The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and quickly became a global...
Type: ReportReport#: 202279Date: June 13, 2025Author:
Amelia, Lia ;
Barasa, Arjuni Rahmi ;
Mayangsari, Aisyah Putri ;
Tamyis, Ana Rosidha
Judicial mapping reforms refers to an emerging stream of reform programs that attempts to improve the responsiveness of the justice system by adjusting the courts’ location, size, and jurisdiction to demographic...
The overall purpose of this study was to understand the effectiveness of efforts to curtail the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health measures on the supply and utilization of non-COVID...
Type: ReportReport#: 202278Date: June 13, 2025Author:
Bennett, Linda ;
Eka, Mitha ;
Marthias, Tiara ;
Strachan, Clare
The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in December 2019 and swiftly became a global crisis, heavily impacting Indonesia. The country reported its first COVID-19 case within eight weeks of the outbreak and experienced...
Type: BriefReport#: 202280Date: June 13, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report examines two pivotal dimensions of the competitive process: the dynamics of market competition in developing economies and the role of government interventions in strengthening market competition,...
The Tokyo Development Learning Center was established in 2004 under a partnership between the Government of Japan and the World Bank and serves as a center of excellence and a global knowledge hub for...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 202222Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past two decades, Mongolia has achieved significant economic growth, achieving upper-middle-income status in 2024. To continue this trajectory of growth and development, Mongolia needs to tackle...
Type: ReportReport#: 202233Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper studies the effect of government issuance on firm issuance during banking crises using transaction-level bond and loan data from 66 countries between 1991 and 2017. Governments rarely issue...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11145Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Hernando Kaminsky, Pablo Daniel
This special focus chapter analyzes the effectiveness of fiscal policy in fostering economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. In doing so, the principal focus of the chapter is on fiscal...
This paper quantifies learning losses between 2020 and 2022 in the Dominican Republic, an upper-middle-income country. The paper uses data from a sample of ninth-grade students who benefited from computer...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11144Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Baron, Juan ;
Mola, José ;
Pineda, Astrid Camille ;
Santos, Paola Patricia Polanco
This How-To Note is designed to assist teams preparing World Bank Public Finance Reviews, as well as MTI country economists and staff in other GPs such as POV, GOV and HNP. While it is primarily intended...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202506Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Blecher, Evan Harold ;
Ozer, Ceren
In late 2022, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health implemented a pilot project to foster an AI-empowered and collaborative care model toward achieving universal access to radiograph services among the...
Type: ReportReport#: 202237Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Le, Nhi Quynh Thi ;
Le, Sang Minh
The World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development (eMBeD) unit and Health, Nutrition, and Population team joined forces with WHO to leverage behavioral science to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and...
Type: BriefReport#: 202260Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
The report begins by emphasizing the importance of measuring efficiency in
both economic and environmental dimensions and introduces the concept
of the economic-environmental production possibilities frontier....
Type: ReportReport#: 202259Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
This note presents a decade-long perspective on how competition advocacy has evolved into a key
instrument for shaping more dynamic markets. Drawing on insights from the ICN–World Bank Group
Competition...
Type: ReportReport#: 202269Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Ciborowska, Alex ;
Falco, Guilherme de Aguiar ;
Miralles Murciego, Graciela ;
Ruival, Ana
At the City Resilience Program (CRP), we empower cities to better understand and address disasters and climate risks, such as flooding, landslides, and extreme heat. We work with cities to identify practical...
Type: BriefReport#: 202249Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
Human Resources for Mental Health Service Delivery in Viet Nam provides an overview of the country’s current state of and challenges to mental health service delivery. The framework of the report is composed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 202236Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Hahn, Eric ;
Le, Sang Minh ;
Mavituna, Selin ;
Ta, Tam Minh Thi ;
Tran, Tu Anh
The report begins by emphasizing the importance of measuring efficiency in
both economic and environmental dimensions and introduces the concept
of the economic-environmental production possibilities frontier....
Type: ReportReport#: 202259Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
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