At the national level, the incidence of poverty has seemingly plateaued between 2018-2019 and 2021-2022. Despite this, the absolute number of impoverished individuals rose by one million, a consequence...
Although female labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is a lack of studies on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s female labor...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10801Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Hai-Anh H. Dang ;
Salehi-Isfahani,Djavad ;
Do,Minh N. N.
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
At national level, the incidence of poverty in Mali increased by 3.4 percentage point from 42.1 percent in 2018 to 45.5 percent in 2022. This increase is largely driven by an increase in poverty in urban...
The report (Volume 1) is structured in the following way: The first section provides an overview of
the condition of the physical infrastructure and some of the challenges in maintaining and improving...
Type: ReportReport#: 191123Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poverty increased by 1.8 percentage points between 2018-2019 and 2021-2022, largely driven by increased poverty in urban areas and the Sahel region. Urban poverty increased by 3.5 percentage points, compared...
Type: ReportReport#: 191125Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
The WBG's mission is to work across the housing value chain to enable and deepen the market. For more than 30 years, IFC has supported the expansion of residential mortgage lending and affordable housing...
Type: BriefReport#: 193535Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
At the national level, the incidence of poverty in Chad has increased by 2.5 percentage points, rising from 42.3 percent in 2018 to 44.8 percent in 2022. This increase implies that the poor population...
Type: ReportReport#: 191117Date: 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: PublicationReport#: 191093Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
This FY24 Annual Review Report marks the penultimate document under the second phase of the five-year Office Support Agreement (OSA 2.0) between the Malaysian Government and the World Bank Group. The report...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 191067Date: June 11, 2024Author:
Mei Ling Tan ;
Vincent M. Abrigo ;
Samantha Pheh Pek Nee ;
Arifurrahman Bin Rusman
Climate change will likely be the most critical threat to private sector resilience in the coming years. Despite Georgia’s relatively small contribution to global carbon emissions, the country has experienced...
Type: ReportReport#: 191075Date: June 11, 2024Author:
Leonardo Iacovone ;
Matias Belacin ;
Xavier Cirera ;
Santiago Reyes Ortega
The document collection focuses on strategies to manage vaccine misinformation and increase vaccine acceptance and uptake. It delves into effective crisis communication strategies to address concerns and...
Type: ReportReport#: 191100Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper examines how an earthquake in Papua New Guinea changed people’s attitudes about and the prevalence of intimate partner violence. Although there are several reasons why disasters can aggravate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10799Date: June 11, 2024Author:
Leng,Alyssa ;
Sharad Alan Tandon
Caribbean countries have high exposure and vulnerability to frequent and costly disasters caused by natural hazards. In addition to steep topography, countries in the Caribbean are in the path of Atlantic...
In the wake of the pandemic, the greatest obstacle to COVID-19 vaccination in the Caribbean is vaccine acceptance and uptake rather than supply. Social media surveys were conducted in three Caribbean countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 191104Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Health care systems must be prepared to address the expanding and complex needs of an aging population. Rather than a “silver challenge,” this situation should be seen as an opportunity to reevaluate and...
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) lays out the World Bank strategy for supporting Tanzania in realizing its vision to consolidate its status as a middle-income country, achieve a high level of human...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: CPF0000021Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Tax evaders exploit vulnerabilities in the tax legal framework, processes and revenue collection system. Countries need to improve their defense mechanisms to prevent, detect, and sanction tax evasion...
Type: ReportReport#: 191074Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the wake of the pandemic, the greatest obstacle to COVID-19 vaccination in the Caribbean is vaccine acceptance and uptake rather than supply. Social media surveys were conducted in three Caribbean countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 191104Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
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