This document presents the FY25 World Bank Budget for Board approval. To effectively fund the work for the evolution priorities, whilst responding to the cost pressures and risks identified in the budget...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192955Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
South Africa’s green transition will have major implications for its workforce. This note presents five strategies to prepare the workforce for the green transition. The note explores the implications...
Type: ReportReport#: 196768Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This is the first annual monitoring report under the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) Third Party Monitoring Agent (TPMA) contract that began in January 2020. The report provides an overview...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 194856Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The global aquaculture industry has seen considerable expansion in recent years, driven by rising consumer needs, a lack of growth from capture fisheries, progress in production technologies, and augmented...
Type: ReportReport#: 190199Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Niger’s risk of external and overall public debt distress is assessed as “moderate”—unchanged from the previous DSA published in July 2023.2 However, the military takeover of July 2023 changed the political...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193691Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Both external and overall public debts in Nepal are assessed at low risk of debt distress, unchanged from the last year’s Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA). Present value (PV) of external debt-to-exports...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193713Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Reliance on public finances with good governance and a robust public financial management (PFM) system is essential for sustained progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Therefore, it is incumbent...
Gender gaps in access to, and use of health and long-term care services affect both women and men, albeit differently. While male mortality due to key non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in...
Type: BriefReport#: 193503Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Seemeen Saadat ;
Boudjadja,, Meriem ;
Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri
Know by many different names around the world, including duka, kirana, warung
and sari-sari, neighborhood convenience stores or micro retail shops are central to the economic fabric in emerging markets...
Type: ReportReport#: 200169Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
South Africa’s green transition will have major implications for its workforce. The World Bank recently published several complementary reports that more elaborately describe existing knowledge about the...
Type: BriefReport#: 196770Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Elizabeth Ninan ;
Margo A. Hoftijzer ;
Franz, Jutta ;
Duncan, Ken
Providing care for older parents or parents-in-law significantly reduces the probability of employment and annual earnings, particularly among women and intensive caregivers, which remains the most prevalent...
Type: BriefReport#: 193502Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Meriem Boudjadja ;
Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri ;
Seemeen Saadat
Côte d’Ivoire’s overall and external public debt remain at moderate risk of debt distress. Côte d’Ivoire successfully returned to international capital markets after a 3-year hiatus and used the proceeds...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193737Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Preliminary estimates from INETL, the Timor-Leste National Statistics Office, suggest that the economy grew by 2.3 percent in 2023, following growth of 2.9 percent in 2021 and 4.0 percent in 2022. The...
The Country Opinion Survey in Georgia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Georgia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 192795Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Republic of Congo (RoC) is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. RoC is committed to the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance low carbon development. In...
Type: BriefReport#: 192831Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
A Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is a diagnostic instrument toanalyze key constraints to growth, support policy dialogue with the government, and inform engagement with different stakeholders. During...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 193555Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Lodewijk Smets ;
Lachlan McDonald ;
Miller, Chris ;
Lodewijk Smets
Ethiopia faces political, economic, and humanitarian challenges. Support from the international community weakened notably during the two-year conflict in Tigray but is now resuming. Bunching of debt service...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194259Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Staff assesses Uzbekistan’s risk of external debt distress as low and debt carrying capacity as strong. 2 Under the baseline scenario, public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) external debt and total external...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192785Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study provides guidance on World Bank involvement in Digital Communications Infrastructure (DCI) projects in which finance has been extended to support build-out. In particular, the study provides...
The Country Opinion Survey in Bhutan assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Bhutan perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 192796Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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