Migration can offer opportunities but also presents risks for migrants and those at home. These risks are often exacerbated by factors such as gender, age, and ethnicity. Social protection can potentially...
Following decades of remarkable declines in poverty and inequality, progress has slowed since 2015. Between 2015 and 2021, the national poverty rate decreased from 7.2 percent to 6.3 percent, while the...
Type: BriefReport#: 196087Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Building on its 7.1 billion dollars cumulative cement industry investment portfolio, International Finance Corporation (IFC) has developed a tool to help cement companies in emerging markets to start planning...
Type: BriefReport#: 197052Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Akinrebiyo, Femi ;
Sharabaroff, Alexander ;
Stec, Marek ;
Talavera, Margarita
The 2024 World Bank Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index is an inventory of the sustainability considerations used in World Bank (Bank) lending and analytical services as well as its corporate practices....
Type: ReportReport#: 194233Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This PWIP (Pacific women in power) baseline report aims to delineate the status of women’s employment in energy utilities and ministries in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to help inform relevant entry...
Pacific island countries face significant challenges in providing sustainable management systems for an increasing and diversifying range of waste materials, driven mainly by changing urbanisation patterns,...
Type: ReportReport#: 194241Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies. To this end, the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10954Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Adarov, Amat ;
Clements, Benedict ;
Jalles, João Tovar
The report presents an analysis of the World Bank–financed investments that use results-based financing (RBF) approaches in the solid waste management (SWM) sector. It reviews the World Bank’s investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 194249Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Lee, Hyunji ;
Khan, Ibrahim Ali ;
Bumbaugh, Amsale ;
Jain, Vibhu ;
Heneine, Emma Marie
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which started in February 2022, has caused large-scale losses of human life and severe damages to infrastructure. Livelihoods have been severely disrupted through massive...
Type: BriefReport#: 196084Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
It is often argued that small firms are more flexible than large firms. As a result, small firms perform better in volatile markets compared to large firms. The present paper explores this idea for a representative...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10953Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Amin, Mohammad ;
Ali, Nesma
Türkiye has made significant progress in reducing poverty over the last decade: the percentage of population below the international upper middle-income poverty line of $6.85 at 2017 PPP fell from 16 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 196086Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note introduces the 14th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP). Shared prosperity, a key indicator of inclusive growth, is measured as the annualized growth rate in per capita...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194234Date: October 21, 2024Author:
Sabatino, Carlos ;
Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ;
Aron, Danielle Victoria ;
Haddad, Cameron Nadim ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Wu, Haoyu
Armenia is progressing in closing the gender gap by ensuring: equal school enrollment at primary and secondary levels; more women studying in some STEM fields at universities (54 percent of mathematics...
Type: BriefReport#: 194223Date: October 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note presents the 8th 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 October 2024....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194235Date: October 21, 2024Author:
Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ;
Sabatino, Carlos ;
Aron, Danielle Victoria ;
Haddad, Cameron Nadim ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Wu, Haoyu
The World Bank’s Pacific Economic Update provides an assessment of the economies of 11 Pacific Island countries (PIC-11) in part 1 and highlights the potential of investment to broaden the economic horizons...
Type: ReportReport#: 194081Date: October 21, 2024Author:
Vashakmadze, Ekaterine T. ;
Agarwal, Vishesh ;
Puthong, Warunthorn Milk ;
Stamm, Kersten Kevin ;
Vorisek, Dana
Armenia is a small open economy and faces several trade constraints arising from its geographical situation and closed borders with neighboring countries. Landlocked between four countries, Armenia lacks...
Type: ReportReport#: 183534Date: October 21, 2024Author:
Nyawo, Mike ;
Geginat, Carolin ;
Dessus, Sebastien C. ;
Nucifora, Antonio ;
Sanchez Martin, Miguel Eduardo
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) explores the unique climate change challenge faced by the Pacific Atoll Countries (Pacific Atolls), the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194210Date: October 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) explores the unique climate change challenge faced by the Pacific Atoll Countries (Pacific Atolls), the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194210Date: October 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
East Asia and the Pacific, seen in the context of the world economy, stands out as a paragon of development. Despite the recent ravages of the pandemic and the persistent tensions of geopolitics, the region...
Type: ReportReport#: 194192Date: October 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
East Asia and the Pacific, seen in the context of the world economy, stands out as a paragon of development. Despite the recent ravages of the pandemic and the persistent tensions of geopolitics, the region...
Type: ReportReport#: 194192Date: October 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
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