This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Islamic Republic of Iran on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity...
Type: BriefReport#: 173401Date: October 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
Gross domestic product (GDP) is widely recognized as an insufficient measure of economic progress and national success. Since GDP is nearly universally available and comparable across countries, it is...
Type: ReportReport#: 193950Date: October 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
In this report, we update and extend the methodology
developed for the previous CWON 2021 report to
assess the economic value of non-wood ecosystem
services from forests (Siikamäki et al. 2021). Like
the...
Type: ReportReport#: 194078 Date: October 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
In this study, we applied a methodological approach
to assess the value of shoreline protection services
provided by mangroves. Our approach involved
using global flood risk models to simulate the impact
of...
Type: ReportReport#: 194077Date: October 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Building on the World Bank’s Blue Economy approach, which calls for the sustainable and integrated development of economic sectors in a healthy ocean, this report presents lessons learned from expanding...
Type: ReportReport#: 193740Date: October 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Aquaculture has not yet been included in the
renewable natural capital accounts of the World
Bank’s The Changing Wealth of Nations (CWON).
This study explored the feasibility of including the
wealth generated...
Type: ReportReport#: 194076Date: October 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objective of this report is to assess the feasibility of valuing water as a natural capital asset in at least 150 countries for possible inclusion in CWON. Water represents a portfolio of assets, including...
Type: ReportReport#: 194072Date: October 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is close to winning the battle on inflation and turning the corner on the macroeconomic dislocations wrought by the pandemic. Monetary authorities in the region have...
Type: ReportReport#: 194071Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
The effective management of traffic speeds is one of the most complex road safety issues. Based on the latest research in the field, this guide offers practical information and recommendations for managing...
Type: ReportReport#: 188495Date: October 10, 2024Author:
Blair Matthew Turner ;
Eva-Maria Eichinger-Vill ;
Alina F. Burlacu ;
El-Samra, Siba ;
Adriazola-Steil, Claudia
Energy is an essential production input for firms. Governments around the world have been subsidizing the production and consumption of energy for decades. By reforming energy subsidies, governments can...
This paper set out the context, objective, structure, governance, and operating model for the establishment of a Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Ukraine. In line with the FIF Directive, it seeks...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193894Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
Setting up a Port Community System (PCS) has the potential to transform the effectiveness and efficiency of a port. It can cut costs, increase efficiency, and close the digital divide between large and...
Type: ReportReport#: 194057Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Brazil assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Brazil perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 194562Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, learning poverty, defined as the share of children younger than 10 years of age who have not achieved minimum reading proficiency, as adjusted by the proportion of children...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 192158Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objective of this report is to provide estimates
of global carbon storage in mangrove ecosystems
by developing a dataset of mangrove biomass and
soil carbon stocks at a country level across six years
between...
Type: ReportReport#: 194073Date: October 10, 2024Author:
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#: 193955Date: October 10, 2024Author:
Shruti Lakhtakia ;
Udahiruni Atapattu ;
Richard Walker
Gross domestic product (GDP) is widely recognized as an insufficient measure of economic progress and national success. Since GDP is nearly universally available and comparable across countries, it is...
Type: ReportReport#: 193950Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
How can we track the sustainability of economic progress and measure the changing wealth of nations? Until now, gross domestic product (GDP) has been the headline indicator for tracking economic progress....
Type: ReportReport#: 194059Date: October 10, 2024Author:
World Bank
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