Husbands are often key stakeholders and influential in women’s enterprise performance. Intrahousehold constraints and relational dynamics may contribute to a gender gap in entrepreneurship. This mixed-methods...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11151Date: June 24, 2025Author:
Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia ;
Hailemicheal, Adiam Hagos ;
Ochem, Dumebi Uzoabaka ;
Papineni, Sreelakshmi
This Country Program Evaluation assesses the performance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Georgia in achieving the country’s development objectives. In the decade leading up to the...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 202545Date: June 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
Buildings in Pakistan account for over 43.7 percent of the country’s total energy use and represent a significant opportunity for energy efficiency and conservation. The high energy consumption in buildings...
Type: ReportReport#: 202537Date: June 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report presents the findings from the first of two activities conducted under the World Bank’s Advisory Services and Analytics project, with the primary aim of gaining insights into the increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 202741Date: June 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
This policy brief uses data from those efforts to document the role social norms play to support (or hinder) female labor force participation in a sample of MENA countries. Data was collected in Egypt,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202475Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
The report focuses on the following specific research questions: 1. What do historical trends tell us about the future of aquaculture in providing aquatic or blue foods? 2. What role do finance and investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 202487Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Solomon Islands government plays key roles in the health sector, as a funder,
regulator, and provider of nearly all health services. Health services are funded, managed,
and delivered by the Ministry...
Type: ReportReport#: 202492Date: June 23, 2025Author:
Mike, Michael ;
Irava, Wayne Jeremy ;
A, Maude Ruest ;
Rummery, Richie
The World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) is an index that reflects the share of households in a country experiencing deprivations across three key dimensions of well-being: monetary poverty,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202501Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report presents the evaluation results of the pilot intervention, which aimed to enhance the socioeconomic inclusion of marginalized Roma households in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia. The pilot targeted...
Type: ReportReport#: 202486Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
The project shall continue support for the Nigerian Government’s energy sector reform
effort and facilitate the sector’s smooth transition to the new market and institutional structure.
Furthermore, the...
Type: Memorandum ＆ Recommendation of the PresidentReport#: 202589Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
Pakistan’s overall national health budget had a high rate of execution from 2016 to 2019, averaging 95 percent. However, execution rates between provinces as well as between categories of spending varied...
Type: ReportReport#: 202494Date: June 23, 2025Author:
Hadi, Qurat ul Ain ;
Verhaghe, Johan ;
Yunus, Hammad
This report addresses the escalating global water crisis characterized by continental drying – the long-term decline in freshwater availability across large landmasses, highlighting trends, causes and...
Type: ReportReport#: 202473Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) is an index that reflects the share of households in a country experiencing deprivations across three key dimensions of well-being: monetary poverty,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202500Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) is an index that reflects the share of households in a country experiencing deprivations across three key dimensions of well-being: monetary poverty,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202500Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
Extreme heat is becoming one of the most lethal and underestimated threats to cities in Europe and Central Asia, exacerbating health risks, undermining productivity, and pushing infrastructure to its limits....
Type: ReportReport#: 202502Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
Ricardo and Africa E-Mobility Alliance (AfEMA) were commissioned by the World Bank, ESMAP, GFDT and the Government of Malawi to produce a comprehensive study to foster e-mobility in Malawi. This study...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202460Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report has been developed under а Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) agreement between the Government of Greece and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) for...
Type: ReportReport#: 202493Date: June 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
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