The World Trade Organization (WTO) Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFD) aims to increase the participation of developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs) in global investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 201366Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
2024 was one of the worst years for the Palestinian economy and public finances due to the
impact of the Middle East conflict, centered in Gaza. The economy witnessed its largest drop
on record contracting...
Type: ReportReport#: 200157Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This collection of documents explores the use of advanced technologies for environmental monitoring and management. It delves into the application of Earth observation data, particularly satellite imagery...
Type: ReportReport#: 197570Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
On September 6, 2017, Sint Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIA) faced
extensive damage due to Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds exceeding
185 miles per hour (296...
Type: ReportReport#: 202374Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and fast payment systems (FPS) share a number of similarities. Both allow for instant transactions for end users, can rely on underlying infrastructures operated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 202132Date: December 31, 2024Author:
Aurazo, Jose ;
Banka, Holti ;
Frost, Jon ;
Kosse, Anneke ;
Piveteau, Thomas
Water is essential to building a livable planet and is central to the achievement of all the Sustainable Development Goals. This critical resource is under unprecedented threat. Water crises are becoming...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 196931Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Despite significant improvement, Chad’s external and overall public debt continues to be assessed at high risk of distress, with the application of judgment due to uncertainty on the medium- to long-term...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 201872Date: December 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper summarizes the approach used to estimate monetary poverty for Pakistan in 2019–20 at the district level. The small area estimation method is used to impute welfare from the Household Income...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11012Date: December 30, 2024Author:
Corral Rodas, Paul Andres ;
Malaga Ortega, Ramiro Alberto ;
Meyer, Moritz
This paper uses a rich set of geo-coded administrative and remotely sensed data on more than 1 million agricultural land transactions in Ukraine to explore how informality, size, and recent land reforms...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11013Date: December 30, 2024Author:
Ali, Daniel Ayalew ;
Deininger, Klaus W.
Standard measures of inflation, such as changes in the Consumer Price Index, do not account for the different effects of inflation across income groups emerging from variations in consumption patterns...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11011Date: December 30, 2024Author:
Kishwar, Shabana ;
Meyer, Moritz ;
Nasir, Muhammad ;
Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar Eduardo
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 196021Date: December 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Ukraine Taxpayer Compliance Cost Survey (TCCS) provides a snapshot of taxpayers’ experience filing and paying taxes and estimates of the cost of taxpayers’ compliance with State Tax Service (STS) administrative...
Type: ReportReport#: 196022Date: December 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the fiscal year 2018/19, 21.9 percent of the population in Pakistan lived below the national poverty line. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic, devastating floods in 2022, and a macro-fiscal crisis with...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11010Date: December 30, 2024Author:
Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar Eduardo ;
Kishwar, Shabana ;
Meyer, Moritz ;
Nasir, Muhammad ;
Qazi, Maria
This executive summary summarizes findings from the support provided to three AfCFTA members (Rwanda, Togo, and Zambia) in implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA)’s Protocol...
Type: ReportReport#: 196031Date: December 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
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