: Reducing the impact of climate change
on poor and vulnerable households is essential to hastening
poverty reduction. In thinking about policies that do this,
it is...
Type: BriefReport#: 183824Date: July 5, 2023Author:
Brunckhorst,Ben James ;
Hill,Ruth ;
Mansuri,Ghazala ;
Nguyen,Trang Van ;
Miki Khanh Doan
Gig platforms can use work and earnings
data to provide meaningful financial services to underserved
gig workers. This brief highlights the experience of two
industry...
Type: BriefReport#: 183681Date: July 3, 2023Author:
Anand,Malika ;
Murthy,Gayatri Vikram
Although gig work platforms provide a
channel for offering financial services to underserved
workers, innovators are realizing that despite their digital
skills, the...
Type: BriefReport#: 183680Date: July 3, 2023Author:
Anand,Malika ;
Murthy,Gayatri Vikram
Psychology-based business trainings that
develop a proactive entrepreneurial mindset have been shown
to be more effective than traditional business training in
supporting...
Type: BriefReport#: 184276Date: July 1, 2023Author:
Hailemicheal,Adiam Hagos ;
Papineni,Sreelakshmi ;
Weis,Toni Johannes
In the most recent World Bank Enterprise
Survey, it was found that approximately 35 percent of
Tunisian firms identified an inadequately educated workforce
as a significant...
Type: BriefReport#: 183992Date: July 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
Many governments struggle with how to
efficiently, effectively, and equitably allocate medical
supplies and equipment. Medical supplies and equipment can
be expensive...
The World Bank’s South Asia
region gender innovation lab is conducting a systematic
review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or
indirect effects...
Type: BriefReport#: 184120Date: July 1, 2023Author:
Zahra,Najaf ;
Javed,Amna ;
Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria
As a result of healthy economic growth
and a strong commitment to strengthening human capital over
the past five years, Zanzibar has made significant progress
in the...
Type: BriefReport#: 184977Date: July 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has a history of effective
economic inclusion programs, but they are implemented
primarily by civil society organizations.
Government-implemented initiatives...
Type: BriefReport#: 184345Date: July 1, 2023Author:
Ahmed, S. Amer ;
Alaref,Jumana Jamal Subhi ;
Azam,Mehtab ;
Moqueet,Nazia Sultana ;
Saha,Jyotirmoy
The document collection focuses on an
assessment of growth-oriented, opportunity-driven,
women-owned enterprises in rural areas. It aims to identify
the characteristics...
This policy brief presents an update on
the state of unhappiness and depression in the Middle East
and North Africa (MENA) region during the COVID-19 pandemic
using...
Disasters triggered by climate and other
natural hazards are increasing in frequency, severity, and
duration worldwide. Disasters, whether from natural hazards
or man-made,...
Type: BriefReport#: 183668Date: June 30, 2023Author:
Casabonne,Ursula ;
Arango,Diana Jimena ;
Maruo,Mirai ;
Grossi,Ariana Maria Del Mar ;
Trohanis,Zoe Elena ;
Escobar Saenz,Mirtha Liliana ;
Stanley,Victoria ;
Limani,Arjola
This brief presents new data collected
by the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law
project on childcare legislation in 95 economies around the
world. It focuses...
Type: BriefReport#: 184134Date: June 30, 2023Author:
Sakhonchik,Alena ;
Elefante,Marina ;
Niesten,Hannelore Maria L.
Over the last 10 years, International
Finance Corporation (IFC) had a long-term cumulative
committed investments of US 26.1 billion dollars with U.S.
partners (of which...
Type: BriefReport#: 188297Date: June 30, 2023Author:
Earne,Julie Fawn ;
Lanza Ferrera,Jose Javier Fernando
Côte d’Ivoire
experienced almost a decade of macroeconomic stability prior
to the COVID pandemic, a trajectory that needs to be
sustained to achieve better...
Type: BriefReport#: 192267Date: June 30, 2023Author:
World Bank
This policy brief presents an update on
the state of domestic violence or otherviolence against
women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
duringthe COVID-19...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many
countries’ health systems. As countries work to
respond to the pandemic and simultaneously maintain other
essential health...
Type: BriefReport#: 186077Date: June 30, 2023Author:
World Bank
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