The International Standards and Technical Regulations program is a 3-year project financed by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The focus of the program is to build awareness among companies...
Type: BriefReport#: 193214Date: August 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, considerable support has emerged within the international community for broader, more ambitious climate change miitigation efforts. Among the leading innovations is the Regional Energy...
Type: BriefReport#: 193217Date: August 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study explored the perceptions and experiences of students, parents, teachers, and other education stakeholders involved in Prográmate, a project that uses a digital personalized learning (DPL) platform...
IFC is helping Armenian food producers increase competitiveness by improving their food safety practices. The IFC Armenia Food Safety Improvement Project will facilitate access to markets for Armenian...
Type: BriefReport#: 193185Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
As the World Bank Group (WBG) is evolving, it remains a strategic partner for Romania in helping accelerate the pace and impact of the country’s national development efforts while pursuing opportunities...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: CPF0000002Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, Myanmar has witnessed considerable economic and political instability, leading many young people, particularly the higher-skilled, to consider migrating abroad for improved prospects....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10878Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Yashodhan Ghorpade ;
Muhammad Saad Imtiaz ;
Theingie Han
The Myitnge River Basin Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) has been commissioned by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as part of its activities to promote environmentally sustainable renewable...
Type: BriefReport#: 193171Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Locher, Helen ;
Staub, Carsten ;
Kate M. Lazarus
The Kenya Longitudinal Socioeconomic Study of Refugees and Host Communities
(K-LSRH) is the first nationally comparable survey of registered refugees and hosts in
Kenya, offering a unique opportunity to...
Type: BriefReport#: 193157Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper introduces a novel index to measure public investment quality, utilizing the World Bank’s investment project performance data from 120 countries over 2000–21. After detailing the construction...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10877Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Amat Adarov ;
Panizza,Ugo
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has launched the Pacific Microfinance
Initiative in partnership with the Australian Government to improve access to basic financial services, particularly for women,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193181Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
Kenya is one of the countries covered in the World Bank Household Survey of Migrants in Africa. The overall objective of the survey was to help improve the understanding of the impact of migration and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193167Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
Jurisdictions that rely on emissions trading to control emissions often utilize other environmental or energy policies as well, including policies to support renewable energy and reduce energy consumption....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10872Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Carolyn Fischer ;
Qu, Chenfei ;
Goulder,Lawrence H.
A Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) is a multi-step process that analyzes and estimates the total sum of the direct and indirect impacts of proposed activities on the environment, and on communities....
Type: BriefReport#: 193168Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Locher, Helen ;
Staub, Carsten ;
Kate M. Lazarus
The Kenya Longitudinal Socioeconomic Study of Refugees and Host Communities
(K-LSRH) is the first nationally comparable survey of registered refugees and hosts in
Kenya, offering a unique opportunity to...
Type: ReportReport#: 193157Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
After the manipulated elections of 2010 that saw the victory of the military backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the junta dissolved in 2011 and Thein Sein was elected as president. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 193146Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Minischetti, Elisa
To make the value proposition work for retail agents, it is important to understand how the role that an MFSP expects them to perform fits within the agent’s existing business. Fit is particularly important...
Type: BriefReport#: 193148Date: August 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
Individuals’ socio-emotional skills (SES), and their perceptions of their skill levels, matter for labor market outcomes and other welfare outcomes. Men appear to have higher levels of SES than women,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10873Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Rachel Cassidy ;
Smita Das ;
Clara Delavallade ;
Kipchumba,Elijah ;
Komba,Julietha
While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This lack of an accepted measure makes it harder to monitor progress toward sustainable...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10875Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Paola Marcela Ballon Fernandez ;
Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva
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