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
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
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
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
FY24, spanning July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, marked the first year of implementation of the second DDP strategy cycle, DDP 2.0. The Partnership’s nascent portfolio consisted, as of June 30, 2024,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 196983Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Cambodia remains at low risk of external and overall debt distress under the Low-Income Countries Debt Sustainability Framework (LIC-DSF). The current debt-carrying capacity remains consistent with a medium...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 200004Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Chad assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Chad perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local...
Type: ReportReport#: 197888Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
For more than a decade, the biennial Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report (MTR) has been the sector’s flagship publication, produced by the World Bank / ESMAP and GOGLA with support from key partners. It...
Type: ReportReport#: 204226Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Global Concessional Financing Facility (GCFF or Facility) Annual Report highlights the the progress, impact, and achievements made between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024, with a focus on GCFF-funded...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 203103Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The onset of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 highlighted the importance of digital technologies for remote learning and building better education technology (Edtech) ecosystem in the country. The 5-Year Education...
Type: ReportReport#: 197372Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Seychelles assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Seychelles perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 196857Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The assessment presents findings from comprehensive desk research, semi-structured interviews, and key informant interviews conducted in-person in São Tomé and Príncipe in September 2023. The report is...
Type: ReportReport#: 196893Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Zambia’s public debt is assessed as sustainable. Still, it remains at high risk of overall and external debt distress, compared to the June 2024 assessment indicating Zambia’s external and overall public...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 200707Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
In 2017, with the adoption of the Law on Financial Guarantees of Health-care Services, the Government of Ukraine launched fundamental reforms to the health financing system with the goals of improving...
Type: ReportReport#: 202646Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
World Health Organization
This report – Cameroon’s first ever official poverty assessment – draws on
the country’s latest microdata to suggest policies that can ignite poverty
reduction at a pivotal moment. Around 4 in 10 Cameroonians...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 202465Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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