Well-functioning capital markets can foster economic growth and allocate resources efficiently. Firms can tap into a broader funding base by issuing debt and equity in capital markets, often at cheaper...
Type: PublicationReport#: 200178Date: April 1, 2025Author:
Cesaire Assah Meh ;
Schmukler, Sergio L.
This paper uses household survey data from 27 countries to assess sex-differentiated access to social protection programs and their impact on mitigating gender gaps in the labor market. The analysis includes...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 200228Date: April 1, 2025Author:
Claudia P. Rodriguez Alas ;
Ana Veronica Lopez ;
Ingrid Mujica
This report distils experiences from established offshore wind markets into key success factors to help emerging markets build successful offshore wind sectors. It is designed to share international good...
Type: ReportReport#: 200279Date: April 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Growth prospects for South Asia have dimmed. The global economic environment has become more challenging and is a source of heightened downside risks. After a decade of repeated disruptions, South Asia’s...
Type: PublicationReport#: 200815Date: April 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change, with rural women dis- proportionately affected due to pre-existing gender inequalities that both increase their need for adaptation and constrain...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11095Date: April 1, 2025Author:
Clara Delavallade ;
Melanie Colette Jacqueline Gittard ;
Julia Vaillant
Well-functioning capital markets can foster economic growth and allocate resources efficiently. Firms can tap into a broader funding base by issuing debt and equity in capital markets, often at cheaper...
Type: PublicationReport#: 200178Date: April 1, 2025Author:
Cesaire Assah Meh ;
Schmukler, Sergio L.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is estimated to have grown at a modest rate of 1.9 percent in 2024, against a backdrop of increased global uncertainty, particularly in trade policy. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: 200814Date: April 1, 2025Author:
Roberta V. Gatti ;
Harun Onder ;
Asif M Islam ;
Jesica Torres Coronado ;
Gianluca Mele ;
Federico Roberto Bennett ;
Sumin Chun ;
Rana Lotfi ;
Ilias Suvanov
Amid global economic uncertainty and limited fiscal space in the region, Sub-Saharan Africa's economic activity is showing some resilience, with projected growth gradually increasing over the 2025-2027...
Type: PublicationReport#: 200813Date: April 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Established in 2004 as a partnership between the Government of Japan and the World Bank, the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) was conceived as a distance learning center. Today, it has transformed...
Type: BriefReport#: 200189Date: April 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Nepal Development Update is produced twice a year to report on key economic developments that occurred during the year, placing them in a longer-term and global perspective. The Update is intended...
Zambia aspires to be a prosperous middle-income country by 2030. To that end, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) has set out an aggressive economic diversification and industrialization agenda...
Type: ReportReport#: 200804Date: April 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Securing a contract financed by the World Bank or the World Bank Group (WBG) can be a great way to expand your business, build international experience, and positively contribute to global development...
Type: ReportReport#: 200979Date: April 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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