The development objective of Tax Administration Reform Project for Uzbekistan is increasing the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the tax department and the level of voluntary compliance with...
Type: ReportReport#: 195560Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poverty is on a declining trend in Georgia, buoyed by recent robust economic growth and labor market improvements. Between 2016 and 2022, the poverty rate, measured by the international poverty line (below...
Type: BriefReport#: 196114Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Human capital – knowledge, skills, and good health – empowers people to achieve their potential and drives economic growth. This brief tracks progress by Argentina in building and using human capital....
Type: BriefReport#: 202570Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Sierra Leone’s public debt is sustainable, but risks of external and overall debt distress are high, unchanged from the previous DSA published in November 2023, but key indicators display modestly more...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 200336Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Although notable progress has been made in reducing poverty since 1994, poverty reduction came to a halt in 2011. The latest survey conducted in 2014-2015 shows that 55.5 percent of the population was...
Type: BriefReport#: 196321Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
About 1.2 billion people - one in five people in the world – are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 194400Date: October 31, 2024Author:
Li, Jia ;
Naikal, Esther G. ;
Kerr, Thomas Michael ;
Hallegatte, Stephane
The stagnation of poverty incidence (and the rise in inequality) occurred despite moderate economic growth, which averaged 3.5 percent over the past decade. This is partly due to barriers in the labor...
Type: BriefReport#: 196090Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
According to the fourth Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS-IV) (2022-23), Nepal has continued to experience a substantial reduction in poverty over the last decade. Living standards have improved across...
Type: BriefReport#: 196116Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The creation of more and better jobs has been a key driver of poverty and inequality reduction. However, while estimates on the number of jobs are available for most countries, comprehensive measures of...
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 195036Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper presents a review of global evidence and World Bank operational experience and distills lessons to support the empowerment of youth. The review of global literature reveals three fundamental...
Type: ReportReport#: 194273Date: October 31, 2024Author:
Sultan, Sonya M. ;
Espinoza, Sabina Anne ;
Hellali, Shughla
This is a subactivity of activity ‘Recommendations for the development of evidence-based jobseekers’ profiling system’. The particular aim of this report is to provide an approach to analyze the transitions...
Type: ReportReport#: 200582Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poverty has remained nearly stagnant in Niger, with a national poverty incidence of approximately 41 percent from 2018 to 2021. However, due to a high annual population growth rate of 3.7 percent, this...
Type: BriefReport#: 196119Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
A tighter labor market is expected to increase wages. While outmigration raises concerns about potential human capital losses, it may also encourage better utilization of domestic human capital. Addressing...
Type: BriefReport#: 196317Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poverty and inequality levels in Zambia are among the highest in the world. In 2022, 64.3 percent of the population - about 12.9 million individuals - was living on less than $2.15 a day, while the Gini...
Type: BriefReport#: 196320Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Improving Results in Secondary Education (IRISE) project was initiated by the Government of Liberia’s Ministry of Education (MOE) with financial and technical support from the World Bank and Mastercard...
Type: ReportReport#: 203387Date: October 31, 2024Author:
Sanchez, Alonso ;
Massaquoi, Binta Beatrice ;
Lusk-Stover, Oni
Montenegro is a small country in the Western Balkans that has significantly improved the living standards of its people in the past decade, but this has come with environmental and health impacts that...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194437Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objective of this study was to analyze the reasons for delays in procurement and contract execution of infrastructure projects. It analyzes available data from three different sources: Tender data...
Type: ReportReport#: 192190Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The latest household income and expenditure survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Tuvalu was conducted in 2015/16. However, the data presented in this brief refer to the previous HIES in 2010, as substantial...
Type: BriefReport#: 196311Date: October 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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