The informal sector contributes significantly to the total output and employment of low-income countries. While women-owned businesses feature strongly in these informal environments, they are generally...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10804Date: June 13, 2024Author:
Owoo,Nkechi S. ;
Akuffo Amankwah ;
Pauline Castaing ;
Amparo Palacios-Lopez
From Sun to Roof to Grid: The Economics and Policy of Distributed Photovoltaics
explores the benefits, challenges, and risks of DPV, with special attention to the
economics of its deployment and its uses...
Type: ReportReport#: 188637Date: June 13, 2024Author:
ESMAP
In "Future Amman Positioned at a Juncture: Three Strategies Toward Climate-Smart Spatial Transformation," the intricate dynamics of Amman's urban landscape are meticulously studied to offer a comprehensive...
Type: ReportReport#: 190456Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Türkiye has achieved substantial progress in poverty reduction since 2007: the percentage of the population below the international upper middle-income country poverty line of 6.85$ at 2017 PPP fell from...
Type: ReportReport#: 191133Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC’s Banking on Women business provides a full range of investment, advisory expertise, and actionable data to financial institutions in emerging markets to catalyze sustainable financial services for...
Type: BriefReport#: 193529Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Multidimensional well-being indicators have the potential to reduce the “bias” associated to monetary indicators. However, they face stringent data constraints. This paper studies the construction of indicators...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10800Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Benoit Marie A Decerf
Since the 1980s, IFC has been a critical player in climate business and continues to be a leader in this space. IFC’s climate business
is focused in the near term on five strategic areas – clean energy,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193532Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
The last few years have been challenging for economies across the world, as multiple and overlapping crises have increased stress on the capabilities of public and private sectors to address the needs...
Type: ReportReport#: 191116Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Amman sits at a crossroads. The city's growth presents new opportunities for development that can be both efficient and sustainable. However, rapid urbanization also strains public infrastructure and services,...
Type: ReportReport#: 190457Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC builds the ecosystem for private investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies, through advisory services and capital market reforms, thereby improving access and opportunities.
Type: BriefReport#: 193531Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC helps clients create insurance markets to serve emerging market consumers and enables insurers to invest in both capital markets and real sectors. IFC works in the insurance sector in three main areas:...
Type: BriefReport#: 193537Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Although Jordan is a small contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its emissions have rapidly increased in the last four decades. Transport and energy prove to be the two sectors with the...
Type: ReportReport#: 190458Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Jon Kher Kaw ;
Yanchao Li ;
Mira Morad ;
Waad Tammaa
The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the...
Type: ReportReport#: 191118Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
Mohamed Coulibaly ;
Johannes Hoogeveen ;
Emilie Jourdan ;
Aboudrahyme Savadogo
Over the past nine months Türkiye has been moving rapidly to normalize macroeconomic policies. Economic growth was strong at 4.5 percent in 2023 but is projected to moderate to 3.0 percent in 2024 before...
Type: ReportReport#: 176804Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
After several years of negative shocks, global growth is expected to hold steady in 2024 and then edge up in the next couple of years, in part aided by cautious monetary policy easing as inflation gradually...
Type: ReportReport#: 191093Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC invests directly in companies’ and financial institutions’ equity and also through private equity funds. IFC encourages companies it invests in to broaden share ownership through public listings, thereby...
Type: BriefReport#: 195333Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
ESMAP’s Sustainable Cooling Program and SEforAll prepared this report to stimulate discussion and action among stakeholders on the urgent need for significantly more attention to the nexus of access to...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 190779Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Leo Joseph Blyth ;
Ben Hartley
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