Afghanistan’s parliament approved the
budget for FY1400 on February 22. The initial executive
budget proposal underwent extensive review by the national
assembly over...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong
impact on the livelihoods of Kenyan households, even though
employment and income levels are slowly recovering.
Nevertheless,...
Type: BriefReport#: 157961Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Delius,Antonia Johanna Sophie ;
Khandelwal,Ritika ;
Gupta,Rhea ;
Haynes,Alastair Peter Francis
Established in 1910 in Manila, Insular
Life (known as InLife) is a leading life insurer in the
Philippines, and also operates a health maintenance
organization, InLife...
Type: BriefReport#: 159092Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Fall Epouse Giwa,Fatou Mbodj ;
Sherchan,Prapti ;
Ebrahimi,Sarah Anne ;
Diop,Fatim
The first-round survey was conducted
from June 20 to July 16, 2020, when Lao PDR had just exited
the nationwide lockdown. The second-round survey was
conducted from...
These updates offer in-depth data on
performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World
Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a
breakdown...
Type: BriefReport#: 154618Date: March 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
These updates offer in-depth data on
performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World
Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a
breakdown...
Type: BriefReport#: 154618Date: March 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
These updates offer in-depth data on
performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World
Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a
breakdown...
Type: BriefReport#: 154618Date: March 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
Student learning assessment (SLA) is a
tool that measures primary grade 1 to 6 reading and
mathematics competencies in Bahasa Indonesia. The tool was
developed to evaluate...
The City Resilience Program (CRP) was
instrumental in strengthening the World Bank’s National
Urban Cadaster and Municipal Support Project. The project
strengthens urban...
Type: BriefReport#: 170434Date: February 28, 2021Author:
World Bank
The Engaging Policymakers in Early
Childhood Program has been designed to be responsive to
policymakers’ priorities and offer topics that
will support the delivery...
Type: BriefReport#: 182649Date: February 28, 2021Author:
World Bank
To track the impacts of the COVID-19
crisis on labor markets and household coping strategies, a
rapid phone survey was implemented on a representative
sample of households...
The weather enterprise must continue to
innovate and expand to keep people safe from disruptive
weather, and to keep up with the demand for weather
intelligence for...
Type: BriefReport#: 157030Date: February 25, 2021Author:
Rogers,David P. ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Md Kootval,Haleh Kootval ;
Suwa,Makoto
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
brought forward an unprecedented economic contraction.
Recessions, in turn, have typically been accompanied by an
increase in the...
The High-Frequency Phone Survey for
refugees in Uganda (URHFPS) tracks the socioeconomic impacts
of COVID-19 on refugees. The World Bank (WB) in
collaboration with the...
The safe planning, design, and
management of the world’s dams contributes to securing water
for people and production, while safeguarding life,
property, and the environment....
Global water management must transform
to meet the challenges of the present and the future.
Climate change has made the water cycle far less predictable
- and water...
This report provides climate change and
water scarcity infographic. In 2020, the World Bank Group
(WBG) committed billions to climate-related investments,
surpassing...
Supplies of diagnostic tests for
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus),
are still limited in many countries, and there is
uncertainty about how to...
Type: BriefReport#: 156888Date: February 23, 2021Author:
Reed,Tristan ;
Waites,William ;
Manheim,David ;
De Walque,Damien B. C. M. ;
Vallini,Chiara ;
Gatti,Roberta V. ;
Hallett,Timothy B.
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.
