In the Gambia, very few children start school with a high level of English, and nearly all speak a variety of national languages. To support the development of a long-term plan for sustainable and efficient...
In major parts of the world, irrigation development has reached its limits in terms of land and water resources, as evident in the alarming overexploitation of groundwater resources and the deterioration...
Type: ReportReport#: 188739Date: March 2, 2024Author:
Plusquellec, Hervé
This brief discusses results from the survey of the youth population in Uganda using results from the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS). UHFPS has been collected by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics...
Type: BriefReport#: 188472Date: March 2, 2024Author:
Andrew Mupere ;
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Audrey Kemigisha ;
Cochinard, Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor, John ;
Ponzini, Giulia
Ensuring a safe environment for children to learn is more than a mission for the World
Bank. It is an urgent imperative. In large part, the success of our FCV Strategy is predicated on education. There...
Type: BriefReport#: 189389Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The March 2024 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 188600Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Beginning in 2012, Ethiopia’s first ever women-entrepreneur focused line of credit was established through the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP). WEDP provides finance and business training...
Type: BriefReport#: 188714Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Buehren, Niklas ;
Papineni, Sreelakshmi ;
Rawlins, Marlon Rolston ;
Weis, Toni Johannes
From 2001 to 2015, economic growth in Cabo Verde was accompanied by a reduction in poverty, which fell from 56.8 percent to 35.2 percent. The latest official annual poverty estimates in Cabo Verde based...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 194147Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cash transfers in general appear to be more effective than in-kind transfers or vouchers at improving a range of outcomes, including decreasing monetary poverty, improving health and nutrition, and increasing...
Type: BriefReport#: 191207Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
World Bank
The United Nation (UN) projects that 2.5 billion more people will live in cities by 2050, up from 4.4 billion today. Of the growing global population, most will come from the urban areas of low- and middle-income...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193256Date: March 1, 2024
Zimbabwe is a lower middle-income country with abundant natural capital and growth potential, but is highly exposed to climate change, with its immediate ability to address climate challenges severely...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 187767Date: March 1, 2024Author:
de Waal, Dominick Revell ;
Ilieva, Stella
This report outlines updated reform priorities for Thailand’s social and economic development. While the Thailand 2016 Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) remains broadly valid, the current global and...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 188334Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Haiti is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to its geographic location, low economic development, and limited resources. The country’s geographical location - characterized by its presence...
Type: ReportReport#: 192428Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Boyer, Christopher Jacob ;
Flannery, Jessica Leete Werner ;
Frake, April ;
Iglesias, Mikhael ;
Rabary, Malanto
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank, officially launched the Uganda High Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS) to track the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Type: BriefReport#: 192574Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Cochinard, Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor, John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini, Giulia
African countries and ports have much to gain from the adoption of advanced digital solutions, which will facilitate the flow of cargo through their ports in a more transparent and efficient manner. At...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193921Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cash-transfer payment mechanisms abound and have diversified greatly in recent years. Payments can be made manually (in person) on a set schedule at a brick-and-mortar location such as a bank, post office,...
Type: BriefReport#: 191203Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
World Bank
The World Bank developed the EdTech Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring the extent to which technology supports teaching and learning processes within traditional school environments...
Type: BriefReport#: 188649Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Lebanon Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aligns the country’s short-term recovery needs with resilient, low-carbon, long-term development, building on quantitative modeling-based analytics,...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 188143Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper provides conceptual definitions and distinctions between formalization, worker protection and productivity enhancement, and examines the impact of social protection and labor market policies...
Type: ReportReport#: 188471Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Castellanos Rodriguez, Luis Eduardo ;
Franco Restrepo, Camila ;
Ghorpade, Yashodhan
Female labor force participation in Mashreq countries is notably low due to a range of structural constraints that are further exacerbated by gender norms. This knowledge brief highlights lessons learned...
Type: BriefReport#: 190786Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Chatila, Mohamad ;
Lundvall, Jonna Maria ;
Nasr, Nour ;
Qarout, Dana Ghazi Nabeeh
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