This country profile analyzes gender gaps in the disaster risk management (DRM) agenda in Jamaica that influence the exposure and vulnerability, preparedness, and coping capacity of different populations....
Type: ReportReport#: 194843Date: December 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Armenia has made significant progress in its development journey by improving its macro-fiscal management towards becoming an upper-middle income country in 2018. With its prudent and disciplined macro-fiscal...
Type: ReportReport#: 195350Date: December 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Business training has long been a staple of development policy, with annual expenditures exceeding US$ 1 billion in low- and middle-income countries. The vast majority of training is delivered in person,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10992Date: December 4, 2024Author:
Cassidy, Rachel ;
Ebrahim, Menaal Fatima ;
Ubfal, Diego Javier
This paper examines the medium-term effects of policy- driven income shocks on human capital accumulation in low-income environments. Using administrative data on test scores of the universe of primary...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10993Date: December 4, 2024Author:
Dabalen, Andrew L. ;
Mensah, Justice Tei ;
Nsabimana,Aimable
Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) allows public sector organizations to procure goods and services while maximizing value for money, benefiting society and the economy, and minimizing environmental...
Type: ReportReport#: 195306Date: December 3, 2024Author:
Kumar, A K Kalesh ;
Sherman, Mariam J. ;
Tahboub, Hiba ;
Berroa, Diomedes ;
Salim, Maryam ;
Meyer, Tania
Tech-EnableD Disability Inclusive Education (TEDDIE) is an instrument comprising a costing tool and an implementation toolkit to help policymakers estimate the cost of procuring, utilizing, and maintaining...
Type: ReportReport#: 187598Date: December 3, 2024Author:
Alasuutari, Hanna Katriina ;
Barron Rodriguez, Maria Rebeca ;
Cobo Romani, Juan Cristobal ;
D Angelo, Sophia Marie ;
Lee, Changha ;
Pan, Yilin
Tech-EnableD Disability Inclusive Education (TEDDIE) is an instrument comprising a costing tool and an implementation toolkit to help policy makers estimate the cost of procuring, utilizing, and maintaining...
Type: BriefReport#: 187598Date: December 3, 2024Author:
Alasuutari, Hanna Katriina ;
Barron Rodriguez, Maria Rebeca ;
Cobo Romani, Juan Cristobal ;
D Angelo, Sophia Marie ;
Lee, Changha ;
Pan, Yilin
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) sets forth the World Bank Group (WBG) strategy for supporting Namibia’s goals to reduce poverty and inequality as outlined in its national development plans. Although...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: CPF0000008Date: December 3, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study documents short-term economic mobility in Malaysia over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, at the population level and for various subgroups. The findings show broad and steady...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10991Date: December 3, 2024Author:
Rongen,Gerton ;
Lanjouw,Peter
This report focuses on the roots of structural inequality that are at the heart of
Africa’s slow progress in reducing extreme poverty. Rather than resulting from
differences in talent or effort, structural...
Type: ReportReport#: 195284Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Namibia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better
understanding how stakeholders in Namibia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with
systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 195286Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic growth is often associated with welfare gains through job creation. However, the number and quality of new job opportunities created in a growing economy vary across countries and sectors, due...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10989Date: December 2, 2024Author:
Burgi,Constantin ;
Hovhannisyan, Shoghik ;
Velez, Camilo Mondragon
Sao Tome and Príncipe is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) with a fragile economy, enduring double-insularity, and high susceptibility to external shocks. It is especially vulnerable to the effects...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 201795Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report focuses on the roots of structural inequality that are at the heart of
Africa’s slow progress in reducing extreme poverty. Rather than resulting from
differences in talent or effort, structural...
Type: ReportReport#: 195284Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Thailand, like many countries in the region, faces a skills crisis, with a very large proportion of youth and adults whose foundational skills are below threshold levels, meaning they cannot perform basic...
Type: ReportReport#: 187719Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Understanding global food production and productivity patterns is crucial for policy and in-vestment decisions aimed at addressing poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. This pa-per develops comprehensive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10990Date: December 2, 2024Author:
Baffes, John ;
Etienne,Xiaoli
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