The South Asian Economics Students’ Meet (SAESM) started in 2004 as a regional forum to bring together undergraduate economics students from various South Asian nations. SAESM as a platform continues to...
Type: ReportReport#: 203939Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Gabon stands at a critical juncture. The 2025 presidential election ushered in an administration committed to forging a new social contract that responds to long-standing public demands for greater equity,...
Type: ReportReport#: 203935Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Botea, Ioana Alexandra ;
Gordina, Alexandra ;
Kroll, Guillaume
The Country Opinion Survey in Eswatini assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Eswatini perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 204407Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
After three difficult years, a new phase of mining-led growth that began in late 2022 has helped Mongolia emerge from a period of acute macroeconomic imbalances. Despite improvements in fiscal and macroeconomic...
Type: ReportReport#: 203564Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Blackman, Andrew ;
Diaz Sanchez, Jose Luis ;
Dondog, Badamchimeg
The increasing need for digital skills is driving countries worldwide to invest heavily in digital skills education, but the most effective practices for developing these skills remain unclear. This paper...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 203089Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Freeman, Barbara ;
Gikunda, Agatha Mutheu ;
Lee, Changha ;
Martinez, Mabel
This study explores the link between digital skills, innovation, and economic transformation in the context of Africa, focusing on the role and potential contribution of higher education institutions in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 203093Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Amegah, Alice ;
Salmi, Jamil ;
Shinde, Aarya Rajendra
The residential sector is one of the main consumers of energy in Nepal, with cooking being a major end-use. Unprocessed solid biomass fuels are the primary cooking fuels, with approximately 60% of households...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11157Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Malla, Sunil ;
Timilsina, Govinda R. ;
Heger, Martin
This study examines the effectiveness and challenges of Tajikistan's skills development system and skilling opportunities for migrants, with the goal of providing actionable recommendations. As Tajikistan...
This regional synthesis report draws on three country studies from the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to assess the skills development systems for migration and TVET systems in Central Asia,...
This issue emphasizes the crucial role industry plays in enhancing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and skills development systems. Explore this edition to learn how various forms...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 202733Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Comyn, Paul ;
Liang, Xiaoyan
The key messages from this presentation are the following - 1. Maiduguri, as Borno’s capital, is key to the state’s long-term development. Maiduguri is the center of trade for the region. The city hosts...
Type: ReportReport#: 202734Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The overall and external debt of the Republic of Congo are classified as in distress, reflecting the ongoing restructuring and audit of domestic arrears, as well as the recurrent accumulation of temporary...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 202844Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 202739Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report examines household out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending in Viet Nam from 2010 to 2022. Despite high health insurance coverage (91percent in 2022) and reduced catastrophic health expenditure,...
Type: ReportReport#: 204758Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Bales, Sarah
The World Bank collects phone surveys from 1,500 respondents every month in partnership with Vanuatu Bureau of Statistics and Digicel Vanuatu. The previous report summarized the key findings from the high...
Type: ReportReport#: 204814Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report examines the resilience of women nanoentrepreneurs in Mindanao and explores the impact of access to finance and digital technologies on their business
sustainability. Utilizing data from the...
Type: ReportReport#: 204869Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank ;
Ateneo Center for Social Entrepreneurship (ACSEnt) ;
(SEDPI), Social Enterprise Development Partnerships Inc.
This paper gathers lessons from major development investments and reviews the broader evidence base on the inclusion of refugees and their host communities in national social protection programs in low-...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 203254Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Acosta, Pablo ;
Lebow, Jeremy ;
Manfredini Bohm, Alfredo ;
Migliaccio, Emanuela
Good Neighbours 2: Connecting for an Empowered South Asia, successor to Good Neighbours 1 report, offers a deeply personal lens through which to understand regionalism in practice. The ten case studies...
The global challenge of water scarcity is intensified by factors such as population growth, rainfall variability, and water stress, with climate change further affecting the water cycle and impacting food,...
Type: ReportReport#: 203363Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
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