Bangladesh is warming at an alarming rate, the maximum temperature increased by 1.1°C between 1980 and 2023. At the same time, the heat index, or feels like temperature (which combines humidity and temperature...
Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, is the fourth largest city in India and a hub for commerce, culture, and education. This compendium explores how cities can address complex urban mobility challenges...
Type: ReportReport#: 197659Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Ollivier, Gerald Paul ;
Srinivasan, Shyam
The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) assesses Comoros’ external and overall debt as sustainable including in the medium term but continuing to remain at high risk of debt distress. Although debt indicators...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197996Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global goods trade accelerated in the five months from July through November amid strong US economic growth and a spurt in demand fueled by expectations of higher import tariffs. Trade in services, which...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 196933Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report explores the potential of maturing
technologies to address specific health
financing challenges in East and Southern
Africa. To the extent possible, it draws on
examples from countries in the...
Type: ReportReport#: 196995Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Partnership for Infrastructure Development Multi-Donor Trust Fund (PID MDTF) provides co-financing for World Bank operations in the West Bank and Gaza. (WB&G). During the reporting period (July 1,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 201029Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Data Facility (GDF) is an innovative global funding mechanism that was established in October 2021 to strengthen and facilitate transformative and sustainable improvements in data systems and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 200176Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document collection focuses on utilizing Earth observation data to enhance resilience in island communities. The training program emphasizes practical applications of Earth observation techniques...
Type: ReportReport#: 197571Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Annual capital raised by private infrastructure
funds increased from US$31.9 billion in 2010
to US$172.4 billion in 2022. An unprecedented
decline occurred in 2023 when the annual capital
raised was US$94.9...
Type: ReportReport#: 200771Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Digitalization accelerated by the pandemic has exponentially
increased the number and variability of alternative data
sources. The stay-at-home requirements during the pandemic
forced several business...
Type: ReportReport#: 197836Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Samoa is assessed at moderate risk of external and overall debt distress based on a strong debt carrying capacity, an improvement from the high risk assessment in the previous DSA published in February...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 200171Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Strengthening public financial management (PFM) represents a critical aspect of the Government of Nepal’s (GON) strategy to improve governance, optimize the utilization of public resources, and promote...
Benin’s overall and external public debt remains at moderate risk of debt distress, unchanged from the previous Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA). All projected external debt burden indicators remain...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197680Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document consists of a summary of best practice standards for coal mine closure and aftercare, complemented by a practitioner’s guide. In combination, these two modules can be used by coal enterprises,...
Type: ReportReport#: 200331Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Pohl, Wolfhart ;
Stanley, Michael
Ghana needs to contain budget rigidities and increase its room for fiscal maneuver, notably by pursuing steadfast implementation of the three year IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement, which...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: December 31, 2024Author:
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
per...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 196873Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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#: 196338Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note is designed to be read alongside the companion policy note on electronic signatures,
which explains the role of PKI in implementing cryptographically secured digital
signatures within a national...
Type: PublicationReport#: 196018Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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. Judgement was applied...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197639Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The scope for increasing public spending to meet development needs in many developing and developed countries is limited by low revenue and/or high debt. Increasing the efficiency of spending is therefore...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 200526Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Francois, John Nana Darko ;
Herrera, Santiago ;
Isaka, Hironobu ;
Mastruzzi, Massimo
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