This report presents findings from an impact evaluation of the NC program on nutrition outcomes. Specifically, it assesses the impact of the Reducing Rural Poverty and Malnutrition Project and the Poverty...
Type: ReportReport#: 204887Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report’s focus on fiscal matters complements ongoing work on megatrends involving labor markets, skills, demographics and climate (KP-1) and institutional matters (KP-2). The present KP-3 is not meant...
Type: ReportReport#: 204336Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Gentilini, Ugo ;
Amjad, Beenish ;
Blecher, Evan Harold ;
Bloom, Danielle Elena ;
Coppard, Daniel ;
Elshawarby, Amr ;
Friedman, Katriel ;
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan ;
Gorgens, Marelize ;
Guedira, Fatine ;
Knox, Duncan ;
Lopez, Diego Rodrigo ;
Modi, Arbind ;
Morgandi, Matteo ;
Naeher, Dominik ;
Nayak, Mahesh Dinkar ;
Ozer, Ceren ;
Pallares-Miralles, Montserrat ;
Pinxten, Juul ;
Rouleau, Dominique Claire ;
Sedmik, Elisabeth ;
Van De Poel, Ellen ;
Waddington, Andrew
This paper presents the findings of a systematic review synthesizing evidence on what works to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries. It covers both the evidence of constraints women entrepreneurs...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 204756Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Siegrist, Felicia Norina
Bulgaria faces multiple development challenges, including the need to preserve fiscal stability and improve tax collection at all levels of government to support investment and programs, especially in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 203668Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Garrido, Leonardo
This study examines the effectiveness and challenges of Uzbekistan's skills development system and skilling opportunities for migrants, with the goal of providing actionable recommendations. As Uzbekistan...
Despite significant progress in reducing poverty, the Philippines continues to face high inequality, which stayed elevated in the early 2000s as the economy grew. Although inequality has gradually declined...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11163Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Belghith, Nadia Belhaj Hassine ;
Fernandez, Francine Claire Chang ;
Lavin, Benjamin Aaron
Decarbonizing Brazil’s road freight transport sector is essential to achieving the country’s 2050 emission targets. To scale this effort, Brazil must transition from diesel-powered trucks to low- and zero-carbon...
Type: BriefReport#: 204015Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Bellas Lamas, Carlos ;
Pereira Caldeira, Gabriel ;
Moody, Joanna
This report discusses the remarks delivered by Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank, at the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development on June 30, 2025. His speeches reflect a shift...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 203972Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Banga, Ajay
This paper will present the World Bank’s Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program (SASPP) as an
illustrative case study to demonstrate the operational effectiveness of social protection and why it is a...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202721Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Coudouel, Aline ;
Gordin, Liza ;
Roest, Johan
Trade’s impact on emissions is not straightforward. Existing literature on trade and emissions primarily focuses on countries' net export emissions, often neglecting the emissions saved by importing products...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11164Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique ;
Ebadi, Ebad
This background paper examines the critical issue of how to enhance digital skills among youth who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in Africa to prevent approximately 72 million young...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 203090Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Gala, Priyal Mukesh ;
Kidwai, Huma ;
Namit, Kabira
his paper examines the current state of the gender digital skills divide in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), drawing on a broad set of data sources to assess disparities between men and women across key dimensions...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 203094Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Barron Rodriguez, Maria Rebeca ;
Gala, Priyal Mukesh ;
Voufo, Christiane Wendy
This paper examines vertical skills mismatch in Türkiye using a refined measure that adjusts for occupation, age group, sector, and year to isolate genuine education-job misalignment from compositional...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 202887Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Paul, Saumik ;
Raju, Dhushyanth
Fourteen years of conflict have devastated Syria’s economy. The assessment takes stock of Syria’s economic trajectory amid ongoing political transition and regional instability. It highlights the severe...
Type: Economic Updates and ModelingReport#: 202900Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Black Sea has been a crucial factor in the economic and human development of the surrounding region for thousands of years. In the past decades, the Black Sea region and its 160 million inhabitants...
Type: ReportReport#: 202723Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The 2025 Economic Update for the Central African Republic (CAR) analyzes the 2024 economic and poverty trends, provides a baseline outlook for 2025-27, and explores strategies to optimize multidimensional...
Type: ReportReport#: 204703Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
After three difficult years, a new phase of mining-led growth that began in late 2022 has helped Mongolia emerge from a period of acute macroeconomic imbalances. Despite improvements in fiscal and macroeconomic...
Type: ReportReport#: 203564Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Blackman, Andrew ;
Diaz Sanchez, Jose Luis ;
Dondog, Badamchimeg
The global challenge of water scarcity is intensified by factors such as population growth, rainfall variability, and water stress, with climate change further affecting the water cycle and impacting food,...
Type: ReportReport#: 203363Date: June 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The rapid expansion of the digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) presents opportunities and challenges in addressing the gender digital skills divide. This report analyzes comprehensive, genderresponsive...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 203095Date: June 30, 2025Author:
Barron Rodriguez, Maria Rebeca ;
Gala, Priyal Mukesh ;
Luque, Alberto Munoz Najar
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