini, Emiliano Evaristo ;
Pallan, Hayley Marie
The World Bank Group considers itself a “Knowledge Bank.” The Bank’s knowledge work contributes to development outcomes both by informing clients in various policy and reform areas, and by informing staff...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 197067Date: March 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Handbook is for practitioners working in the social protection or fisheries sectors searching for innovative ways to promote sustainable fisheries and reduce human vulnerability. Amid a global decline...
This paper documents new facts on corporate taxation and the revenue potential of corporate minimum taxes, leveraging firm-level tax returns from 16 countries. First, effective tax rates follow a humped-shaped...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11090Date: March 24, 2025Author:
Bachas, Pierre ;
Brockmeyer, Anne ;
Dom, Roel ;
Semelet, Camille Marine
Drawing on global innovations in social registries, including those in the Sahel region, this presentation provides key considerations for the design and adaptation of social registries to enchance their...
Type: BriefReport#: 200011Date: March 24, 2025Author:
Alberro Encinas, Luis Inaki ;
Geschwind, Sebastian
This paper examines the data sources and methodologies used in economic research on corruption by analyzing 339 journal articles published in 2022 that include Journal of Economic Literature codes. The...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11091Date: March 24, 2025Author:
Anderson, James ;
Baidya, Akanksha
The singularity of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement resides in its comprehensiveness; the agreement considers most of the challenges associated with international trade and identifies provisions to...
Type: BriefReport#: 198042Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
National Trade Facilitation Committees (NTFC) are key to the two major international agreements defining the way forward for trade facilitation (TF) reforms in the region: the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 198041Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
The evidence so far is mixed as to whether educational entertainment (or “edutainment”) can create sustainable changes in financial attitudes and behaviors, and few studies have tested such hypotheses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11088Date: March 21, 2025Author:
Fowler,Ben ;
Heitzig, Christopher Joseph ;
Khan,Marrium ;
Pai, Renuka ;
Varma, Sakshi
The TFWA Program is developing a series of needs-based training courses for NTFC members in West Africa to foster NTFC capacities to coordinate and develop effective cross-border trade policies that address...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 198039Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
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