This paper studies the effect of government issuance on firm issuance during banking crises using transaction-level bond and loan data from 66 countries between 1991 and 2017. Governments rarely issue...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11145Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Hernando Kaminsky, Pablo Daniel
This special focus chapter analyzes the effectiveness of fiscal policy in fostering economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. In doing so, the principal focus of the chapter is on fiscal...
This paper quantifies learning losses between 2020 and 2022 in the Dominican Republic, an upper-middle-income country. The paper uses data from a sample of ninth-grade students who benefited from computer...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11144Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Baron, Juan ;
Mola,José ;
Pineda, Astrid Camille ;
Polanco Santos, Paola Patricia
This How-To Note is designed to assist teams preparing World Bank Public Finance Reviews, as well as MTI country economists and staff in other GPs such as POV, GOV and HNP. While it is primarily intended...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202506Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Blecher, Evan Harold ;
Ozer, Ceren
In late 2022, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health implemented a pilot project to foster an AI-empowered and collaborative care model toward achieving universal access to radiograph services among the...
Type: ReportReport#: 202237Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Le, Sang Minh ;
Le, Nhi Quynh Thi
The World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development (eMBeD) unit and Health, Nutrition, and Population team joined forces with WHO to leverage behavioral science to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and...
Type: BriefReport#: 202260Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
The report begins by emphasizing the importance of measuring efficiency in
both economic and environmental dimensions and introduces the concept
of the economic-environmental production possibilities frontier....
Type: ReportReport#: 202259Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
This note presents a decade-long perspective on how competition advocacy has evolved into a key
instrument for shaping more dynamic markets. Drawing on insights from the ICN–World Bank Group
Competition...
Type: ReportReport#: 202269Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Miralles Murciego, Graciela ;
Falco, Guilherme de Aguiar ;
Ciborowska, Alex ;
Ruival, Ana
At the City Resilience Program (CRP), we empower cities to better understand and address disasters and climate risks, such as flooding, landslides, and extreme heat. We work with cities to identify practical...
Type: BriefReport#: 202249Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
Human Resources for Mental Health Service Delivery in Viet Nam provides an overview of the country’s current state of and challenges to mental health service delivery. The framework of the report is composed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 202236Date: June 12, 2025Author:
Le, Sang Minh ;
Hahn, Eric ;
Tran, Tu Anh ;
Mavituna, Selin ;
Ta, Tam Minh Thi
The report begins by emphasizing the importance of measuring efficiency in
both economic and environmental dimensions and introduces the concept
of the economic-environmental production possibilities frontier....
Type: ReportReport#: 202259Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank, in conjunction with the Ethiopia Federal Government Ministry of Revenues, organized a two-day conference on the role and status of digital technology in tax administration within East and...
Type: ReportReport#: 202231Date: June 12, 2025Author:
World Bank
Hazardous air pollution poses significant health and economic challenges for Nepal. Air pollution raises public health concerns in Nepal, particularly in the country’s two geographic hotspots: the Kathmandu...
Type: ReportReport#: 202059Date: June 11, 2025Author:
World Bank
Adoption of economic inclusion programs (bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets) is...
Type: BriefReport#: 202182Date: June 11, 2025Author:
Aroldi, Mara ;
Brubaker, Celeste ;
Osorio, Sebastian ;
Velarde, Juliana Outes
This paper estimates the effect on birth outcomes of a mother’s being treated by more-skilled versus less-skilled physicians, by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned newly graduated...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11143Date: June 11, 2025Author:
Posso,Christian ;
Tamayo,Jorge ;
Guarin Galeano, Arlen Yahir ;
Saravia,Estefania
Electricity services are essential for private sector development, as they support production, foster new business creation, and enhance competitiveness. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys,...
Type: BriefReport#: 202544Date: June 11, 2025Author:
Solis Sosa, Ben Omar Heli
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