https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/05/21/gaza-economy-on-the-verge-of-collapse
Unemployment in Gaza is the highest in the world at 43 percent. Even more alarming is the situation of youth unemployment which soared to more than 60 percent by the end of 2014. “Gaza’s unemployment and poverty figures are very troubling and the economic outlook is worrying. The current market in Gaza is not able to offer jobs leaving a ...
https://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/MNA/Factsheet_Gaza_ENG.pdf
The Gaza Economy: Economic activity in Gaza remains volatile and almost entirely dependent on aid and remittances, with growth rates determined by (i) the level of aid inflows and (ii) the degree of trade restrictions. Gaza’s final consumption is 1.6 times larger than GDP, and its investment a mere 5 percent of
https://genderdata.worldbank.org/countries/west-bank-and-gaza/
In West Bank and Gaza, the labor force participation rate among females is 18.2% and among males is 70.1% for 2019. The labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15 and older that is economically active. Since 1990, female labor force participation has increased.
https://www.doingbusiness.org/content/dam/doingBusiness/country/w/west-bank-and-gaza/WBG.pdf
West Bank and Gaza Region Middle East & North Africa Income Category Lower middle income Population 4,569,087 City Covered Ramallah 117 DB RANK DB SCORE 60.0 Rankings on Doing Business topics - West Bank and Gaza 173 148 86 91 25 114 112 54 123 168 Starting a Business Dealing with Construction Permits Getting Electricity Registering Property ...
Gaza’s recovery was slower given the May 2021 conflict. Despite the economic recovery, the management of fiscal policies remained challenging as the size of the deficit before aid reached US$1.26 billion while aid hit a record low of only US$317 million in 2021. Consequently, the PA had to rely on domestic resources to finance its needs and ...
It builds on the first Groundswell report from 2018, which covered Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Taken together, projections across all the regions out to 2050 find that: Sub-Saharan Africa could see as many as 86 million internal climate migrants; East Asia and the Pacific, 49 million; South Asia, 40 million; North Africa ...
WASHINGTON, August 30, 2021—The World Bank today approved $103.4 million for Ghana to reverse land degradation and strengthen integrated natural resource management in about 3 million hectares of degraded landscapes, working with communities of the Northern Savannah Zone and the cocoa forest landscape. The cost of environmental degradation in Ghana due to unsustainable use of land for ...
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2022 — Officially recorded remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are expected to increase by 4.2 percent this year to reach $630 billion. This follows an almost record recovery of 8.6 percent in 2021, according to the World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief released today.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/water/publication/wash-poverty-diagnostic
This initiative, the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic, encompasses 18 countries, ranging from fragile and conflict-affected states to middle-income countries. Over the past three years, it has assessed the relationship of poverty, time, physical space and social space with drinking water, sanitation and hygiene ...
An ILO report noted that the Caribbean is a world leader in terms of the share of women managers. Over 40 per cent of all managers are women in eight out of 11 countries in the region. At the time, Jamaica reported the highest proportion of women managers in the world at 59 per cent. However, while there is progress, women do continue to face ...