Bangladesh’s public financial management (PFM) reform journey started in 1989-1990 with the Committee on Reforms in Budgeting and Expenditure Control (CORBEC). In 1993, the government with donors’ technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 186726Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is a deltaic country consisting of floodplains created by over 400 rivers and channels. Flooding in Bangladesh is common, recurring with varying magnitude and intensity, affecting a greater...
Type: BriefReport#: 186733Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the financial stability implications of acute physical climate change risks using a novel approach focusing on a severe season associated with a series of tropical cyclone and flood...
Type: ReportReport#: 187424Date: January 1, 2024Author:
Dolk, Michaela Mei ;
Laliotis, Dimitrios ;
Lamichhane, Sujan
Gender equality is an urgent imperative. The world is experiencing an unprecedented set of crises with disproportionately negative impacts on women, girls, sexual and gender minorities, and other marginalized...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 187409Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Education develops children’s latent capabilities, contributes to a skilled workforce and acts as a powerful tool for reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity and boosting economic growth. Education...
Type: BriefReport#: 186676Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Livestock and Dairy Development Project (LDDP) aims to improve productivity, market access, and resilience of smallholder farmers and agro-entrepreneurs in the livestock and dairy sector. It focuses...
Type: BriefReport#: 186690Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh achieved its Millennium Development Goals targets of halving the population without access to improved drinking water sources three years ahead of time and showed impressive progress in sanitation...
Type: BriefReport#: 186694Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As Bangladesh’s plain terrain is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and canals, bridges play a critical part in the country’s road transport system. For every 4.5 km of roads in unions or upazilas, a bridge...
Type: BriefReport#: 186705Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Tourism Watch is a quarterly report produced by the World Bank which monitors global and regional tourism sector performance, outlook, and highlights policies aimed at enhancing the sector’s economic,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 187652Date: January 1, 2024Author:
Mavrogiannis, Anthony Patrick ;
Pio, Alex ;
Suris Coll Vinent, Alba
With the rapid economic progress in recent decades, and increasing adoption of technological solutions by major industries, Bangladesh will need to prepare its youth, the new entrants in the job market...
Type: BriefReport#: 186678Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the last decade, Bangladesh achieved a more than fourfold increase in electricity generation capacity and delivered electricity connections to more than 99 percent of its population. The Bangladesh...
Type: BriefReport#: 186700Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Conscious of both its increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels, the Government of Bangladesh committed to achieving an ambitious climate change agenda. The government revised its Nationally Determined...
Type: BriefReport#: 186702Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made great strides in developing an extensive road transport system. Yet, poor quality of construction and maintenance of the primary, secondary and tertiary road network is common, resulting...
Type: BriefReport#: 186706Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, the manufacturing - particularly the readymade garments (RMG) sector - has been a major driver of the economic growth. It employs more than four million workers, most of whom are women,...
Type: BriefReport#: 186724Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As per World Bank estimates, air pollution and lead exposure are responsible for more than one-fifth of the premature deaths in Bangladesh (2019). Strong environmental regulations, strict environmental...
Type: BriefReport#: 186732Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has shown great generosity by providing shelter to around 1.1 million Displaced Rohingya People (DRP) in Cox’s Bazar district. This has placed immense strain on existing infrastructure and social...
Type: BriefReport#: 186735Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Private Sector Assessment Report on the Republic of Yemen is delivered as part ofthe Private Sector Technical Assistance project. The goal of the project is to understandthe dynamics of the country’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 188469Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Dominica is a Small Island Developing State located in the Eastern Caribbean between Guadeloupe and Martinique. It is a volcanic island with mountainous terrain that includes nine potentially active volcanic...
Type: ReportReport#: 197562Date: January 1, 2024Author:
Abraham, Andrina ;
Chrzanowski, Pierre ;
Cowan, Nuala Margaret ;
Fedak, Michael ;
Gupta, Mira ;
Scotland, Shania
Ethiopia faces significant climate-related challenges that will directly influence population health outcomes. Climate change, coupled with human-induced health stressors, exacerbates existing health burdens,...
Type: ReportReport#: 192429Date: January 1, 2024Author:
Bayntun, Claire ;
Boyer, Christopher Jacob ;
Dorey, Stephen Geoffrey ;
Iglesias, Mikhael ;
Rabie, Tamer Samah ;
Woyessa, Adugna
The development objective of the Pacific Observatory is to improve welfare for the poor and vulnerable in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Island Countries through
expanding socio-economic information...
Type: ReportReport#: 189792Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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