Across the globe countries are looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions to reach carbon neutrality and combat climate change. But doing so can be complicated. Countries are putting a price on carbon emissions...
Type: BriefReport#: 190933Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Safarov, Maksudjon ;
Smith, Jason James
In the long term, both energy security and decarbonization in the region will depend on substantial increases in national climate ambitions. Achieving those increases will depend, in turn, on equally substantial...
Type: BriefReport#: 190932Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Doczi, Szilvia ;
Losz, Akos ;
Kanudia, Amit ;
Mayer, Armin Michael ;
Kodjaev, Bobur ;
Akcura, Elcin ;
Toth, Peter ;
Malischek, Raimund Alexander Viktor ;
De Miglio, Rocco ;
Keskes, Tarek
Senegal has a population of approximately 18 million people, with almost half of its citizens living in urban areas, well ahead of the Sub-Saharan average. The vulnerability to disasters, as well as increased...
Type: BriefReport#: 189801Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The ongoing conflict in Yemen is estimated to have led to the loss of around 377,000 lives by 2022, out of a total population of 33.7 million. 3.4 million people need some form of humanitarian assistance....
Type: BriefReport#: 189800Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 2017 sets the vision and governance framework for establishing a Pan-Arab Electricity Market (PAEM). The signing of the MOU officially launched a five-stage...
Type: ReportReport#: 192646Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Alhaddad, Waleed Tayseer A ;
Bowman, C. Douglas ;
Kamh, Mohamed Zakaria
Europe’s risk profile and projected climate change impacts, concentration of population, and aging infrastructure and assets call for urgent action to improve resilience. While European countries are taking...
Type: ReportReport#: 189809Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Procurement in investment project financing supports borrowers to achieve value for money with integrity in delivering sustainable development . This report focuses on new standard procurement documents...
Type: ReportReport#: 189811Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
People who experience some form of cognitive, intellectual, psychosocial, sensorial and or physical disabilities are particularly vulnerable to poverty and suffer disproportionately from social and economic...
Type: ReportReport#: 189797Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Al-Daily, Wafa ;
Al-Jolah, Abdulmalek ;
Choi, Narae ;
Hasoloan, Jonathan Todo ;
Mahfouz, Elie ;
Park, Hogeun ;
Semichon, Marine ;
Varnai, Bea
This report is about diagnosis and best practices of inventory of laws for Iraq. It focuses on the following : reviewing the stock of legislation is an efficient tool to improve and strengthen the quality...
Type: ReportReport#: 189812Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
R&D tax incentives (RDTIs) are among the most popular instruments that governments in both developing and developed economies employ to induce private investment in research and development (R&D). RDTIs...
Type: ReportReport#: 190149Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Castro, Lucio ;
Frias, Jaime Andres Uribe ;
Rogers, Juan Douglas ;
Shin, Kyeyoung ;
Yanchao Li
This note summarizes a systematic approach developed in 2021-2023 by the Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) team of the Ghana Country Management Unit (CMU) to strengthen the management of child...
Type: BriefReport#: 189998Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Darimani, Abdulai ;
Okereke, Nneka ;
Severinsson, Anna Kristina Elisabet Nordenmark
This report, which also includes detailed case studies, is the first comprehensive review of benefit sharing conducted within the Bank; previous studies have focused on specific sectors only. The goal...
Type: ReportReport#: 182076Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Cimato, Federica ;
Johnson, Erik Caldwell
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) play a critical role in Myanmar, providing both rural and urban populations with the credit they need to finance purchases of working capital, agricultural inputs, and...
Type: ReportReport#: 190683Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Edwards, Kim Alan ;
Htay Htay, Nang ;
Mansaray, Kemoh ;
Wagh, Smita
Pakistani children have faced nationwide and severe disruptions to their schooling over the past several years, first due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then the 2022 floods. Given the country’s vulnerability...
Type: BriefReport#: 190701Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Baron, Juan ;
D Angelo, Sophia Marie ;
Isa, Sana
Educating girls has a myriad of benefits ranging from greater empowerment and economic opportunities to improved health outcomes and reduced poverty. In Pakistan, school-age children, especially girls,...
Type: ReportReport#: 190702Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Baron, Juan ;
Bend, Mary ;
Ejaz, Neelam ;
Lee, Ling Jessica Diana ;
Trako, Iva
The municipality of Heraklion is located seaside along the Aegean Sea, on the north coast of the island of Crete. Heraklion is the fourth largest city in Greece, and the administrative capital of Crete...
Type: ReportReport#: 194284Date: May 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Ukraine human development update summarizes the cumulative effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, provides an overview of World Bank support, and synthesizes findings from the third round of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 190953Date: May 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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