Transportation infrastructure projects typically focus on assessing their direct benefits, like reduced travel times and lower costs. However, the broader impact of improved accessibility on job creation...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 193816Date: October 1, 2024Author:
Pkhikidze, Nino
Over the last decade, Serbia has been extremely successful in reducing poverty in the country. The share of people with incomes below the upper middle-income line ($6.85 per day in 2017 PPP) fell by a...
Type: BriefReport#: 196153Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
During the first two decades of this century, El Salvador was successful in reducing poverty, but this stopped with the pandemic. The national poverty rate reached 27 percent of households in 2022, up...
Type: BriefReport#: 196152Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
South Sudan remains one of the poorest countries in the world. According to the most recent nationally representative and publicly available household survey conducted in 2016/17, 67.3 percent of the population...
Type: BriefReport#: 196154Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty reduction efforts in Cabo Verde placed the country among the champions in Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of improvements in living conditions. The latest official poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 196075Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
After over two decades of continuous poverty reduction, Ethiopia has faced multiple external and internal challenges that have led to a deterioration of living standards across the country: COVID-19, Russia’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 196081Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, Haiti has endured recurrent shocks, with the effects of natural disasters, including the 2010 earthquake and multiple hurricanes, being compounded by persistent conflict and social unrest....
Type: BriefReport#: 196120Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poland entered the 2020s from a position of strength, as 28 years of unabated growth translated into long-term progress in household income and poverty reduction. Strong labor markets fed into significant...
Type: BriefReport#: 196144Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Sea level rise is a key threat for Maldives given its low-lying elevation, high levels of economic activity along the shoreline, and societal dependency on coastal ecosystems. Between 1993 and 2015, sea...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 192024Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
A road network map is one of the most fundamental features of geospatial information, with a variety of applications, such as asset management, investment planning, trip planning, and traffic analysis....
Type: ReportReport#: 195709Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Transportation Asset Management is a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, upgrading, and expanding physical assets effectively throughout their lifecycle. It focuses on business...
Type: ReportReport#: 195706Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Growth is projected to reach 2.8 percent in 2024, gradually converging towards its medium-term potential. The government has made progress in advancing structural reforms, notably the recent indirect tax...
Type: BriefReport#: 194010Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Real GDP grew 3.6 percent in 2023, driven by robust remittance-fueled consumption and strong private investment. Growth is expected to slow down slightly to 3.5 percent in 2024, hindered by a deceleration...
Type: BriefReport#: 194022Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The growth momentum was sustained in the first half of 2024 despite moderating household consumption. Domestic demand was buoyed by higher public consumption and investment. Medium-term growth is expected...
Type: BriefReport#: 193979Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Paraguay’s economy is expected to grow by 3.9 percent in 2024, supported by a healthy soybean harvest. Growth would be faster if not for uneven rainfall, which has dampened hydropower production. Poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 194027Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic growth is projected to remain robust over the medium term, driven by strong performance in the tourism sector. However, long-standing fiscal and external imbalances, including a recent sharp decline...
Type: BriefReport#: 194064Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of Middle East and North...
Type: ReportReport#: 193964Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The economies of Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu expanded in FY23, largely driven by a resurgence in travel and reconstruction activities while benefitting from remittances. Although economies are projected...
Type: BriefReport#: 193981Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Saint Lucia's economy, which is reliant on tourism, faces ongoing challenges from the pandemic's impact, high import prices, and natural disasters. Economic growth was modest before the pandemic, and recent...
Type: BriefReport#: 194029Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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