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The Global Findex database facilitates a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the financial behavior of adults worldwide. With the release of future rounds, the data can be used to evaluate the expansion of bank agents and mobile money, as well as the impacts of other country-level financial inclusion reforms. ...

Manila, April 5, 2016 - The National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) also known as Listahanan today unveiled an updated database of the poor in the country from the government’s latest round of assessments in 2015.. Secretary Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led the launch that convened over 300 members of ...

Our database provides a reasonable estimate of the returns to education that may be useful for a variety of empirical work. The dataset compares favorably with other compilations, for example, the compilation of studies by Psacharopoulos and Patrinos (2018). One interesting finding is that our new dataset shows less of a decline over time than ...

The digitization of business registries tends to be associated with the level of economic development (Figure 1). Among the online features developed by business registries, electronic database to search all company records appeared to be more widespread across all 191 economies studied in 2020. However, sharp differences were observed across ...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2016—Global private infrastructure investment in 2015 mostly remained steady at $111.6 billion when compared to the previous year, according to new data from the World Bank Group’s Private Participation in Infrastructure Database.Solar energy investments climbed 72 percent higher than the last five year average, while renewables attracted nearly two-thirds of ...

Using the latest high-resolution flood hazard and population maps, as well as poverty estimates from the World Bank’s Global Subnational Atlas of Poverty and Global Monitoring Database, we estimate that 1.47 billion people globally are directly exposed to the risk of intense flooding — over a third of them, almost 600 million, are poor. 1.

The database will be re-organized around a clear taxonomy. The guide will be re-oriented as a reference to existing tools and resources, including country experience. The measurement and information stream will finalize the fact sheets and resource guide. The products will be ready by late summer/early fall.

Source: Women, Business and the Law database. Aimed at increasing the amount of leave available to both parents and at redistributing childcare responsibilities between men and women, the European Union passed a new directive that tries to address the imbalance in the design of work-life balance policies between women and men that reinforce gender stereotypes and differences between work and care.

A database for better digital platforms. Our conclusion is that much more cross-country collaboration on antitrust in the digital economy is needed. Competition authorities in lower-income countries should work with more mature authorities to learn from their experiences with platform business models.

The report argues that the future of these oceanic sectors relies on the health of the natural assets – marine and coastal ecosystems. Here are four proposed key strategies to ensure a sustainable transition to a blue economy in Indonesia: 1. Improved management of marine and coastal assets (fisheries, mangroves, reefs)