With the support of the Global Facility
for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDDR) through the
Canada-Caribbean Resilience Facility (CRF), the World Bank’s
Governance...
Type: BriefReport#: 171640Date: May 19, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Umbrella Facility for Poverty and
Equity (UFPE) is a new global partnership to inform and
support the design, implementation, monitoring, and
evaluation of policies...
Type: BriefReport#: 171639Date: May 19, 2022Author:
World Bank
Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7)
aims to ensure access to modern energy for all by 2030.
Reaching the goal depends on ramping up electrification
efforts. Most...
Building on the success of the past two
global workshops on private sector finance, the World
Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)
and BioCarbon Fund...
Type: BriefReport#: 188610Date: May 12, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery’s (GFDRR) Partnership Days event,
which was held online from February 23 to 24, 2022, was the
first of its kind....
Type: BriefReport#: 171218Date: May 11, 2022Author:
World Bank
In August of 2017, Rohingya refugees
fled from Myanmar to escape violence and arrived in the
district of Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh. Within a
period of 4 months,...
Type: BriefReport#: 169934Date: May 11, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic caused massive disruption in education systems
around the world. Countries were forced to swiftly implement
remote learning...
Type: BriefReport#: 171034Date: May 10, 2022Author:
World Bank
In-depth analysis of the challenges and
opportunities that lie at the nexus of disaster risk
management (DRM) and fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV)
risks has been...
Type: BriefReport#: 171196Date: May 5, 2022Author:
World Bank
Increasing agricultural productivity and
investment is critical to reducing poverty, particularly in
Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture remains the dominant
income-generating...
Type: BriefReport#: 172232Date: May 1, 2022Author:
Donald,Aletheia Amalia ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Rouanet,Lea Marie
Vietnam's recovery is gaining
momentum. However, the authorities should be vigilant about
inflation and heightened risks of weaker global demand and
supply disruptions...
Type: BriefReport#: 171409Date: April 30, 2022Author:
World Bank
Most social protection and jobs (SPJ)
interventions have a behavior change dimension. As such,
understanding social norms, and to what extent they drive
the behaviors...
Type: BriefReport#: 176766Date: April 30, 2022Author:
World Bank
This brief examines more than thirty
years of legal reform aimed at removing husbands’
marital power at the expense of their wives from South
African legislation....
Africa is the only region where women
are more likely to be entrepreneurs than men; yet, on
average, female-owned businesses in this region earn 30
percent less than...
Type: BriefReport#: 171016Date: April 28, 2022Author:
Gesund Forero,Jessica
In 2021, Morocco’s economy rebounded due
to a strong agricultural output, solid exports and
remittances, supportive macroeconomic policies, and
significant progress...
Type: BriefReport#: 170715Date: April 27, 2022Author:
World Bank
Rwanda’s economy grew at around 11
percent in 2021, as targeted measures helped economic
activities to effectively navigate the pandemic. The twin
deficits remained—requiring...
Type: BriefReport#: 170910Date: April 26, 2022Author:
World Bank
All children should be able to read by
age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child
progresses through school, and conversely, an inability to
read constrains...
Type: BriefReport#: 160779Date: April 25, 2022Author:
World Bank, UNESCO
In Cambodia, under the baseline
scenario, the growth projection for 2022 remains at 4.5
percent, as a stronger domestic recovery supported by the
rollback of mobility...
Type: BriefReport#: 170583Date: April 22, 2022Author:
World Bank
North Macedonia Nowcasting Release: 2022
Q1 (April update) Tracking economic activity in real time is
a difficult task for forecasters due to data publication
lags,...
Type: BriefReport#: 170813Date: April 22, 2022Author:
World Bank
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