Economic growth in Uganda remains strong. Real GDP growth accelerated from 6.1 percent in 9M-FY24 to an estimated 6.8 percent in 9M-FY25. This robust performance was mainly driven on the supply side by...
Type: ReportReport#: 204790Date: September 26, 2025Author:
Refaqat, Saadia ;
Namunane, Silver ;
Samula, Liz Mukasa ;
Palombo, Edoardo ;
Magezi Ndamira, Barbara Kasura ;
Fritz, Verena Maria ;
Lukwago, Daniel
This study aims to answer the question: “How does inclusive childcare access affect the workforce participation of mothers with children with disabilities?” Despite the World Bank’s substantial investments...
Type: ReportReport#: 204808Date: September 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper explores whether satellite imagery can be used to derive a measure to estimate conflict-induced damage to agricultural production and compare the results to those obtained using media-based...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11221Date: September 25, 2025Author:
Deininger, Klaus W. ;
Ali, Daniel Ayalew ;
Nataliia, Kussul ;
Lemoine, Guido ;
Shelestov, Andrii ;
Shumilo, Leonid
Thailand’s economic momentum softened in Q2 2025 with growth lagging behind regional peers due to weak private consumption and tourism. High-frequency data confirmed this softening trend, with a slowdown...
Type: BriefReport#: 204751Date: September 25, 2025Author:
Puthong, Warunthorn Milk
In collaboration with Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency, the World Bank is piloting a Responsible Data Sharing Framework (RDSF) for the distributed renewable energy sector. The framework was developed...
Type: BriefReport#: 204721Date: September 25, 2025Author:
Shrestha, Ashish ;
Pedersen, Anders ;
Janardhanan, Neelima ;
Hanley, Mollie
The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in China perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 204753Date: September 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
Vietnam has prioritized semiconductors as one of ten critical technologies and set explicit goals of becoming a global semiconductor talent hub by 2030, moving up the value chain toward higher value-added...
Type: ReportReport#: 203158Date: September 25, 2025Author:
Tran, Nguyet Anh ;
Bentil, Ekua Nuama ;
Dao, Trang Hong ;
Vo, Dung Kieu ;
Tran, Huong Thi Lan ;
Bergman, Johan Bjurman ;
Nguyen, Mike ;
Dang, Vinh Quang ;
Wei, Gu-Yeon ;
Case, Suzanne ;
Park, Joshua
The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in China perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 204753Date: September 25, 2025Author:
qixue
The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in China perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 204753Date: September 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
The standard global poverty estimation method - relying on household survey data and consumer price index (CPI) - based inflation - suggests a sharp decline in Madagascar’s international poverty rate (measured...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 204722Date: September 25, 2025Author:
Yoshida, Nobuo ;
Mulangu, Francis Muamba ;
Oviedo, Ana Maria ;
Wu, Haoyu ;
Sho, Tomoyuki ;
Aron, Danielle Victoria ;
Nsababera, Olive Umuhire
The Women’s Economic Empowerment in Bangladesh: An Evidence-Guided Toolkit for More Inclusive Policies report provides an examination of gender disparities in economic empowerment in Bangladesh. It aims...
Type: ReportReport#: 204690Date: September 25, 2025Author:
Vyborny, Katherine Helen Anne ;
Aggarwal, Pulkit ;
Amaral, Sofia ;
Gaddis, Isis ;
Manzur, Shirleen ;
Pereira, Isabela Salgado-Silva ;
Swanson, Kendal Marie ;
Tran, Viet
The rapid expansion of social pensions in emerging economies over recent decades has been one of the defining features of global social assistance policy. This paper aims to assess the case for a significant...
Type: ReportReport#: 204723Date: September 25, 2025Author:
O'Keefe, Philip ;
Rongen, Gerton
Studies indicate that climate change increased the accumulated rainfall volume by 6 percent to 9 percent in extreme events in Rio Grande do Sul in 2024. There has been increased frequency and intensity...
Type: BriefReport#: 204694Date: September 24, 2025Author:
Teixeira, Raquel
The Amazonia Viva GCF Program is a transformative initiative aimed at safeguarding the ecological and social integrity of the Amazon biome. Spanning seven countries—Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,...
Type: ReportReport#: 204720Date: September 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2023, the Poverty Global Department launched an initiative to take stock of this
growing body of knowledge. What did we know about which real-time monitoring (RTM) approaches worked best in different...
Type: ReportReport#: 204710Date: September 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
African migration is a story of movement spurred by the pursuit of economic opportunities near and far, the quest for safety and security, the urgent need to escape environmental hardships, and the pull...
This paper includes the following headings: flood damage in recent years; architectural adaptation to flood hazards and the shift in flood-control policy; flood control measures for school facilities;...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 204689Date: September 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
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