The Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL)
joined forces with emerging market intelligence firm Briter
Bridges to explore Africa’s gender gap in start-up financing
and its...
Type: BriefReport#: 165102Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Africa Gender Innovation Lab
Relative to other countries in the
region, Sri Lanka has invested modestly on nutrition
programs and interventions. Current nutrition programs in
Sri Lanka need to be...
Nepal reports better nutrition
indicators than the South Asian average, though significant
geographic and income-related inequalities remain in
relation to nutrition...
Type: BriefReport#: 166207Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Medici,Andre C. ;
Ghimire,Mamata ;
Bhattarai,Manav
Overall nutrition-specific expenditure
in Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka remains low, although
substantial variation exists among these countries. Given
the high...
Type: BriefReport#: 166209Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Andersen,Christopher Thomas ;
Cain,Jewelwayne Salcedo ;
Chaudhery,Deepika Nayar ;
Higashi,Hideki ;
Tandon,Ajay
Low take-up of job offers and high early
turnover continue to affect employment of Ethiopia’s female
factory workers. Despite starting factory work around the
onset...
Type: BriefReport#: 169006Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Ajayi,Kehinde Funmilola ;
Buehren,Niklas ;
Cassidy,Rachel Margaret ;
Salcher,Isabelle
The Africa, Caribbean, Pacific-European
Union Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (ACP-EU NDRR) Program,
which was launched in October 2011, is an initiative of the
Organisation...
The latest national poverty rates show
an increase in absolute poverty from 25.2 percent in 2019 to
26.8 percent in 2020. The increase in poverty is largely
attributable...
Type: BriefReport#: 172969Date: October 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
At the beginning of the 20th century
less than 15 percent of people across the globe lived in
cities. This figure has risen to 50 percent (4.4 billion
people) today...
Type: BriefReport#: 165233Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Rose Innes,Cleo Elize ;
Casabianca,Brian A.
This is a tip sheet for World Bank task
teams on Illustrative Climate Change Actions on Adaptation
Opportunities in Health Nutrition and Population Projects.
The ultimate objective of gender
analysis is to inform programs and policies that contribute
to closing persistent gaps. However, the specific impact of
gender analysis...
Type: BriefReport#: 164877Date: October 1, 2021Author:
De Paz Nieves,Carmen ;
Muller,Miriam
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