The World Bank's Annual Report for 2023 showcases the significant progress made by the Identification for Development (ID4D) and Digitalizing Government to Person Payments (G2Px) Initiatives. This report...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 188061Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
A significant educational achievement gap persists across various metrics, such as dropout rates, academic performance, and school completion rates, between adolescents and young adults in low-and middle-income...
Railways are a low carbon way to access opportunities and move goods to markets. To realizethe benefits of railways in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), an estimated USD 25-80billion of investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 188675Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Bisbey, Jyoti ;
Lawrence, Martha B. ;
Plavec, Matthias
Digital financial services (DFS) have been considered a game changer for women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment. Despite the potential of DFS, barriers to access and adopt DFS persist. Fintech...
Type: ReportReport#: 190876Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Madagascar’s location and distinctive topography makes it vulnerable to climate-related hazards, such as cyclones, floods, droughts, landslides, and sea-level rise (SLR). Current and projected changes...
Type: ReportReport#: 192427Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Flannery, Jessica Leete Werner ;
Iglesias Luzardo, Mikhael Gabriel ;
Rabary, Malanto
Tax revenues to GDP ratio in the Kyrgyz Republic is higher than most lower middle income countries at above 28 percent of GDP in 2022, but complex tax structure, narrow base and remaining weaknesses in...
Type: ReportReport#: 190967Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Balabushko, Oleksii ;
Burns, Lee ;
Dubashov, Bakyt ;
Gyulumyan, Gohar ;
Vujovic, Dusan
Although the Maldives’ economy rebounded strongly from the pandemic, macro-financial vulnerabilities persist. After double-digit growth in 2022, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth is projected to...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 191052Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This brief examines the effects of varying cash transfer values on outcomes by reviewing the evidence since 2016, inclusive of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the purposes of this brief and based on the sample...
Type: BriefReport#: 191202Date: 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#: 188650Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The World Bank is exploring a range of options to stretch its own capital and to expand private capital mobilization as part of its evolution exercise. In this context, stakeholders have expressed interest...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 188721Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cabo Verde, an archipelagic small island developing state, is endowed with an economic geography that poses both challenges and opportunities. Prior to 1991, the economy of Cabo Verde was largely sustained...
Type: Country Private Sector DiagnosticsReport#: 188299Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Benkirane, Zineb ;
Navarrete Moreno, Cristina
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 188059Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Staff assesses the Kyrgyz Republic’s public debt as sustainable with moderate risks of external and overall debt distress. Because the Kyrgyz Republic’s debt carrying capacity has been downgraded to medium...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 188181Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Integrate gender-responsive processes and practices to ensure representation of women and excluded people (e.g. rural populations, indigenous groups, elderly) in research/data/policy & decision making...
Type: ReportReport#: 188019Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Integrate gender-responsive processes and practices to ensure representation of women and excluded people (e.g. rural populations, indigenous groups, elderly) in research/data/policy & decision making...
Type: ReportReport#: 188019Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
In Croatia, the subject of gender equality has gradually moved from the fringes to the forefront of public discourse, reflecting both global trends and local imperatives. As of 2023, Croatia was still...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 190477Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the major health and development challenges of our time, impacting not only higher income countries, but increasingly lower income ones as well. It is important...
Type: BriefReport#: 193501Date: February 29, 2024Author:
Haldane, Victoria ;
O’Keef, Philip
High Voltage Electricity Networks (HVEN) has a relatively strong financial
position, but its leverage ratio is high, and the company depends on
sovereign debt resources to finance its capital expenditures....
Type: ReportReport#: 192155Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
The study reviewed available patient-facing digital applications for people with noncommunicable diseases along their journey in primary health care settings and proposed strategic action areas to advance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 188289Date: February 29, 2024Author:
Le, Sang Minh ;
Quang, Hông Trân
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