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WASHINGTON, March 18, 2020—The World Bank launched today an online database that convenes unique data on different countries’ procurement laws, systems, and performances across the world.The Global Public Procurement Database (GPPD) is a-first-of-its-kind knowledge product that makes public procurement information from 218 countries and territories available to practitioners, government ...

Financial Inclusion on the Rise, But Gaps Remain, Global Findex Database Shows. 515 Million Adults Have Opened Accounts Since 2014. WASHINGTON, April 19, 2018 —Financial inclusion is on the rise globally, accelerated by mobile phones and the internet, but gains have been uneven across countries. A new World Bank report on the use of financial ...

Green bonds are financial instruments that finance green projects and provide investors with regular or fixed income payments. Over the last 14 years, green bonds have become an important tool to address the impacts of climate change and related challenges. Clean water and food security are at risk in the world today and about 1 million of the ...

Photo: Chhor Sokunthea / World Bank. Five billion people—two thirds of world population—lack access to safe and affordable surgical, obstetric and anesthesia care with low and middle income countries (LMICs) taking a lead. 1-3 Surgical care is a crucial component of building strong health systems and one that is often overlooked (Dr. Jim Kim UHC 2017 video).

The source for the domestic credit data is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s International Financial Statistics Database. The IMF is soon planning to issue a combined Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Monetary and Financial Statistics Compilation Guide aligned to the 2008 System of National Accounts and the sixth edition of the ...

According to the report Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies: Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program, the size of the global economy was nearly $120 trillion in 2017 measured by the new PPPs, and over half of total economic activity was in low- and middle-income economies.

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2022 — As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70% of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text, according to a new report published today by the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF ...

The technological revolution, and the accelerated adoption of digital solutions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, are transforming access to finance. As this edition of the Global Findex database shows, 71 percent of adults in developing economies now have a formal financial account, compared to 42 percent a decade ago when the first edition of the database was published.

Es así como surge Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD), la primera base de datos pública sobre los flujos de comercio, basada en empresas exportadoras y recopilada por el Banco Mundial. La EDD recoge informaciones sobre empresas de 70 países -tanto los desarrollados como los que están en desarrollo-, y abarca áreas como número y tamaño ...

Improved groundwater management is crucial for a health, wealthy, and green Pakistan. Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System is the largest artificial groundwater recharge system in the world, but the current water management paradigm doesn’t it. Over-abstraction, waterlogging and contamination threaten the crucial role of groundwater as a life-sustaining resource, which has cascading ...