Environmental and climate factors play an increasing role in shaping Ethiopia’s economic competitiveness, and this report aims to provide an overview of these shifts. This novel report is a high-level...
Type: ReportReport#: 194146Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Butler, Matt ;
Cartwright, Juan ;
Grinsted, Philip ;
Rossanaly, Milaine
Even as human beings are living longer and generally healthier lives, consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and processed foods with high sugar content are causing substantial death and disease. In recent decades,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193511Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Fuchs, Alan ;
Jha, Prabhat ;
Paraje, Guillermo ;
Savedoff, William
In virtually all countries across the world, the population is aging, and consequently, both the number and proportion of older people are growing. Notably, the aging process is accelerating at a more...
Type: ReportReport#: 193515Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Angrisani, Marco ;
Chen, Yizhou ;
Feng, Zhanlian ;
Glinskaya, Elena ;
Hou, Xiaohui ;
Lau, Samuel ;
Lee, Jinkook ;
Park, Hae Yeun ;
Phillips, Drystan ;
Sharma, Jigyasa ;
Suarez, Guadalupe ;
Wilkens, Jenny ;
Yoo, Yeeun Lee
As underscored in several background papers developed for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (HLI) Commission, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major and growing threat to the health of the world’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 193520Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Ahmed, Sali ;
Pickersgill, Sarah ;
Watkins, David
Against the backdrop of a new World Bank initiative to support African think tanks, the
“Africa Think Tank Platform”, this paper outlines critical opportunities and constraints
that think tanks may face...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194469Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Oviedo, Maria Alejandra Ormeño ;
Taylor, Peter
This World Bank in India newsletter for the month of September 2024 includes the following sub-headings: community ownership helps Improve Health Services in Nagaland; improving health services, even in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 193769Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poor health in old age comes at a high cost for individuals, households, and societies. Increases in life expectancy across countries have not always added years of healthy life. Accordingly, health promotion...
Type: ReportReport#: 193510Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Herl, Carlos Riumallo ;
Jamison, Julian ;
Moscoe, Ellen ;
Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria ;
Rojas Mendez, Ana Maria
Population aging is a global phenomenon: people all over the world are living longer. Undoubtedly, this is good news. Extended longevity reflects the social and economic progress of societies; it is the...
Type: ReportReport#: 193514Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Araújo, Natalia Aranco ;
Garcia, Gisela M.
Population mobility in the Sahel is a multifaceted phenomenon. Economic factors play an important role, with many seeking better livelihoods, higher wages, and improved living standards in response to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193611Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Coudouel, Aline ;
Ghorpade, Yashodhan
Economic activity has been resilient in Togo over the last few years thanks in part to fiscal stimulus which now needs to be unwound to reduce deficits and put public debt on a sustainable trajectory....
Type: ReportReport#: 193636Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To effectively address poverty, it is essential that countries have the tools and means to accurately measure people’s living standards. Most countries rely on data collected from household surveys to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 193440Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Foster, Elizabeth Mary ;
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon ;
Tetteh Baah, Samuel Kofi
The financial system in Indonesia is dominated by banks with high capital and liquidity buffers, and the non-performing loan ratios appear low. The results of bank solvency stress tests suggest that the...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 194453Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To achieve high-income status by 2045, Vietnam must accelerate regulatory reforms to boost productivity. Vietnam’s stellar economic success story over the last 30 years relied on export-oriented foreign...
Type: ReportReport#: 195398Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Akhlaque, Asya ;
Aridi, Anwar ;
Mustafaoglu, Zafer ;
Piatkowski, Marcin
The world’s population is aging at a dramatic speed, raising concerns for how to maintain income and productivity growth, improve the welfare of older people, and help them contribute to society. By 2050,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193518Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Johansson de Silva, Sara ;
Santos, Indhira Vanessa
Ecuador is a middle-income country with abundant agricultural, oil, mineral, and hydropower resources and a challenging fiscal situation. Ecuador is already facing severe consequences from climate-induced...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 193430Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In India, economic growth increased from 7.0 percent in FY22/23 (April 2022-March 2023) to 8.2 percent y-o-y in FY23/24. On the demand side, growth was primarily driven by a significant expansion of investment,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193358Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Green Budget Tagging Guidelines Conceptual Approach establishes a comprehensive framework for implementing green budget expenditure tagging in the Kyrgyz Republic, aligning with the country’s fiscal...
Type: ReportReport#: 193517Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic ;
World Bank
The world’s population is aging. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that, in 2030, 1 in 6 persons worldwide will be aged 60 years or over. This study explores the relationship between providing...
Type: ReportReport#: 193513Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Gatti, Roberta ;
Halim, Daniel ;
Hardiman, Allen ;
Sun, Shuqiao
Globally, 41 million people die from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) every year (World Health Organization 2022a). This accounts for approximately 74 percent of all deaths (World Health Organization 2022a)....
The central hypothesis of this research is that there is a strong, positive correlation between good management practices and firm performance, for which we find strong evidence in a survey on management...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 193764Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Acar Erdogan, Aysenur ;
Bossavie, Laurent Loic Yves ;
Demir Seker, Sirma ;
Duman, Erkan ;
Makovec, Mattia
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