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In Gaza, the conflict damaged various core physical and digital infrastructure assets, particularly buildings, hospitals and health centers, water and sanitation facilities, and transport, energy and communications networks. Exacerbated by previous trauma, this renewed round of violence having a particularly serious impact on children’s ...
Challenge. Charitable organizations had emerged in West Bank and Gaza (WB&G) at the turn of the 20 th century and since the 1960s, have provided a variety of essential social services, including health, agriculture, mental health, education, environment and services for people with special needs and so on, in the absence of a state. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)/community-based ...
29 percent in 2017. This, however, masks a substantial divergence in trends between Gaza and the West Bank. During the same period, the poverty rate in the West Bank declined from 18 to 14 percent, while poverty in Gaza increased dramatically from 39 to 53 percent leaving every second Gazan below the national poverty line. 2.
external restrictions on Gaza resulted in a closed economy. e most recent available data shows that since 1994, Gaza’s compounded annual growth rate was only 1 percent, resulting in a dramatic decline of the contribution of Gaza’s economy to the Palestinian economy from 36 percent in 1994 to 18 percent currently.
Digital financial services are still in their infancy in the West Bank and Gaza. Backed by the necessary regulatory advances, such services could become an important tool to increase the level and depth of access to financial services for Palestinians. Financial sector actors would benefit from the creation of a robust ecosystem for DFS that ...
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.FGMS.ZS?locations=PS
Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male population)
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/business-enabling-environment/bee
The World Bank Group is developing a new project to measure the business enabling environment in economies worldwide. Details on the new project will be provided here as they become available. If you would like to stay updated, please sign up for the newsletter or contact bee@worldbank.org. The consultations on BEE project's Pre-concept Note ...
How COVID-19 is Affecting Companies Around the World. Almost a year into the pandemic, nearly every business in the world has been affected by COVID-19, but performance has varied widely, even within countries and industries. Data collected through the World Bank firm surveys offer some glimpses into why, and how this may be relevant for policy.
https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/reports/global-reports/doing-business-2020
Overview. Doing Business 2020, a World Bank Group flagship publication, is the 17 th in a series of annual studies measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.
This means that, under Article 6, a country (or countries) will be able to transfer carbon credits earned from the reduction of GHG emissions to help one or more countries meet climate targets. Within Article 6, Article 6.2 creates the basis for trading in GHG emission reductions (or “mitigation outcomes”) across countries.