Mining companies have a tremendous opportunity and untapped resource available to them in the form of the women in their communities and workforce. By recognizing the potential for strengthening the workforce,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 188800Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10744Date: April 2, 2024Author:
Ubfal,Diego Javier
In an increasingly data-driven world, data literacy - the ability to understand data and use it effectively – can generate significant improvements in national development outcomes. The World Bank’s Data...
Type: ReportReport#: 190321Date: April 2, 2024Author:
Kumar, Ravi ;
Kallaur, Emily ;
Chung, Pyrou ;
Jingjungvisut,Saowalak
This tool suite identifies the ways in which men and women can be impacted differently by infrastructure projects. It shows how efforts to understand and address the needs and interests of both men and...
Type: ReportReport#: 188807Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Any company seeking to address gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) must ensure that it is meeting minimum obligations to provide a safe workplace by addressing bullying and sexual harassment and...
Type: ReportReport#: 188808Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Togo on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains, minimizes...
Type: BriefReport#: 173493Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Since 2016, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) has supported over 30 countries worldwide through the Building Regulation for Resilience thematic area (BRR). BRR promotes enhancing...
Type: BriefReport#: 188804Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
This tool suite outlines the benefits that can come with a gender diverse supply chain and the reasons that a proactive gender-diverse supply chain policy can yield positive results. It offers strategies...
Type: ReportReport#: 188806Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Reducing outdoor air pollution can be achieved by strengthening air quality monitoring and regulating traffic and industrial emissions. Advancing existing initiatives by exercising more control over car...
Type: ReportReport#: 188676Date: April 2, 2024Author:
Baquie,Sandra ;
Behrer,Arnold Patrick ;
Du,Xinming ;
Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan ;
Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193403Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
UNESCO
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193401Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
UNESCO
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193404Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
UNESCO
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193408Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
UNESCO
Today’s global challenges are bigger, more complex, and more intertwined than ever before, from the relentless grip of poverty and stubborn persistence of inequality to the devastations caused by climate...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 189265Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper shall explore the role of the private sector in addressing human rights risk with a focus on migrant workers. The private sector employs and undertakes the works that involve vulnerable migrant...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193225Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Jayaprakash, Aakash
Learning Poverty shows the extent of the learning crisis by focusing on the share of children who don’t learn to read with comprehension by age 10. Children who are Learning Poor are not able to reach...
Type: BriefReport#: 191960Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The PULSAR Program, launched in 2017, is a regional and country level program for 13 beneficiary countries in Europe and Central Asia. The objectives and scope of the PULSAR Program are jointly determined...
Type: ReportReport#: 188769Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging
approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of
thinking and research in the field,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 189692Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Robert Bacon ;
Defne Gencer
This briefing provides key indicators for Cuba which help in monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. The arrows indicate longer term progress on outcomes from a base year,...
Type: BriefReport#: 181211Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This brief showcases the gender landscape in Cyprus on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains, minimizes...
Type: BriefReport#: 184664Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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