Togo, a West African country of roughly eight million people, is endowed with a strategic location, a natural deep-water port, fertile land, and mineral resources. It is positioning itself as a regional...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 185419Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
Against the backdrop of aging, Indonesia has started to address important policy challenges, including by gradually raising the retirement age. Based on the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193752Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Abdur Rahman, Amanina Binti
This report provides an assessment of the current state of poverty and inequality in Lebanon. It documents the impact of a protracted economic crisis on households, that is well into its fifth year, along...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 190554Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made significant health gains, but the rate of progress is slowing and threatens to be reversed in the face of complex and interconnected challenges within and beyond the health sector....
Type: ReportReport#: 190588Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
This technical background paper evaluates the progress of African nations in establishing effective fiscal frameworks for digital infrastructure across the continent. Through a comprehensive comparative...
Type: ReportReport#: 190413Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Begazo Gomez, Tania Priscilla ;
Niesten, Hannelore Maria L.
This paper uses four decades of data on Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10785Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Blankespoor, Brian ;
Selod, Harris ;
Steinbuks, Jevgenijs ;
Trotter, Ian
In the dawn of the new millennium, Japan found itself lagging in the global race to embrace information and communication technology (ICT). In 2000, its internet penetration was only at a modest rate of...
The Country Opinion Survey in Chile assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Chile perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 190556Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper reports the results of two-year randomized control trials in two poor rural areas of Bangladesh. Treatment arms included monthly cash transfers, monthly food rations of equivalent value to the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 201092Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Akhter, Ahmed ;
John, Hoddinott ;
Shalini, Roy
Reform of formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is urgently needed in most low- and middle-income countries. Demographic trends, coupled with higher rates of students completing...
Type: ReportReport#: 183938Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Ashwani Aggarwal ;
Comyn, Paul John ;
Hoftijzer, Margo A. ;
Iqbal, Syedah Aroob ;
Katayama, Hiromichi ;
Levin, Victoria ;
Santos, Indhira Vanessa ;
Weber, Michael
Reform of formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is urgently needed in most low- and middle-income countries. Demographic trends, coupled with higher rates of students completing...
Type: ReportReport#: 183938Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Ashwani Aggarwal ;
Comyn, Paul John ;
Hoftijzer, Margo A. ;
Iqbal, Syedah Aroob ;
Katayama, Hiromichi ;
Levin, Victoria ;
Santos, Indhira Vanessa ;
Weber, Michael
What drives citizen’s trust in state institutions? There are longstanding debates on the pathways towards institutional trust: is trust driven by citizen’s perceptions of policy outcomes or by their perceptions...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10783Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Bove, Abel Paul Basile ;
Cloutier, Mathieu ;
Zovighian, Diane
The document collection discusses the vulnerability of a country to climate change, highlighting the human, social, and economic costs associated with extreme weather events. It also outlines the government's...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192416Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
As the conduit between power demand and supply, the utilities that operate the world's transmission and distribution networks will be the critical link in the energy transition. Utilities will need to...
Type: ReportReport#: 190500Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper provides one of the first estimates of elasticities of substitution across suppliers within the same product. This paper estimates these elasticities using new real-time administrative tax data...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10782Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Fujiy, Brian C. ;
Ghose, Devaki ;
Khanna, Gaurav
The Country Opinion Survey in Chile assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Chile perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 190556Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
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