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
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
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
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region stands among the most vulnerable areas to the impacts of climate change. At the same time, with lax environmental regulations, this region’s integration into...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11161Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Hazem, Nada ;
Zaki, Chahir
In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, the Peruvian government implemented a policy recognizing the foreign medical qualifications of immigrant health care workers. This study analyzes the labor market performance...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11162Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Acosta, Pablo Ariel ;
Canavire Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier ;
Torres, Javier
Transport expenditures are a sizable share of many Brazilian city budgets. While capital expenditures in the transport sector often target road improvements, operating expenditures are increasingly focused...
Type: BriefReport#: 204020Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
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...
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#: 204603Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Bales, Sarah
This report presents a comprehensive analysis of India’s health labor markets
using data from the Periodic Labor Force Survey, the country’s largest labor dataset. It updates estimates of the size, composition,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 204868Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Araujo, Edson C. ;
Coelho, Bernardo D. P. ;
Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo ;
Manchanda, Navneet Kaur ;
McPake, Barbara ;
Mahal, Ajay ;
Sripada, Lakshmi Murthy ;
Santhanakrishnan, Deepak ;
Bhatnagar, Aarushi
The 2025 World Bank Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index is an inventory of the sustainability considerations used in World Bank lending and analytical services as well as its corporate practices. This...
Type: ReportReport#: 206310Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Myanmar firm monitoring survey (Round 19) was conducted in April 2025 encompassing a nationally representative sample of 500 firms. The survey spanned various areas of Myanmar, divided into five zones:...
Type: ReportReport#: 202704Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The report Exploring Enabling Energy Frameworks for Battery Electric Buses in Rwanda assesses the capacity of Rwanda’s energy sector to support the growing shift toward electric mobility, with a focus...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 203081Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Diehl, Adam Stone ;
Keskes, Tarek ;
Kishiue, Akiko ;
Nkurunziza, Alphonse ;
Singh, Arun ;
Umugwaneza, Clementine
The East-West Railway, also known as FICO-FIOL, is poised to significantly enhance grain transportation in Brazil, boosting global food availability and affordability while strengthening Brazil’s export...
This brief complements the findings of the 2018 Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic
report, using the latest available data to measure the size and identify
the drivers of gender gaps in the Ethiopian economy,...
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
This document outlines the current landscape, challenges, and opportunities for scaling up adaptive social protection (ASP) systems in the Sahel. It highlights the progress made by Sahelian countries since...
Type: BriefReport#: 203364Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Coudouel, Aline ;
Ocampo, Ana ;
Van Ufford, Paul
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