How do we accelerate responses to smartly support the poorest and most vulnerable in the Sahel? Climate funds can turn resources into resilience via Adaptive Social Protection (ASP): a combination of national...
Type: BriefReport#: 204056Date: August 27, 2025Author:
World Bank
Improvements on excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) are urgently needed in Mexico to reduce preventable premature deaths. In Mexico, 125,350 people lose their...
Type: BriefReport#: 201124Date: August 27, 2025Author:
Maldonado, Norman ;
Ozer, Ceren ;
Veillard, Jeremy
In the Mashreq countries of Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, women’s economic opportunities are significantly constrained, with female labor force participation rates among the lowest globally. Women face considerable...
Type: ReportReport#: 202693Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This overview lays out pathways to decarbonize the power and industrial sectors of the East Asia region, sectors that together constitute an overwhelming majority of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)...
This report is the first to systematically address the complex challenge of industrial decarbonization in East Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic economic areas. Drawing on original data and in-depth...
Type: ReportReport#: 204053Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report is the first to systematically address the complex challenge of industrial decarbonization in East Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic economic areas. Drawing on original data and in-depth...
Type: ReportReport#: 204053Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This study evaluates injuries, disabilities, deaths, and associated costs resulting from traffic crashes in Brazil, while suggesting policies to reduce long-term disability and societal impact. In addition...
Type: ReportReport#: 204024Date: August 26, 2025Author:
Bellas Lamas, Carlos ;
Pereira Caldeira, Gabriel ;
Rodrigues Obelheiro, Marta ;
Bastos, Jorge Tiago
Health budget allocation and execution are critical to ensuring that health systems function effectively, equitably, and sustainably. The importance of budget execution in health extends far beyond mere...
Type: ReportReport#: 203487Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report is the first to systematically address the complex challenge of industrial decarbonization in East Asia, one of the world’s most dynamic economic areas. Drawing on original data and in-depth...
Type: ReportReport#: 204053Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
On August 26, 2025, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number seven hundred and twelve. It was resolved that, effective July 1, 2025,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 204332Date: August 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
Climate shocks increase poverty and reduce development gains and productive investments, in part because vulnerable households have poor financial resilience, are often not covered by public safety nets,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 204055Date: August 26, 2025Author:
Calcutt, Evie ;
Hill, Ruth ;
Vinha, Katja Pauliina
This report provides an analysis of the seaweed sector in Tanzania, examining its historical evolution, current dynamics, and vast potential to drive sustainable economic growth, climate resilience, and...
Type: ReportReport#: 203973Date: August 25, 2025Author:
Gupta, Harshit Kumar ;
Msuya, Flower E.
Girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa face multiple, inter-related challenges. In Zimbabwe, the odds are stacked against too many girls from an early age. The survey explores the aspirations and...
Type: BriefReport#: 203288Date: August 25, 2025Author:
Sahay, Abhilasha ;
Troiano, Sara ;
Papineni, Sreelakshmi
This demand-and-supply assessment was commissioned by the World Bank as part of the Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises (GROW) project (P176747), implemented by Uganda’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 204013Date: August 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is at a moderate risk of external and overall debt distress, with limited space to absorb shocks. The change of risk from low in the June 2024 assessment to moderate is largely attributed to...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 203963Date: August 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report presents the findings from five Tax Compliance Cost Surveys (TCCS) financed by the World Bank undertaken between 2012 and 2023, the most recent being undertaken from February to August 2024....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 203954Date: August 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Global Regulations, Institutional Development, and Market Authorities Perspective
Toolkit (GRIDMAP) provides a Minimum Package of regulations and practices for emerging markets and developing economies...
Type: ReportReport#: 203965Date: August 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
As countries rapidly urbanize, settlements are expanding into hazardous flood zones. This analysis considers spatial urbanization patterns and the evolution of flood exposure between 1985 and 2020 in 55...
Type: ReportReport#: 203941Date: August 21, 2025Author:
Rentschler, Jun ;
Lemke, Jana ;
Avner, Paolo
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