• Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 14, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: the Ministry of Manpower is planning to issue a regulation...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142792 Date: January 14, 2019
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 11, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: the government plans to sell retail bonds amounting IDR 80...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142790 Date: January 11, 2019
  • Indonesia Economic Week in Review : January 7 - 11, 2019
    The Jakarta Composite Index rose by 1.4 percent over the week, in line with major markets in the region. The Rupiah appreciated against US dollar, Euro and Japanese...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142807 Date: January 11, 2019
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 10, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: the Financial Services Authority lowers the minimum down...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142789 Date: January 10, 2019
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 9, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: bank Indonesia reported that the Consumer Confidence Index...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142788 Date: January 9, 2019
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 8, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: starting from 2 January 2019, Bank Indonesia no longer publishes...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142787 Date: January 8, 2019
  • Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond - An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets
    Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting...
    Type: Brief Report#: 133876 Date: January 8, 2019 Author: Ramachandran,Vijay ; Gelb,Alan Harold ; Buehler,Martin Reto
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 7, 2019 contains economic highlights, including: Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recorded a year-on-year inflation...
    Type: Brief Report#: 142786 Date: January 7, 2019
  • EFI Tip Sheet : Maximizing Climate Co-benefits in POV Operations
    Climate change affects what the World Bank does as a development institution. Rising temperatures, increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and changing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 170252 Date: January 1, 2019 Author: World Bank
  • Different Approaches to Carbon Crediting
    There are various approaches to credit a country for its achievements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These approaches are called mitigation activities. If they...
    Type: Brief Report#: 134104 Date: January 1, 2019
  • Tanzania - Investing in Water and Sanitation Reaps Benefits for Poverty Alleviation
    The Water Sector Support Project supported the government of Tanzania’s Water Sector Development Program to increase water access to both urban and rural residents....
    Type: Brief Report#: 135437 Date: January 1, 2019
  • Over-Enrollment in the Early Grades
    In this short note, we summarize findings from a forthcoming analysis for 39 countries with unusually large over-enrollment in the early primary grades. We investigate...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135149 Date: January 1, 2019 Author: Crouch,Luis A. ; Merseth,Katherine ; Devercelli,Amanda Epstein ; Choi,Min Ju ; Denboba,Amina Debissa ; Gurgel,Anita Amaral
  • Honduras - Modernizing the Water and Sanitation Sector Builds Resilience
    By decentralizing nine water and sanitation utilities, Honduras significantly modernized its water sector, improving water services for approximately 108,000 families...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135433 Date: January 1, 2019
  • Knowledge Exchanges on Integrated Urban Water Management Briefing Note 1 - January 2019
    This note describes the outcomes of a June 2018 knowledge exchange visit to study urban water management and urban renewal experiences in Brazil. Participants included...
    Type: Brief Report#: 134709 Date: January 1, 2019
  • Digital Technology in Forced Displacement Settings : Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Case Studies
    A wide range of new technologies are progressively being used for data collection, project planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation in forced displacement...
    Type: Brief Report#: 141224 Date: January 1, 2019 Author: Carrette,Sheila Johanna ; Hasumi,Takahiro
  • Women and Insurance : The Next Frontier
    The mission of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. The journey out of poverty is never...
    Type: Brief Report#: 122319 Date: January 1, 2019 Author: Holliday,Susan Claire ; Dassanou,Marieme Esther
  • Disability in Water : Brief for Task Teams
    Though they may be invisible in the community, persons with disabilities live in every country. In fact, more than one billion people worldwide have some form of disability,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 133987 Date: January 1, 2019
  • China - Sustainable Land and Water Management within Xining Municipality
    With a participatory and watershed-wide approach, the Xining Flood and Watershed Management Project helped China to improve social protection, build livelihood skills,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135442 Date: January 1, 2019
  • India - Strengthening Irrigation Efficiency and Water Productivity
    The World Bank-supported Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Community-Based Management (APCBTM) project (2007–2016) in India benefited 605,052 people by strengthening...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135444 Date: January 1, 2019
  • Tanzania and Implementation of East Africa Mutual Recognition of Veterinary Medicines
    Tanzania has the third largest livestock population in Africa (after Ethiopia and Sudan), but the competitiveness of Tanzania’s livestock sector faces many challenges,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135603 Date: January 1, 2019 Author: Baregu,Solomon Simon ; Wigenge,Raymond Nicholaus ; Shrader,Hans ; Thendiu,Isaac Njoro
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