This report assesses Kiribati’s agricultural sector and explores how enhanced food systems could provide alternative economic opportunities beyond copra production in the Outer Islands. The study reviews...
Type: ReportReport#: 201888Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report contains the World Bank Group Boards’ calendar for the period from June to August 2025, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 202480Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Thailand is advancing efforts to develop a structured approach for integrating blue finance within the existing Kingdom of Thailand (KOT) Sustainable Financing Framework (SFF). The initiative builds on...
Type: ReportReport#: 202524Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The document presents a comprehensive analysis of electricity access and consumption in Myanmar, comparing 2017 data with projections for 2025, and differentiating between urban and rural areas. The document...
Type: ReportReport#: 202548Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank’s Papua New Guinea (PNG) Economic Update offers a comprehensive evaluation of the country’s economy, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth, macro-fiscal stability,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202592Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Controlling the public sector wage bill is important for governments to ensure fiscal discipline, efficient resource allocation, economic stability, and long-term sustainability. High and growing public...
Type: ReportReport#: 202505Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Chowdhury, Ibrahim Saeed ;
Piontkivska, Iryna ;
Velasco, Julio
This report outlines the World Bank Education Global Department's efforts to improve education outcomes for girls and young women, emphasizing its role in unlocking their economic potential. The brochure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202377Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Indonesia’s economy remains resilient amid worsening global conditions. GDP grew at 4.9 percent year-on-year (yoy) in Q1-2025, slightly lower than previous post-pandemic quarters. Domestic demand was impacted...
Type: ReportReport#: 202459Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This policy report studies Kiribati’s coconut sector, and proposes ways to remove distortions, increase efficiency, and encourage diversification. It does this while taking into account the coconut sector’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 201887Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Guidance Note was developed to support Public Employment Services in navigating complex decisions involved in digitalizing employment services. As the role of PES evolves with the need to balance...
Type: ReportReport#: 202504Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Ezzat, Muhammad ;
Lorenzo, Sara de ;
Tovar Mantilla, Guillermo Alberto
This PFR Guidance Note on Fiscal Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment supports World Bank country teams in integrating a gender lens into the macro-fiscal, revenue, and expenditure chapters of PFRs....
Type: ReportReport#: 202508Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Komatsu, Hitomi ;
Ozer, Ceren ;
Abramovsky, Laura Fernanda ;
Jourbet, Clement
This note presents the 9th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of June 2025. The...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 202631Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Salmeron Gomez, Daylan Alberto ;
Haddad, Cameron
The World Bank’s Papua New Guinea (PNG) Economic Update offers a comprehensive evaluation of the country’s economy, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth, macro-fiscal stability,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202592Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The quality of the built environment is fundamental to the functioning, health, and sustainability of societies and economies. Rapid population growth and urbanization are expected to increase the proportion...
Type: ReportReport#: 202099Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Sakoda, Keiko ;
Campos Garcia, Ana ;
Kawasoe, Yasuhiro ;
Mengote-Quah, Dixi
The Gabon Economic Update is an annual World Bank publication that presents an overview
of the evolving macroeconomic position in Gabon, followed by a detailed exploration of a
specific topic. The first...
Type: ReportReport#: 202509Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Kiribati’s copra subsidy is a major element of the government’s economic strategy that simultaneously accomplishes three key goals. First, it reduces poverty. Second, it incentivizes living on the outer...
Type: ReportReport#: 201889Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Rwanda evaluated a 22-week couples’ training program aimed at reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) by shifting gender norms and promoting equitable relationships...
Type: BriefReport#: 201924Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Cullen, Claire ;
Alik Lagrange, Arthur ;
Ngatia, Muthoni ;
Pierotti, Rachael ;
Vaillant, Julia
Kiribati is one of the smallest and most remote countries in the world and one of those most exposed to climate change. Over the past 50 years, there has been a steady migration of people from the outer...
Type: ReportReport#: 201886Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This is the second edition of the annual Guinea Economic Update. This annual report presents an overview of Guinea’s evolving macroeconomic position, followed by a detailed exploration of a specific topic....
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 202641Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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