Since 2016, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) has supported over 30 countries worldwide through the Building Regulation for Resilience thematic area (BRR). BRR promotes enhancing...
Type: BriefReport#: 188804Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
This tool suite outlines the benefits that can come with a gender diverse supply chain and the reasons that a proactive gender-diverse supply chain policy can yield positive results. It offers strategies...
Type: ReportReport#: 188806Date: April 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Reducing outdoor air pollution can be achieved by strengthening air quality monitoring and regulating traffic and industrial emissions. Advancing existing initiatives by exercising more control over car...
Type: ReportReport#: 188676Date: April 2, 2024Author:
Baquie, Sandra ;
Behrer, Arnold Patrick ;
Du, Xinming ;
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan ;
Nozaki, Natsuko Kiso
Learning Poverty shows the extent of the learning crisis by focusing on the share of children who don’t learn to read with comprehension by age 10. Children who are Learning Poor are not able to reach...
Type: BriefReport#: 191960Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging
approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of
thinking and research in the field,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 189692Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Bacon, Robert ;
Gencer, Defne
Today’s global challenges are bigger, more complex, and more intertwined than ever before, from the relentless grip of poverty and stubborn persistence of inequality to the devastations caused by climate...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 189265Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193403Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193401Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193404Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193408Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
The PULSAR Program, launched in 2017, is a regional and country level program for 13 beneficiary countries in Europe and Central Asia. The objectives and scope of the PULSAR Program are jointly determined...
Type: ReportReport#: 188769Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper shall explore the role of the private sector in addressing human rights risk with a focus on migrant workers. The private sector employs and undertakes the works that involve vulnerable migrant...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193225Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Jayaprakash, Aakash
This document recognizes and celebrates the partnership between the AFD Group and the World Bank Group (WBG), which is a model of international development cooperation. The partnership is now scaling up...
Type: ReportReport#: 189917Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Das, Maitreyi B ;
Gwyer, Julius ;
Quesnel, Brice Jean Marie
The Sahel has some of the lowest levels of human capital worldwide, with children's future productivity and earning potential being on average sixty-five percent below their potential due to poor health...
Type: ReportReport#: 190002Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Hilger, Anne ;
Lufumpa, Nakawala ;
Ng, Odyssia
Learning Poverty shows the extent of the learning crisis by focusing on the share of children who don’t learn to read with comprehension by age 10. Children who are Learning Poor are not able to reach...
Type: BriefReport#: 191988Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193439Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193458Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193468Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning crisis threatens countries’ efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 193419Date: April 1, 2024Author:
UNESCO ;
World Bank
Governments run complex operations disbursing and raising more money than most large business enterprises. Increasingly complex demands of government require a step change in skills and capacities: pressure...
Type: ReportReport#: 188771Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Balabushko, Oleksii
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