In the 1990s, the World Bank and other development financiers supported a power sector reform framework emphasizing restructuring or unbundling of utilities, creation of regulators, private sector participation...
Type: ReportReport#: 200278Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Bui, Isabelle ;
Gupta, Amol ;
Loew, David
This World Bank in India newsletter for January 2025 includes the following sub-headings: women entrepreneurs in Rural Tamil Nadu; transforming northern India’s logistics and connectivity; some recent...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 197058Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Lebanon’s education system has faced severe disruptions since 2019, leading to significant learning losses. A recent pilot tested the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach, which groups students...
Type: ReportReport#: 196919Date: January 1, 2025Author:
El Franji, Nadine Joseph ;
Guedira, Fatine ;
Pushparatnam, Adelle
This options paper aims to highlight select evidence-based and innovative options for potential
programming that could unlock women’s and girls’ empowerment through the World Bank’s portfolio in Somalia....
Type: ReportReport#: 196345Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Hundreds of millions of young people in the Global South face uncertain futures due to poor access to quality education, inadequate skills, and limited employment opportunities. By 2033, the Global South...
Type: ReportReport#: 197337Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Carranza, Eliana ;
Koettl, Johannes ;
Mansour, Mohamad Hussein ;
Marguerie, Alicia C. ;
Rigolini, Jamele ;
Runk, Alina Zoe ;
Zini, Michele Davide
Lebanon’s education system has faced severe disruptions since 2019, leading to significant learning losses. A recent pilot tested the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach, which groups students...
Type: ReportReport#: 196919Date: January 1, 2025Author:
El Franji, Nadine Joseph ;
Guedira, Fatine ;
Pushparatnam, Adelle
Using unique nationally representative school and system survey data from 13 education systems in low and middle-income countries collected through the World Bank’s Global Education Policy Dashboard (GEPD),...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 196418Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Akmal, Maryam ;
Farysheuskaya, Viyaleta ;
Rajaram, Hersheena ;
Rogers, Halsey ;
Stacy, Brian ;
Venegas Marin, Sergio
The objectives of this report include providing an estimate of the direct economic damage to physical assets caused by the December 17, 2024, earthquake in Vanuatu, providing information on the sectoral...
Type: ReportReport#: 197072Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Gunasekera, Rashmin ;
Ishizawa Escudero, Oscar Anil
Sao Tome and Príncipe (STP), a lower-middle-income small island nation, is undergoing a significant wave of emigration, primarily driven by limited job opportunities and economic prospects, particularly...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 196370Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Barros Barbosa, Barbara ;
Boly, Mohamed ;
Kroll, Guillaume ;
Mawete, Delfim Mampassi E Martins ;
Monsalve Montiel, Emma Mercedes
This Guidance Note aims to help task teams enhance the relevance, quality, and impact of PFRs and facilitate their preparation. It identifies core requirements, including structure, length, tables, and...
Type: ReportReport#: 200367Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Blanco, Fernando ;
Larson, Bradley ;
Mastruzzi, Massimo ;
Thomas, Alastair
Since the early 2010s, the cyclical nature of government revenues and expenditures that are directly included in the budget has contributed to the accumulation of high levels of debt, resulting in a substantial...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This chapter has examined Ghana’s public sector wage bill, finding evidence of its volatility and issues around wage competitiveness and equity and weak control and planning mechanisms. Ghana’s public...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Many Ghanaians rely on agriculture for their livelihood, making the sector’s performance key to poverty reduction, food security, and sustainable development. In this context, public expenditure on agriculture...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Grievance Redress Service (GRS) is an avenue for people and communities to submit complaints directly to the World Bank if they believe that a Bank-supported project has or is likely to have adverse...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 200126Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Ghana’s development path, although registering past successes, faces a series of current and future challenges. Ghana succeeded in halving its poverty rate between 1991 and 2016, from 87 percent (US$3.65...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The focus of this Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is to review key policy and reform options for Equatorial Guinea to build the foundations for renewed, diversified, and more inclusive growth. The CEM...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 197516Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Doumbia, Djeneba ;
Kante, Cheick Fantamady ;
Mahajan, Sandeep ;
Rontoyanni, Clelia ;
Utz, Robert Johann
In an era of increasingly frequent and severe interconnected shocks, particularly climate-related, it is paramount to identify the most vulnerable populations in a timely manner. Dynamic social registries...
Type: ReportReport#: 196815Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Alberro Encinas, Luis Inaki ;
Geschwind, Sebastian
Understanding the fiscal policy stance as it relates to the business cycle and whether an economy is in recession or overheating is critical for policymakers to effectively support output stabilization....
Type: ReportReport#: 200369Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Blanco, Fernando ;
Capita, Irina ;
Francois, John Nana Darko ;
Lacey, Eric Anthony ;
Mastruzzi, Massimo ;
Ruch, Franz
Ghana’s education system comprises basic (that is, kindergarten, primary, and lower secondary), secondary (that is, upper general secondary/technical/vocational), and tertiary levels, as well as complementary...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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