The following document is an Executive
Summary of the “Survivor-centered Accessibility
Framework Evaluation” (SAFE) report, supported by
the State and...
Type: BriefReport#: 186633Date: May 17, 2024Author:
Aguilera De Llano,Ana Isabel ;
Arango,Diana Jimena ;
Contreras Urbina,Juan Manuel
Established in 2014, the World Bank
Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub was launched in
acknowledgement of the learning emerging from the 2011 Great
East Japan...
Type: BriefReport#: 190257Date: May 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This course has been commissioned
explicitly to examine three areas of occupational safety,
occupational health, and violence and harassment from the
perspective of...
Type: BriefReport#: 190177Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
The economy slowed more than expected
due to sluggish external demand and delayed budget approval.
Expanding private consumption and tourism continued to drive
services...
Type: BriefReport#: 190150Date: May 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
Government of Egypt does not have a
common approach to managing various insurance mandates for
the informal workers holistically. Income tax, health
insurance (HI) and...
Type: BriefReport#: 191928Date: May 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Senegal has a population of
approximately 18 million people, with almost half of its
citizens living in urban areas, well ahead of the
Sub-Saharan average. The vulnerability...
Type: BriefReport#: 189801Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The ongoing conflict in Yemen is
estimated to have led to the loss of around 377,000 lives by
2022, out of a total population of 33.7 million. 3.4 million
people need...
Type: BriefReport#: 189800Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Pakistani children have faced nationwide
and severe disruptions to their schooling over the past
several years, first due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then
the 2022...
Type: BriefReport#: 190701Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Isa, Sana ;
D Angelo,Sophia Marie ;
Baron,Juan
This note summarizes a systematic
approach developed in 2021-2023 by the Social Sustainability
and Inclusion (SSI) team of the Ghana Country Management
Unit (CMU) to...
Type: BriefReport#: 189998Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Okereke,Nneka ;
Nordenmark Severinsson,Anna Kristina Elisabet ;
Darimani,Abdulai
This Ukraine human development update
summarizes the cumulative effects of Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine, provides an overview of World Bank
support, and synthesizes...
Type: BriefReport#: 190953Date: May 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Live Wire assesses the extent of
concessional financing needed to bring to zero the
incremental costs of power sector decarbonization in select
low- and middle...
Type: BriefReport#: 191678Date: May 1, 2024Author:
De Sa Ferreira,Rafael ;
Inon,Javier Gustavo ;
Dougherty,Patrick Ryan ;
Remy,Tom
Across the globe countries are looking
to cut greenhouse gas emissions to reach carbon neutrality
and combat climate change. But doing so can be complicated.
Countries...
Type: BriefReport#: 190933Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Safarov,Maksudjon ;
Smith,Jason James
In the long term, both energy security
and decarbonization in the region will depend on substantial
increases in national climate ambitions. Achieving those
increases...
Type: BriefReport#: 190932Date: May 1, 2024Author:
Doczi,Szilvia ;
Losz,Akos ;
Kanudia,Amit ;
Mayer,Armin Michael ;
Bobur Kodjaev ;
Akcura,Elcin ;
Toth,Peter ;
Malischek,Raimund Alexander Viktor ;
De Miglio,Rocco ;
Keskes,Tarek
Industrial production showed a
significant increase, with the Index of Industrial
Production (IIP) growing by 2.6 percent month-on-month (m/m)
and 8.9 percent year-on-year...
Type: BriefReport#: 191411Date: May 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Learning Poverty: A World Bank-UNESCO
Institute of Statistics (UIS) Indicator to Highlight the
Learning Crisis Learning Poverty is unacceptably high. In
low- and middle-income...
Type: BriefReport#: 191965Date: April 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Learning Poverty is unacceptably high.
In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the
children cannot read and understand a short ageappropriate
text by the...
Type: BriefReport#: 191961Date: April 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The index of industrial production (IIP)
expanded moderately, registering 0.47 percent (m/m, SA) in
April 2024 compared to 0.02 percent (m/m, SA) in March.
Compared...
Type: BriefReport#: 190529Date: April 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Kazakhstan has achieved large reductions
in poverty over the past two decades. Both national poverty
estimates and internationally comparable poverty rates
defined as...
Type: BriefReport#: 192163Date: April 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Uzbekistan has made notable progress in
reducing poverty since 2021. The poverty headcount rate
based on the national poverty line fell from 17.0 percent in
2021 to...
Type: BriefReport#: 192160Date: April 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
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