Against the backdrop of a new World Bank initiative to support African think tanks, the
“Africa Think Tank Platform”, this paper outlines critical opportunities and constraints
that think tanks may face...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194469Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Taylor,Peter ;
Oviedo,Maria Alejandra Ormeño
Poor health in old age comes at a high cost for individuals, households, and societies. Increases in life expectancy across countries have not always added years of healthy life. Accordingly, health promotion...
Type: ReportReport#: 193510Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Ana Maria Rojas Mendez ;
Ana Maria Munoz Boudet ;
Moscoe, Ellen ;
Jamison, Julian ;
Herl, Carlos Riumallo
Population aging is a global phenomenon: people all over the world are living longer. Undoubtedly, this is good news. Extended longevity reflects the social and economic progress of societies; it is the...
Type: ReportReport#: 193514Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Araújo, Natalia Aranco ;
Gisela M. Garcia
To achieve high-income status by 2045, Vietnam must accelerate regulatory reforms to boost productivity. Vietnam’s stellar economic success story over the last 30 years relied on export-oriented foreign...
Type: ReportReport#: 195398Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Marcin Piatkowski ;
Anwar Aridi ;
Zafer Mustafaoglu ;
Asya Akhlaque
Population mobility in the Sahel is a multifaceted phenomenon. Economic factors play an important role, with many seeking better livelihoods, higher wages, and improved living standards in response to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193611Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Yashodhan Ghorpade ;
Aline Coudouel
Economic activity has been resilient in Togo over the last few years thanks in part to fiscal stimulus which now needs to be unwound to reduce deficits and put public debt on a sustainable trajectory....
Type: ReportReport#: 193636Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To effectively address poverty, it is essential that countries have the tools and means to accurately measure people’s living standards. Most countries rely on data collected from household surveys to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 193440Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Daniel Gerszon Mahler ;
Elizabeth Mary Foster ;
Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah
The financial system in Indonesia is dominated by banks with high capital and liquidity buffers, and the non-performing loan ratios appear low. The results of bank solvency stress tests suggest that the...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 194453Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The world’s population is aging at a dramatic speed, raising concerns for how to maintain income and productivity growth, improve the welfare of older people, and help them contribute to society. By 2050,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193518Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Sara Johansson de Silva ;
Indhira Vanessa Santos
The world’s population is aging. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that, in 2030, 1 in 6 persons worldwide will be aged 60 years or over. This study explores the relationship between providing...
Type: ReportReport#: 193513Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Gatti, Roberta ;
Daniel Halim ;
Hardiman, Allen ;
Shuqiao Sun
Globally, 41 million people die from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) every year (World Health Organization 2022a). This accounts for approximately 74 percent of all deaths (World Health Organization 2022a)....
The Green Budget Tagging Guidelines Conceptual Approach establishes a comprehensive framework for implementing green budget expenditure tagging in the Kyrgyz Republic, aligning with the country’s fiscal...
Type: ReportReport#: 193517Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic ;
World Bank
The central hypothesis of this research is that there is a strong, positive correlation between good management practices and firm performance, for which we find strong evidence in a survey on management...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 193764Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Laurent Loic Yves Bossavie ;
Erkan Duman ;
Aysenur Acar Erdogan ;
Mattia Makovec ;
Sirma Demir Seker
In India, economic growth increased from 7.0 percent in FY22/23 (April 2022-March 2023) to 8.2 percent y-o-y in FY23/24. On the demand side, growth was primarily driven by a significant expansion of investment,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193358Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As the global population rapidly ages, there is a pressing need for approaches to promote health, well-being, and productivity across the life course (Beard and Bloom 2015; Bloom and Sousa-Poza 2013)....
Type: ReportReport#: 193522Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Haldane, Victoria ;
Gisela M. Garcia ;
Bockarie, Tahir ;
Wu, Daphne ;
Herrera, Cristian A. ;
Castro, Maria Luisa Latorre ;
Chakraborty, Debapriya ;
Essue, Beverly ;
Jha, Prabhat ;
Jeremy Veillard
This Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) assesses Togo to be at moderate risk of external debt distress and high overall risk of public debt distress—unchanged from the last DSA.2 Judgement was applied...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194460Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Disease burden is commonly measured using a variety of health statistics, including deaths by cause, injury and disease prevalence and incidence, and disability-adjusted life years. While these metrics...
Type: ReportReport#: 193507Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Chang, Angela Y. ;
Stevens, Gretchen A. ;
Cardoso, Diego S. ;
Cao, Bochen ;
Jamison, Dean T.
Bhutan expects to double its hydropower capacity over the next decade, which is expected to have significant effects on the economy. Estimates using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model (the business-as-usual...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 193361Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This chapter aims to outline a framework for examining the impact pathways between non-communicable diseases (NCDs), human capital (HC), and end outcomes - primarily healthy longevity, inclusive growth,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193506Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Philip O'Keefe ;
Haldane, Victoria
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.
