East Asia and the Pacific is one of the most dynamic regions in the world with growth of 5.0 percent in 2024. China’s economy expanded by 5.0 percent, the rest of the region by 4.9 percent, and the Pacific...
Type: ReportReport#: 201941Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
PULSAR is a regional and country-level program that supports the development of public sector accounting and financial reporting frameworks in line with international standards and good practices. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 202173Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty incidence in Mali has remained high and stable, averaging around 45 percent since 2011. The ongoing conflict has been devastating, resulting in significant loss of life and mass displacement. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 200688Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
From 2017 to 2019, robust economic growth significantly reduced poverty rates: consumption-based poverty, defined as living on less than $6.85 PPP per day, decreased from 34.2 percent in 2017 to an estimated...
Type: BriefReport#: 200759Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are increasingly pursuing public health insurance (HI) as an integral part of their strategy to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). Yet...
This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the
forthcoming World Bank 2025 Mongolia Public Finance Review. It is intended for policymakers and practitioners...
Type: ReportReport#: 201855Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This study builds on the analysis on fiscal space for health in Uganda that was conducted by
the World Bank in 2010. The previous study by Okwero et al. (2010) showed that there was low
and inefficient...
Type: ReportReport#: 201606Date: April 30, 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 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank commits to removing barriers to inclusive education so that the right to education may be upheld for all children and youth, including learners from poorer households and/or rural and...
Type: BriefReport#: 201067Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The definition of standards related to Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) instruments aims to provide teams with a common understanding of what can make up an ASP system in Sahel countries. These standards...
Type: ReportReport#: 201644Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Public Sector Accounting and Reporting (PULSAR) Program, launched in 2017, is a regional and country level program in twelve beneficiary countries of Europe and Central Asia. Its objective is to support...
Type: ReportReport#: 202175Date: April 30, 2025Author:
Alaverdyan, Karen ;
Aleksanyan, Raffi ;
Azizyan, Arusyak ;
Gourfinkel, Dmitri ;
Kocharyan, Gor ;
Laski, Julian ;
Mamikonyan, Lilit ;
Rezk, Jose Simon ;
Sergeyan, Garik
The latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Solomon Islands was conducted in 2012-2013. Frequent natural disasters threaten people’s livelihoods and well-being...
Type: BriefReport#: 200731Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Financial resources lost to corruption are estimated at about 5 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to United Nations estimates. Recovering even a fraction of those assets could provide...
The guide is structured into three main sections: guidance notes. This section acts as a primer, offering clear, concise, and practical information on policy and process issues related to refugee inclusion....
Public investment has played, and will continue to play, a crucial role in Viet Nam’s economic and social development. The Government of Vietnam has made major progress in the past decades in improving...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 202397Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Global goods trade continued to expand rapidly from October 2024 through February 2025, driven by a surge in demand fueled by expectations of higher import restrictions in the US. Trade in services, which...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 201108Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report aims to enhance the understanding of the priorities, needs, and solutions for improving air quality (AQ) in Central Asia (CA) through local action and regional collaboration. It focuses on...
Type: ReportReport#: 201071Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The report reviews the impact of the green transition on employment in Kosovo and the eƯects it will have on the workforce and the skills base required in the future. Globally, as in Kosovo, the structural...
Type: ReportReport#: 202330Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Mali’s risk of external and overall debt distress is assessed to be moderate, although downside risks have increased since the 2023 debt sustainability analysis (DSA). For external debt, no breaches occur...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 202503Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Technical Note, prepared as part of the FSAP development module assessment conducted by the World Bank in October 2024, examines key financial consumer protection issues in the Eswatini financial...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 204047Date: April 30, 2025Author:
Boeddu, Gian ;
De Mesquita Gomes, Sergio Jose
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