Costa Rica’s primary health care system serves as the country’s foundation for universal health coverage by establishing primary care as the first point of access to health services for all individuals....
Type: ReportReport#: 186540Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Bernal Acevedo, Oscar Alberto ;
Desai, Eesha ;
Ross, Lance Joseph ;
Schwarz, Dan ;
Siam, Zeina Ali Mahmoud ;
Velázquez, Natalia Rovelo ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela ;
Wiken, Jess
About half of Brazil’s wastewater goes untreated, a situation that creates significant health and environmental problems. To achieve the benefits of formal sanitation systems, households must connect to...
Type: BriefReport#: 186990Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Brescianini, Juliana Neves Soares ;
Castaneda Nunez, Jorge Luis ;
Correia Santos, Leonardo Gill ;
De Carvalho Marques, Murilo ;
Dill, Helena Cristina ;
Finamor Pfeifer, Flora
Implementation science is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on studying and promoting effective strategies for translating evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into routine practice to improve outcomes...
Type: ReportReport#: 186531Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Vilar, Mireya ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
World Bank trust funds are financial instruments that create partnerships and platforms for financial, knowledge, and other collaborations around the world and across every area of development. They accept...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 186521Date: December 18, 2023Author:
World Bank
Trust funds are part of the World Bank’s push for increased climate action. They play an important role in the provision of concessional funding to scale up climate investments, help countries in their...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 186521Date: December 18, 2023Author:
World Bank
This report presents the findings of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiatives (PHCPI) assessment in Gujarat, conducted by the World Bank in consultation with the Health and Family Welfare Department...
Type: ReportReport#: 186536Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Desai, Eesha ;
Feil, Cameron Scott ;
Narkhede, Kiran Madhukar ;
Noonan, Caitlin Marie ;
Patel, Minjan Bharatbhai ;
Rovelo Velazquez, Natalia ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
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 Solomon Islands’...
Type: ReportReport#: 186534Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Diallo, Awa ;
Feil, Cameron Scott ;
Hartshorn, Lucy Ann ;
Idufanoa, Brian ;
Irava, Wayne Jeremy ;
Kunua, Paul ;
Mae, Ernest ;
Mike, Michael ;
Noonan, Caitlin Marie ;
Totorea, Priscilla ;
Villar Uribe, Manuela
A supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Firms are constantly managing uncertainties, including unexpected delays in the provision of a critical input that can slow down or halt the production...
This paper examines the drivers of fluctuations in global inflation, defined as a common factor across monthly headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation in G7 countries, over the past half-century....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10648Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Ha, Jongrim ;
Kose, Ayhan ;
Ohnsorge, Franziska Lieselotte
How does the misallocation of complementary public capital affect the spatial organization of economic activity? To answer this question, this paper endogenizes the government's decision to invest in the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10650Date: December 18, 2023Author:
Pérez-Sebastián, Fidel ;
Serrano Quintero, Rafael ;
Steinbuks, Jevgenijs
Often persons with disabilities are not even consulted about decisions that relate to or affect their lives. In line with the philosophy of the disability rights movement, which is built on the principle...
Type: ReportReport#: 186522Date: December 18, 2023Author:
World Bank
Coaching is used in 90 percent of economic inclusion programs and is increasingly seen as a critical component of such interventions (Andrews et al. 2021). It is a cross-cutting element in economic inclusion...
This note introduces the 12th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP). Shared prosperity, defined as the growth in per capita household income or consumption of the poorest 40 percent...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186517Date: December 15, 2023Author:
Aron, Danielle Victoria ;
Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ;
Haddad, Cameron Nadim ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Sabatino Gonzalez, Carlos Gerardo ;
Wu, Haoyu
This note presents the 6th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, based on country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of November 2023. The MPM captures...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186518Date: December 15, 2023Author:
Aron, Danielle Victoria ;
Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ;
Haddad, Cameron Nadim ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Sabatino Gonzalez, Carlos Gerardo ;
Wu, Haoyu
Correctly pricing private vehicles and their use is paramount to building sustainable, safe, and equitable transportation systems. However, determining the “right” price – the combination of taxes on vehicle...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10647Date: December 15, 2023Author:
He, He ;
Kim, Chaeyoung
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