School safety is critical for positive student, teacher, and school-level outcomes. Schools are safe when all students, teachers, and staff can thrive in a welcoming environment that supports learning,...
Zambia remains in debt distress. The stock of external arrears reached 11 and half percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by end-year 2022 and continued accumulating in 2023 in the absence of a debt restructuring...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 187864Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Montenegro assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Montenegro perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 187893Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
The risk of external and overall debt distress for Guyana remains moderate. There are significant upside risks to the outlook for debt dynamics in the medium- to long-term, given the August 2023 WEO forecast...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 187260Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
GFDRR helps communities and countries reduce risk and prepare for, and recover from, disasters by integrating disaster risk management and climate change adaptation into development strategies and programs....
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 187675Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
Prior to Russia’s invasion in early 2022, Ukraine was a prominent global producer and exporter of agricultural commodities, particularly grains. However, the invasion severely disrupted agricultural activities,...
Type: ReportReport#: 191837Date: December 31, 2023Author:
Ragettli, Silvan ;
Rosa, Lorenzo ;
Sinha, Ranu ;
Karimi, Poolad
Livestock is fundamental to national economies and households’ welfare in Sahel countries. The Sahel is very prone to droughts and shifting climatic patterns. Between 1950 and 1970, the Sahel experienced...
Type: ReportReport#: 192833Date: December 31, 2023Author:
Banerjee, Rupsha ;
Dicko, Tenin Fatimata ;
Fava, Francesco ;
Jensen, Nathan ;
Kahiu, Njoki ;
Lung, Felix ;
Plevin, John Luke
The Government of Uganda (GoU) with support from the World Bank Group has conducted a Public Expenditure Review (PER) of the health sector as part of the broader PER which also covers macro-fiscal adjustment,...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 189202Date: December 31, 2023Author:
Ayiko, Rogers ;
Chansa, Collins ;
Ekochu, Elizabeth Mabel Asege ;
Hayes, Brendan Michael ;
Kiganda, William ;
Mensah, Julia ;
Rwakinanga, Ezrah Trevor ;
Sebudde, Rachel K.
Somalia concluded 2023 with international achievements spanning external debt relief, regional economic integration, lifting of arms restrictions, and support for security sector transition. At the same...
Type: ReportReport#: 191171Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
The evident influence of COVID-19 on global health and economic systems became strikingly apparent in the initial months of the lockdown that commenced in March 2020. Curfews, lockdowns, and subsequent...
Type: ReportReport#: 193128Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
This note presents results of the poverty trend estimates for the period 2015-2022 drawing on the data collected in the 2015 and 2022 living conditions monitoring surveys. This period covers an initial...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202212Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
The Human Capital Umbrella Program, launched in 2019 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Government of Canada, serves as a catalyst for accelerating investments in people. The...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 190256Date: December 31, 2023Author:
Afkar, Rythia ;
Demombynes, Gabriel ;
Madhvani, Sonia ;
Ongsysia, Vanessa Audrey Co
Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) is a key element of the Government of Nepal’s (GoN) strategy for strengthening governance, optimizing public resource utilization, and ensuring inclusive...
Type: ReportReport#: 191255Date: December 31, 2023Author:
Kazmi, Syed Waseem Abbas ;
Shah, Shraddha
Given the ongoing debt restructuring and large and protracted breaches to the DSA thresholds, Ghana remains in debt distress and the debt sustainability analysis shows that debt is unsustainable, unchanged...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 188797Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
Mauritania’s risk of external and overall public debt distress is assessed as moderate - unchanged from the previous debt sustainability analysis (DSA) published in January 2023 - with some space to absorb...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 187878Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began February 24, 2022, has caused significant civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure and productive assets, and has taken a severe human, social, and economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 187897Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
Viet Nam, one of the fastest growing economies in the world in the past two decades, is aiming to become a high-income country by 2045. The role of capital markets, as a key element of a financial system,...
Type: ReportReport#: 187911Date: December 31, 2023Author:
Bango, Zsolt ;
Davis, Richard Mark ;
Hang, Nguyen Le ;
Kusuma, Ketut Ariadi ;
Ngo, Quan Ha ;
O'Reilly Gurhy, Bryan ;
Price, Will ;
Shindo, Tetsutaro ;
Sullivan, Matthew ;
Ta, Trang Minh ;
Zhao, Jing
Comoros external and overall debt are sustainable including in the medium term but remain at high risk of debt distress. Three of the four external debt burden indicators continue to breach their respective...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 187603Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
While COVID-19 is recognized as a global health pandemic, its far-reaching impacts extend beyond the confines of the health sector, influencing various socio-economic, political, diplomatic, and migration...
Type: Recent Economic Developments in Infrastructure (REDI)Report#: 193129Date: December 31, 2023Author:
World Bank
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