Early investments in education were key to the remarkable economic development of East Asia and Pacific. Basic literacy and numeracy equipped farmers to adopt new seeds and fertilizers and usher in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 186553Date: December 19, 2023Author:
Afkar, Rythia ;
Beteille, Tara ;
Breeding, Mary E. ;
Linden, Tobias ;
Mattoo, Aaditya ;
Pfutze, Tobias ;
Sondergaard, Lars M. ;
Yarrow, Noah Bunce
The “Comprehensive Assessment of the Childcare Landscape in Lebanon: A Mixed Methods Study” analyzes the supply and demand of formal childcare services for children aged 0-3. It provides a review of Lebanon’s...
This paper examines the evolution of Colombian women's participation in the labor market from 1960 to 2018, shedding light on the complex factors that influence their labor opportunities. The study emphasizes...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10653Date: December 19, 2023Author:
Iregui-Bohórquez, Ana María ;
Melo-Becerra, Ligia Alba ;
Ramírez-Giraldo, María Teresa ;
Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria ;
Zárate-Solano, Héctor M.
The Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality supports evidence, better gender data, private sector and country driven solutions to help governments and companies invest effectively to accelerate gender equality....
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 186566Date: December 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
Jordan’s real growth registered 2.4 percent in 2022 and has accelerated to 2.7 percent in H1-2023, compared to a pre-COVID-19 (2012-2019) average of 2.4 percent. Growth was supported by the services sector,...
Type: ReportReport#: 186520Date: December 19, 2023Author:
Farid Sammy, Sarah Sammy ;
Oraby, Ramy Ibrahim Farag ;
Youssef, Hoda
The global agrifood system can no longer deliver the triple wins of a healthy planet, healthy people, and healthy economies. The current system is associated with high hidden costs and urgently needs transformation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186554Date: December 19, 2023Author:
Elabed, Ghada ;
Fontes, Francisco Pereira ;
Gill, Joshua ;
Guerrero Escobar, Santiago ;
Mas Aparisi, Alban Pablo ;
Pernechele, Valentina ;
Yerovi, Juan José Egas
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown that public health emergencies can have devastating impacts on health and essential health services, education, inequalities, and economic growth. In fact, many Latin...
Type: BriefReport#: 172936Date: December 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
The loss of human life, livelihoods, and assets as a result of disasters is on the rise. In 2021, more than 2.8 million people in Africa were affected by floods. In April 2022, devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal...
Type: ReportReport#: 186582Date: December 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
The World Bank GFDRR team engaged Azavea to aid them in the creation of a machine learning algorithm that would enable them to predict tree canopy cover in two African cities, Freetown, Sierra Leone and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186586Date: December 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven the impact public health emergencies have on economic growth, poverty reduction, and health system organization. The measured and unmeasured impacts of COVID-19 highlight...
Type: ReportReport#: 172936Date: December 19, 2023Author:
World Bank
This paper assesses the performance of Romanian state-owned enterprises with various degrees of ownership (minority owned with 10 to 24.9 percent stakes, minority owned with 25 to 49.9 percent stakes,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10649Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Dauda, Seidu ;
Iootty De Paiva Dias, Mariana ;
Pop, Georgiana
This report presents the findings of the Primary Health Care (PHC) assessment conducted between 2019 and 2022 by the World Bank’s Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) in collaboration with...
Type: ReportReport#: 186533Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Bernal Acevedo, Oscar Alberto ;
Diallo, Awa ;
Inden, Kazumi ;
Limame, Youssouf ;
Noonan, Caitlin Marie ;
Ramadan, Marwa ;
Taleb El Hassen, Mohamed Vadel ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
Does it matter whether poverty reduction programs target the female or male spouse? A randomized controllled trial in Ethiopia is used to study the differential impacts of easing information and financial...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10651Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Bedi, Tara ;
Buehren, Niklas ;
Goldstein, Markus ;
Ketema, Tigist Assefa
This report presents the findings of the Vital Signs Profile (VSP) assessment conducted by the World Bank and the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) in collaboration with Fiji’s Ministry...
Type: ReportReport#: 186528Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Diallo, Awa ;
Feil, Cameron Scott ;
Harrit, Margareta Norris ;
Hartshorn, Lucy Ann ;
Namedre, Mesulame Ratu ;
Noonan, Caitlin Marie ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
This Brief presents data collected by the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) project on legal and supportive frameworks to curb domestic violence and sexual harassment in 55 countries, including...
This report presents the findings of the primary health care (PHC) system in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an assessment that the World Bank conducted in consultation with the Ministry of...
Type: ReportReport#: 186529Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Cruz Villalba, Valeria ;
Diallo, Awa ;
Feil, Cameron Scott ;
Okara, Latifat Agharese ;
Ramadan, Marwa ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
The assessment of Kiribati’s primary health care (PHC) system, carried out by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kiribati under the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI),...
Type: ReportReport#: 186537Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Cruz Villalba, Valeria ;
Diallo, Awa ;
Feil, Cameron Scott ;
Okara, Latifat Agharese ;
Ramadan, Marwa ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
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