The First Green and Climate Resilient Development (GCRD) Credit is a significant step by Bangladesh to embrace a future that is both clean, efficient, and prepared for the challenges of climate change....
Type: BriefReport#: 186718Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is among most disaster-prone countries in the world. It is highly exposed to a variety of hazards such as floods, cyclones, and earthquakes. The Government of Bangladesh has instituted disaster...
Type: BriefReport#: 186721Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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
Despite Bangladesh’s success in reducing poverty, a significant number of people still live below and around the poverty line. The Government of Bangladesh currently implements several cash transfer programs...
Type: BriefReport#: 186686Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The document collection provides an overview of the economic situation in a specific country in January 2024. It covers various aspects such as industrial production, retail sales, international trade,...
Type: BriefReport#: 187955Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a partnership between the World Bank and 24 partners to help low- and middle-income countries reduce poverty and boost growth through sustainable...
Demand for higher education has been rising in Bangladesh. In recent years, the changing nature of work, along with technological acceleration, has increased the demand for high-level skills and technically...
Type: BriefReport#: 186679Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
While Bangladesh significantly increased power generation capacity and access to electricity in recent years, the country still faces challenges to ensure quality and reliability of power supply. Unreliable...
Type: BriefReport#: 186698Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities around Bangladeshi cities and towns experienced highly negative health impacts, jobs and livelihood losses, and a deterioration of basic services. Urban local...
Type: BriefReport#: 186717Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Microenterprises diversify economic activity and contribute significantly to poverty alleviation. In Bangladesh, half of population depend on 9 million existing microenterprises for their livelihoods....
Type: BriefReport#: 186731Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As Bangladesh aspires to move up the value chain and become an upper middle-income country, there have to be significant gains in quality and relevance of skills imparted by the secondary education system....
Type: BriefReport#: 186681Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is well placed to play an important role in regional trade and logistics networks, and as a transit country in South Asia. There are corridors and associated border crossing points that connect...
Type: BriefReport#: 186704Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is known for its pioneering approaches that support Micro Enterprises (MEs) to alleviate poverty. Microenterprises contribute up to 25 percent of GDP and provide 56 percent of jobs in the country,...
Type: BriefReport#: 186715Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Bangladesh economy has undergone important structural shifts, and the industrial sector has become a large contributor to growth and employment. The Export Competitiveness for Jobs (EC4J) project directly...
Type: BriefReport#: 186719Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Azerbaijan assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Azerbaijan perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 187903Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The importance of chronic diseases in Uruguay have been widely reported and analyzed in multiple studies
and reports. Their impact on mortality and high cost have been determining factors in the development...
Type: ReportReport#: 189162Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This policy paper aims to harness the power of public
procurement to promote gender equality in nine countries
of the Caribbean region: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize,
Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana,...
Type: ReportReport#: 189276Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Demographic transformations, labour shortages, and a global health crisis has prompted a critical assessment of the gendered implications of migration in Europe's social care sector. This research paper...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193222Date: January 1, 2024Author:
Blower-Nassiri, Jenna
In seeking to reach upper middle-income status by 2030 and high-income status by 2045, Vietnam aspires to become a modern and industrialized nation with a higher quality of life for its citizens. After...
Type: ReportReport#: 195994Date: January 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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