This 2025 Economic Update for Burkina Faso contains two chapters. The first chapter presents the economic and poverty developments observed in the country in 2024 as well as the outlook from 2025 to 2027....
Type: ReportReport#: 203020Date: April 30, 2025Author:
Pajank, Daniel ;
Nana, Ibrahim ;
Ouedraogo, Aminata ;
Foster, Elizabeth Mary ;
Strittmatter, Yannik ;
Kone, Sekou ;
Asantewaa, Adwoa ;
Miller, Regina Nesiama ;
Bedrosyan, Daron
The latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) in Fiji was conducted in 2019-2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty was estimated to rise sharply, reaching 67.2 percent in 2021 (US$6.85...
Type: BriefReport#: 200652Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty incidence in Mali has remained high and stable, averaging around 45 percent since 2011. The ongoing conflict has been devastating, resulting in significant loss of life and mass displacement. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 200688Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the last decade, Serbia has successfully reduced poverty in the country. Economic growth with broad-based job creation has benefited the less well-off. A positive shared prosperity premium for the...
Type: BriefReport#: 200735Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
East Asia and the Pacific is one of the most dynamic regions in the world with growth of 5.0 percent in 2024. China’s economy expanded by 5.0 percent, the rest of the region by 4.9 percent, and the Pacific...
Type: ReportReport#: 201941Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
East Asia and the Pacific is one of the most dynamic regions in the world with growth of 5.0 percent in 2024. China’s economy expanded by 5.0 percent, the rest of the region by 4.9 percent, and the Pacific...
Type: ReportReport#: 201941Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
PULSAR is a regional and country-level program that supports the development of public sector accounting and financial reporting frameworks in line with international standards and good practices. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 202173Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
She Drives Change: A Toolkit for Redefining Opportunities for Women in Transport is a comprehensive resource designed to empower transport sector professionals and policy makers to address disparities...
Type: ReportReport#: 201044Date: April 30, 2025Author:
Kurshitashvili, Nato ;
Casabonne, Ursula ;
Nikore, Mitali ;
Juneja, Brinda
The economic stabilization program launched in Argentina in December 2023 has yielded positive results in addressing persistent macroeconomic instability, recurring fiscal crises, and high inflation. Despite...
Type: BriefReport#: 200621Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2016, 11.1 percent of Barbadians lived below the international upper middle-income country poverty line of $6.85 (2017 PPP) per day. Looking forward, Barbados remains vulnerable to extreme weather events...
Type: BriefReport#: 200632Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2017, around 21.1 percent of the population in Djibouti lived below the national poverty line. Djibouti is also among the most unequal countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, with a Gini...
Type: BriefReport#: 200647Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Estimates based on the national poverty measurement methodology show that 33.5 percent of the Egyptian population was poor in 2021. In February 2025, the government announced the sixth social mitigation...
Type: BriefReport#: 200650Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past two decades, Morocco has made significant progress in reducing poverty under national and international poverty lines. With per capita GDP growth accelerating in 2023-24, poverty is estimated...
Type: BriefReport#: 200681Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poland entered the 2020s from a position of strength, following 28 years of growth that elevated household incomes and reduced poverty. The percentage of the population living on less than US$6.85 a day...
Type: BriefReport#: 200725Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Despite making considerable progress in reducing poverty, Rwanda has relatively higher poverty rates than African peers with similar income per capita, and poverty reduction has become less responsive...
Type: BriefReport#: 200728Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
From 2017 to 2019, robust economic growth significantly reduced poverty rates: consumption-based poverty, defined as living on less than $6.85 PPP per day, decreased from 34.2 percent in 2017 to an estimated...
Type: BriefReport#: 200759Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This study builds on the analysis on fiscal space for health in Uganda that was conducted by
the World Bank in 2010. The previous study by Okwero et al. (2010) showed that there was low
and inefficient...
Type: ReportReport#: 201606Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the
forthcoming World Bank 2025 Mongolia Public Finance Review. It is intended for policymakers and practitioners...
Type: ReportReport#: 201855Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Public Sector Accounting and Reporting (PULSAR) Program, launched in 2017, is a regional and country level program in twelve beneficiary countries of Europe and Central Asia. Its objective is to support...
Type: ReportReport#: 202175Date: April 30, 2025Author:
Alaverdyan, Karen ;
Aleksanyan, Raffi ;
Kocharyan, Gor ;
Mamikonyan, Lilit ;
Azizyan, Arusyak ;
Gourfinkel, Dmitri ;
Rezk, Jose Simon ;
Sergeyan, Garik ;
Laski, Julian
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