The Global Data Facility (GDF) is an innovative global funding mechanism that was established in October 2021 to strengthen and facilitate transformative and sustainable improvements in data systems and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 200176Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Samoa is assessed at moderate risk of external and overall debt distress based on a strong debt carrying capacity, an improvement from the high risk assessment in the previous DSA published in February...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 200171Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Digitalization accelerated by the pandemic has exponentially
increased the number and variability of alternative data
sources. The stay-at-home requirements during the pandemic
forced several business...
Type: ReportReport#: 197836Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document collection focuses on utilizing Earth observation data to enhance resilience in island communities. The training program emphasizes practical applications of Earth observation techniques...
Type: ReportReport#: 197571Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report explores the potential of maturing
technologies to address specific health
financing challenges in East and Southern
Africa. To the extent possible, it draws on
examples from countries in the...
Type: ReportReport#: 196995Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global goods trade accelerated in the five months from July through November amid strong US economic growth and a spurt in demand fueled by expectations of higher import tariffs. Trade in services, which...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 196933Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Partnership for Infrastructure Development Multi-Donor Trust Fund (PID MDTF) provides co-financing for World Bank operations in the West Bank and Gaza. (WB&G). During the reporting period (July 1,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 201029Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Ghana needs to contain budget rigidities and increase its room for fiscal maneuver, notably by pursuing steadfast implementation of the three year IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement, which...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Ghana’s development path, although registering past successes,
faces a series of current and future challenges. Ghana succeeded in
halving its poverty rate between 1991 and 2016, from 87 percent (US$3.65
per...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Strengthening public financial management (PFM) represents a critical aspect of the Government of Nepal’s (GON) strategy to improve governance, optimize the utilization of public resources, and promote...
Benin’s overall and external public debt remains at moderate risk of debt distress, unchanged from the previous Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA). All projected external debt burden indicators remain...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197680Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document consists of a summary of best practice standards for coal mine closure and aftercare, complemented by a practitioner’s guide. In combination, these two modules can be used by coal enterprises,...
Type: ReportReport#: 200331Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Stanley, Michael ;
Pohl, Wolfhart
Zambia’s economy is emerging from a debt crisis and has successfully negotiated a debt restructuring with creditors and an International Monetary Fund (IMF) program. This report highlights that, with reforms,...
Type: Country Private Sector DiagnosticsReport#: 196488Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Cordova, Ernesto Lopez ;
Mohammad, Bushra Ghulam ;
Chodavarapu, Soujanya Krishna ;
McKenna, Miles ;
Mekharat, Nisachol ;
Nuamah, Peter ;
Marron Ruiz, Santiago
This options paper aims to highlight select evidence-based and innovative options for potential programming that could unlock women’s and girls’ empowerment through the World Bank’s portfolio in Somalia....
Type: ReportReport#: 196338Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The scope for increasing public spending to meet development needs in many developing and developed countries is limited by low revenue and/or high debt. Increasing the efficiency of spending is therefore...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 200526Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Francois, John Nana Darko ;
Herrera, Santiago ;
Isaka, Hironobu ;
Mastruzzi, Massimo
Mauritania’s risk of external and overall public debt distress is assessed as “moderate”—unchanged from the previous DSA published in December 2023—with ‘some space’ to absorb shocks. All external and...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197906Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note is designed to be read alongside the companion policy note on electronic signatures,
which explains the role of PKI in implementing cryptographically secured digital
signatures within a national...
Type: PublicationReport#: 196018Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of how European Union (EU) member states monitor poverty and social exclusion at the subnational level, while also offering practical guidance to...
Type: ReportReport#: 200805Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet ;
Belghith, Nadia Belhaj Hassine ;
Robayo, Monica ;
Lucchetti, Leonardo Ramiro ;
Costa, Rita D. ;
Badiani-Magnusson, Reena
The State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF) is the World Bank’s largest multi-donor trust fund, providing catalytic financing to prevent conflict, support rapid crisis response, and build long-term resilience...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 202090Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Ghana’s domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) has suffered in recent years, with collected revenues as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) declining from 15.7 percent in 2017 to 13 percent in 2021. Revenue...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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