Thailand's economic activity showed mixed signals in February. A sharp contraction in private investment offset steady consumption and strong exports due to rising uncertainty. Goods exports remained a...
Type: BriefReport#: 200700Date: April 22, 2025Author:
Warunthorn Milk Puthong
The Caribbean region faces a growing youth employment challenge, as outdated infrastructure and limited digital skills continue to constrain economic opportunities and resilience. For much of the last...
Type: BriefReport#: 200704Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and updates...
Type: ReportReport#: 200723Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
Economic growth and job creation remain key challenges for Jordan, where the economy has only grown by an annual average of 2.5 percent over the past decade. Unemployment is persistently high (22.3 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 200712Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
Indigenous Peoples and their lands play a vital role in protecting forests and biomes from deforestation, conserving biodiversity, and regulating climate balance. However, they face centuries of marginalization,...
Type: ReportReport#: 200257Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
The tourism and hospitality sector are a key driver of Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, and a major source of foreign reserves and jobs: the sector has the potential to add 168 billion dollars in...
Type: BriefReport#: 200702Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
Kenya faces a growing youth employment challenge, with nearly 80 percent of its population under 35 working in informal, low-quality jobs that offer little security or opportunity for advancement. About...
Type: BriefReport#: 200769Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
While the Philippines has been one of the most dynamic economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, with gross national income (GNI) per capita more than tripling, and poverty declining sharply...
Type: BriefReport#: 200706Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
Brazil has committed to a 43 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2005 and 2030 - mainly through increasing the share of sustainable biofuels and clean energy in the energy mix,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200711Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is set to potentially transform the labor market, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Studies about its possible impacts have generally focused on...
Type: BriefReport#: 200708Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
From 2001 to 2012, Indonesia enjoyed strong economic growth, averaging 5.6 percent per annum, while the poverty rate halved to 11 percent. The employment rate reached a two-decade record high in 2019,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200709Date: April 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
After growing at 4.7 percent in 2023, real GDP growth is estimated to have reached
5.5 percent in 2024. This was primarily driven by a strong performance in the tourism
sector, which is estimated to have...
Type: ReportReport#: 200698Date: April 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Kazakhstan holds a strategic position between China, Europe, and the Middle East, but has historically been underutilized as an economic and transit bridge because of poor connectivity across the country....
Type: BriefReport#: 200593Date: April 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Guatemala’s agrifood sector plays a significant role in Guatemala’s economy, but
faces a series of challenges that impact its performance. The agriculture sector accounts for
10.2% of Guatemala’s economic...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 200697Date: April 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh’s informal sector accounts for up to 85 percent of employment and is characterized by low productivity and low wages. Youth in particular face significant challenges to accessing economic opportunity,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200591Date: April 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper presents several key messages on fiscal consolidation. The paper begins by discussing the motivations, timing, design, and political economy of fiscal consolidation, as well as its macroeconomic...
Type: ReportReport#: 192072Date: April 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
Most power utilities in West Africa are not ?nancially sustainable. Several interrelated factors cause these performance issues, but dependence on liquid fuels, poor governance, insufficient use of information...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 200234Date: April 18, 2025Author:
Anshul Rana ;
Jose Andres Detomasi ;
Isabelle Bui ;
Jingyi Wu
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