The report is structured as follows: chapter 1 sets the scene with a review of global trends in container port performance between 2020 and 2024. It draws comparisons with freight rate indices, congestion...
Type: ReportReport#: 204626Date: September 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report examines the growing threat of heat in cities across Latin America and
the Caribbean, including the outlook for the coming decades; the implications for
urban infrastructure and for human health,...
Type: ReportReport#: 204631Date: September 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
Prior to independence, Tajikistan’s role within the Soviet Union (1928–1991) was primarily that of an agrarian republic supplying cotton (often referred to as white gold), minerals, labor migrants, and...
Digital exclusion affects many adolescent girls aged 15 to 20 in schools across Northern Nigeria, with only 18 percent owning mobile phones and 43 percent having internet access according to a 2023 survey...
Type: BriefReport#: 204618Date: September 19, 2025Author:
Chang, Wei ;
Ebrahim, Menaal Fatima ;
Hailemicheal, Adiam Hagos ;
Musizvingoza, Ronald ;
Parajuli, Dilip ;
Rouanet, Lea Marie ;
Rufai, Mistura Adedoyin
Scaling up has become a rallying cry of social protection initiatives. The rationale for it is clear: with glaring coverage gaps globally and regionally, including nearly 2 billion people with no access...
Type: ReportReport#: 204093Date: September 18, 2025Author:
Gentilini, Ugo ;
Andrews, Colin ;
Evans, Martin ;
Tesliuc, Emil Daniel ;
Rodriguez Alas, Claudia P ;
Zafar, Usama ;
Martinez Cordova, Ana Sofia ;
Immervoll, Herwig ;
Ozer, Ceren ;
Bloom, Danielle Elena ;
Shaukat, Mahvish Ifrah ;
Nesbitt-Ahmed, Zahrah ;
Clarke, Daniel J. ;
Poole, Lydia ;
Talbot, Theodore ;
Lopez, Diego Rodrigo ;
Waddington, Andrew ;
Bird, Nicolo ;
Hanedar, Emine ;
Seetharaman, Jayatheerth ;
Shawarby, Sherine Al
The report is structured to highlight the multifaceted impacts of climate change, with a particular focus on women. Section 2 focuses on how climate change impacts the land and land users such as small-scale...
This report marks two major milestones: ten years of the Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative and five years of the Digital Government-to-Person Payments (G2Px) Initiative. Both programs began...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 204602Date: September 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
Rethinking Taxation for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological Advances argues for a shift beyond the traditional focus on collection efficiency...
Type: PublicationReport#: 204601Date: September 18, 2025Author:
Vuletin, Guillermo Javier
Relocating refugees to remote purpose-built settlements offers an alternative to hosting refugees in traditional camps or local communities. Yet, its consequences remain poorly understood. This brief shares...
Type: BriefReport#: 204593Date: September 17, 2025Author:
Rozo, Sandra ;
Urbina, María José ;
Wieser, Christina
This paper investigates the impact of higher education expansion on firm performance in developing countries. It focuses on the significant expansion of higher education in Brazil between 2000 and 2012,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11216Date: September 17, 2025Author:
Cirera, Xavier ;
Cruz, Marcio ;
Soares Martins Neto, Antonio
Several emerging and low-income countries have made good progress in formulating a DMS, and many regularly publish their DMS. However, they have been less successful in their implementation through an...
Type: ReportReport#: 204591Date: September 16, 2025Author:
World Bank ;
(IMF), International Monetary Fund
Climate change is already reshaping environmental and social landscapes across Thailand, exposing people and communities to compounding risks that threaten their stability and well-being. The increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 202430Date: September 16, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) program in Chad, part of the 2024-2028 National Strategy, aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations to shocks like climate crises and refugee influxes....
Type: BriefReport#: 201576Date: September 16, 2025Author:
World Bank
The use of Rated Criteria is the default approach for most Bank-funded international competitive procurements. Combined with price and life cycle cost formulas, Rated Criteria provide a truer assessment...
Type: ReportReport#: 204592Date: September 16, 2025Author:
World Bank
Low investments in human development (HD) are both a cause and a consequence of economic performance and income growth. Thriving populations in knowledge societies are skilled, mobile, healthy, and connected....
Type: ReportReport#: 204336Date: September 16, 2025Author:
Morgandi, Matteo ;
Koettl-Brodmann, Johannes ;
Gentilini, Ugo ;
Duran, Denizhan ;
Caillaud, Fadila ;
Saadah, Fadia M.
Public institutions are at the core of service delivery in the HD sectors of health, education, and social protection (SP), yet they underperform in providing effective coverage. In the MENA region, public...
Embracing resilience not as an add-on, but as a core pillar of its growth strategy, over the past decade, Tanzania has been demonstrating how resilience can be systematically embedded into national development....
Type: ReportReport#: 204309Date: September 16, 2025Author:
World Bank
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