In Africa, agriculture is vital for employment and food security. Despite women contributing 40 percent of agricultural labor, they face barriers leading to significant gender gaps in productivity. Closing...
Type: BriefReport#: 189309Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The April Research Newsletter features the topic “Accelerating Digital Development.” The lead item is a summary of this month’s featured research, which focuses on highlighting both recent and ongoing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 189260Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Viet Nam’s economy slowed sharply in 2023 with three key drivers of growth – exports, consumption, and private domestic investment – losing momentum. On the production side, the slowdown was led by industrial...
Type: ReportReport#: 189457Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This issue brief provides an introductory assessment of efficiency (and inefficiency) in Bhutan’s health financing system understood simply as health outputs and outcomes per given input. Through a comparison...
Type: BriefReport#: 188775Date: April 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The World Bank’s Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Trust Fund (URTF), established in December 2022, addresses immediate relief and recovery needs and lays the groundwork for longer-term...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 189110Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Akutsina, Alisa ;
Newman, James P. ;
Sereda, Liliya
This report outlines diverging financial sector risks across income and regional lines, with lower-income EMDEs (Emerging Markets and Developing Economies) facing heightened vulnerabilities and limited...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202581Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Vries, Saskia de
A Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is a diagnostic instrument toanalyze key constraints to growth, support policy dialogue with the government, and inform engagement with different stakeholders. During...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 193555Date: March 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The survey shows that nationwide 21.1% of Sierra Leone households have access to electricity via the national grid (20.5%) or mini-grids (0.6%) and 14.7% have off-grid access. Off-grid sources predominantly...
Type: ReportReport#: 191559Date: March 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Maldives faces severe consequences from climate change. This could pose both risks and financing opportunities for the financial sector. Rising sea levels and coastal flooding pose significant threats...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 190961Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Mok, Rachel Chi Kiu ;
Regelink, Martijn Gert Jan
Through the Open Government Partnership, Estonia’s central government have worked with civil society to create a ‘policy dashboard’, known as the Minuomavalitsus dashboard, that compares levels of service...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0003357Date: March 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Côte d’Ivoire’s overall and external public debt remain at moderate risk of debt distress. The external debt service-to-revenue indicator breaches the threshold three times, in 2024, 2025, and 2026, one...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 191097Date: March 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Debt Management Facility (DMF) newsletter includes the following headings: feature stories: debt management reforms in the programmatic approach in Madagascar; regional training: debt-related fiscal...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 202319Date: March 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Consumer lending has grown significantly in Kazakhstan. Consumer lending by banks andnon-bank financial institutions has more than doubled between 2019 and 2023. Consumers areborrowing more, taking up...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 189165Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Boeddu, Gian Luciano ;
De Mesquita Gomes, Sergio Jose ;
Yoon, Yaewon
The South Asian region faces pressing environmental concerns such as air pollution, biodiversity loss, and the degradation of land and water resources, compounded by the challenges of meeting the needs...
Type: ReportReport#: 193159Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Bhada Tata, Perinaz ;
Shepardson, Karin ;
Tsydenova, Nina
Financial inclusion can be defined as access to, and usage of, a range of appropriate financial products and services by underserved individuals and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), provided...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 190962Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Appaya, Sharmista ;
Boeddu, Gian
Mongolia’s labor demand expanded substantially over the past two decades, and firm-based
employment more than doubled between 1998 and 2016. This increase was mainly driven by the private sector, with...
Type: ReportReport#: 191269Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Gruen, Carola
World Bank’s Gender Landscape for India1 presents grim picture of female participation in labor force. Multiple Barriers faced by Women is root cause of their lesser participation in labor force as well...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impose an increasingly heavy health and economic burden on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The World Bank’s investments in NCD management have increased steadily,...
Type: ReportReport#: 188793Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Chan, Benjamin Tien Bun ;
Wahnschafft, Simone Lydia ;
Xu, Meng Meng
Argentina’s agrifood sector drives both prosperity and crisis. While agrifood generates essential foreign currency earnings, tax revenue and employment, the sector’s vulnerability to external shocks can...
Type: ReportReport#: 188862Date: March 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
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