Our analytical work creates a deeper understanding of how social issues affect development and growth in order to: Influence strategic priorities of the Bank (in SCDs, CCDRs, CPFs); nfluence national...
Type: ReportReport#: 200068Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The authorities have made significant progress on their comprehensive debt restructuring strategy. They completed the domestic debt restructuring last year and the restructuring of their Eurobonds in October....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 200308Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
When it comes to water, Kenya is a land of contrasts. Though it is home to some of the great water towers of East Africa, 90 percent of the country is either arid or semiarid. Rainfall patterns are highly...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 195248Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Security token offerings (STOs) recently have gained attention as an alternative mechanism for funding. By leveraging blockchain technology, STOs facilitate the issuance of tokens that are backed by tangible...
Type: ReportReport#: 195662Date: November 30, 2024Author:
Park, Jinhee ;
Lee, Soohyang ;
Kim, Yongdae
This work aims to provide high-level considerations for financial sector authorities implementing or looking to implement open finance. While design and implementation should consider the circumstances...
Type: ReportReport#: 195724Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Ngoc Hoi railway complex will become a key multimodal transportation hub in Hanoi. The concept master plan funded by the World Bank balances extensive railway functional requirements with the ambition...
Type: ReportReport#: 202123Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note provides guidance for policymakers, World Bank country teams, and development practitioners to enhance the quality, affordability, and sustainability
of home-based childcare (HBC) services in...
Type: BriefReport#: 197451Date: November 30, 2024Author:
Dina, Tanzina Quddus ;
Mbithi, Antony Mwangangi ;
Ekobono, Louis Marie Gael Bidzogo
Madagascar's human capital is highly vulnerable to climate change, with around 25% of the population living in areas prone to droughts, cyclones, or floods. These regions also suffer from low levels of...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194888Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report examines the current understanding of local government capacity
constraints and capacity-building approaches in the context of country-level implementation
of programs within the Cohesion Policy...
Type: ReportReport#: 195285Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper examines the dynamics of poverty in Bhutan between 2017 and 2022, utilizing cross-sectional data from the Bhutan Living Standards Surveys (BLSS). The paper uses a methodology proposed by Dang...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 195907Date: November 30, 2024Author:
Amendola, Nicola ;
Belotti, Federico ;
Etang Ndip, Alvin ;
Mancini, Giulia ;
Vecchi, Giovanni
This technical note aims to determine the costs and benefits involved with using various levels of nature-based solutions (NbS) to support mitigation and adaptation in the context of a changing climate...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 201193Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This joint World Bank and UNHCR report is developed in response to the United Nation (UN) omnibus resolution to coordinate an effort to measure the impact arising from hosting, protecting and assisting...
Type: ReportReport#: 203311Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objective of this technical note is to inform the governments of Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland,
and Romania about ongoing efforts and opportunities to strengthen AQM governance to
achieve better air quality...
Type: ReportReport#: 200159Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note (i) describes the current carbon credit market ecosystem; (ii) explains the key
vulnerabilities of carbon markets; and (ii) summarizes the key elements of financial market
integrity for carbon...
Type: ReportReport#: 200162Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This approach paper provides guidance to World Bank Education Task Team Leaders (TTLs), World Bank staff across sectors, and other stakeholders on how to ensure education sector operations become more...
Type: ReportReport#: 195305Date: November 30, 2024Author:
Alasuutari, Hanna Katriina ;
Niaz, Laraib ;
D’Angelo, Sophia
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is assessed to be in external and overall debt distress under the low-income countries’ debt sustainability framework (LIC-DSF). The Lao PDR is assessed to be...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 195402Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Ngoc Hoi railway complex will become a key multimodal transportation hub in Hanoi. The concept master plan funded by the World Bank balances extensive railway functional requirements with the ambition...
Type: ReportReport#: 202123Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
In July 2022, the Prime Minister of the Viet Nam approved the Action Program on Green Energy Transportation, Reduction of Carbon and Methane Emissions of the Transportation Industry’ through Decision 876/QD-TTg....
This cluster-randomized trial in Côte d’Ivoire examined multi-sectoral approaches to improving adolescent girls’ empowerment (AGE). Safe spaces offering life skills and sexual and reproductive health (SRH)...
The Country Opinion Survey in Morocco assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Morocco perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 197191Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
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