Sierra Leone’s creative economy is a significant yet underleveraged engine for diversification, youth employment, and cultural expression, contributing an estimated 4.5% of GDP and over 10% of formal employment....
Type: ReportReport#: 204120Date: August 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank in India newsletter for August 2025 includes the following headings: Cultivating Change in Agricultural Education : The Rise of Tech-Drivin Learning in India's Agriculture Universities;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 204119Date: August 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
This World Bank report highlights the benefits of investing in resilient urban sanitation systems for people, economic growth, and the planet. The report presents
a suite of policy, institutional, regulatory,...
Type: ReportReport#: 203930Date: August 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
This World Bank report highlights the benefits of investing in resilient urban sanitation systems for people, economic growth, and the planet. The report presents
a suite of policy, institutional, regulatory,...
Type: ReportReport#: 203930Date: August 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
FY25 Annual Report of the World Bank Group (WBG) Partnership Fund for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which responds to the growing demand for strategic initiatives that advance the achievement...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 204054Date: August 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
Zambia’s public debt is assessed as sustainable but remains at high risk of overall and external debt distress. The analysis is based on a full post-restructuring macro-framework, incorporating the treatment...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 204069Date: August 28, 2025Author:
World Bank
Côte d’Ivoire’s overall and external public debt remain at moderate risk of debt distress, similarly to the December 2024 Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA). The external debt service-to-revenue and to-export...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 204062Date: August 28, 2025Author:
World Bank
This note describes the Devolve-ICMS program, an innovative VAT cashback initiative aimed at refunding taxes to low-income households in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Using administrative records,...
Type: ReportReport#: 204089Date: August 28, 2025Author:
Bachas, Pierre ;
Flores, Tatiana ;
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel ;
Mantovani, Anderson Aparecido ;
Oliveira, Evandro Souza de ;
Padilha, Giovanni ;
Scot, Thiago
Togo’s economic trajectory in recent years has been shaped by both resilient performance and emerging vulnerabilities. The 2025 Economic Update underscores the urgency of restoring fiscal space and implementing...
Type: ReportReport#: 204091Date: August 28, 2025Author:
World Bank
This review provides a comprehensive and curated analysis of digital skills frameworks for teachers at the global, regional, and national levels. It outlines the competency domains and individual competencies...
Type: ReportReport#: 204059Date: August 28, 2025Author:
Chinen, Marjorie H
The Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2025 (RAP 2025) report presents a two-part review of the lending and non-lending support of the World Bank Group. Part 1 will focus on trends in project-...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 204531Date: August 28, 2025Author:
World Bank
Global goods trade expanded in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period of 2024 despite higher trade-policy uncertainty. Trade in services, which is reported with a lag, expanded in the January-to-May...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 204090Date: August 28, 2025Author:
World Bank
How do we accelerate responses to smartly support the poorest and most vulnerable in the Sahel? Climate funds can turn resources into resilience via Adaptive Social Protection (ASP): a combination of national...
Type: BriefReport#: 204056Date: August 27, 2025Author:
World Bank
Improvements on excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) are urgently needed in Mexico to reduce preventable premature deaths. In Mexico, 125,350 people lose their...
Type: BriefReport#: 201124Date: August 27, 2025Author:
Maldonado, Norman ;
Ozer, Ceren ;
Veillard, Jeremy
In the Mashreq countries of Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, women’s economic opportunities are significantly constrained, with female labor force participation rates among the lowest globally. Women face considerable...
Type: ReportReport#: 202693Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This overview lays out pathways to decarbonize the power and industrial sectors of the East Asia region, sectors that together constitute an overwhelming majority of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)...
This report is the first to systematically address the complex challenge of industrial decarbonization in East Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic economic areas. Drawing on original data and in-depth...
Type: ReportReport#: 204053Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report is the first to systematically address the complex challenge of industrial decarbonization in East Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic economic areas. Drawing on original data and in-depth...
Type: ReportReport#: 204053Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
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