Green Small and Growing Businesses
(SGBs) in South Africa often struggle to take full advantage
of local market opportunities and lack the global assets
required to...
As environmental challenges mount in
Kenya, including in the plastics waste sector, a growing
number of companies are seeking business opportunities in
green sectors....
Much of Liberia’s infrastructure to
generate, transmit, and distribute electric power was
destroyed during 15 years of civil conflict. At the time the
project was being...
Over the past decade, financial services
for the poor have undergone a dramatic transformation. For
years, financial institutions like banks and microfinance
institutions...
Type: BriefReport#: 129139Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Mattern,Max William ;
Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe
In 2015, Peru embarked on reforms to
attract more commercial financing for its public-private
partnership (PPPs) while reducing the need for government
guarantees to...
In Nepal, as in most developing
countries, population increase and rapid urbanization have
created challenges for effective and efficient solid waste
management (SWM)...
In Ghana, output-based aid (OBA) was
used to improve affordability for households in
crowdedlow-income areas of the Greater Accra Metropolitan
Area (GAMA) to invest...
Type: BriefReport#: 139623Date: June 1, 2018Author:
GPRBA
The last Household and Income
Expenditure Survey (HIES) was conducted in Papua New Guinea
in 2009—2010, with the previous round conducted in 1996.
Poverty, as measured...
Using the 2011 Public-Private
Partnerships (PPP) USD 3.20 per person per day international
poverty line for lower middle income countries, poverty in
Tonga was 8.9...
Government interventions to lower
interest rates and expand credit to the rural sector are
common in developing countries. Some of these policies, like
interest rate...
To support the growth of sustainable
capital flows, IFC’s advisory services seek to influence,
support, and enable capital market stakeholders to better
integrate environmental,...
It is very difficult to analyze poverty
trends in Kiribati due to the infrequency of data
collection. The most recent Household Income and
Expenditure Survey (HIES)...
Zambia is a lower middle-income country
that has made significant socioeconomic progress over the
past decade, with economic growth averaging 5.7 percent and
2011 per...
Cote d’Ivoire’s cashew subsector has
strong potential for growth if the value chain, and
especially local processing, can improve. A new World Bank
project, the largest...
Type: BriefReport#: 127329Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Ehui,Simeon Kacou
Like many countries in the Pacific
region, the Solomon Islands suffers from infrequent
collection of data and a lack of comparability between
rounds. Using the international...
Poverty monitoring in the Federated
States of Micronesia (FSM) is complicated by irregular data
collection. According to the latest Household Income and
Expenditure...
Output-based aid (OBA) is helping
low-income households in rural Bangladesh access
microloansto invest in hygienic sanitation facilities. The
OBA grant subsidizes the...
Type: BriefReport#: 139620Date: June 1, 2018Author:
GPRBA
An epidemiological transition is well
underway in India, in common with countries throughout much
of the developing world. The transition refers to a change
in the prevailing...
There is general recognition across
stakeholders in Armenia that the e-health system can
facilitate exchange of clinical and non-clinical
information, transparency and...
The Chinese government, based on its
commitment to carbon reduction in the Paris Climate
Agreement,laid out its intention to achieve peak CO₂
emissions by 2030, and...
Type: BriefReport#: 130019Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Zhou,Weimin
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