This brief presents the main findings of
a large national analysis of determinants of CD4 immune
recovery among individuals on antiretroviral therapy in
South Africa....
Led by the Ministry of Commerce, Trade,
and Industry, Zambia undertook a trade-facilitation needs
assessment of its alignment with the articles of the World
Trade Organization...
Type: BriefReport#: 113171Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Nuamah,Peter ;
Cichocki, Joe
The System Enhancement for Health Action
in Transition (SEHAT) Program, under the Ministry of Public
Health, supports the provision and improvement of a basic
package...
Type: BriefReport#: 178930Date: November 1, 2016Author:
World Bank
This activity snapshop brief promoting
innovation in agricultural insurance in South Asia with the
World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF),
in collaboration...
Many microfinance institutions (MFIs)
have actively embraced the potential of agent banking and
rapidly developed and implemented their own agent banking
models, with...
Type: BriefReport#: 128210Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Denyes,Lesley Sarah ;
Tar,Marie-Sophie ;
Siedek,Hannah Philippa Maria
The sector is in the process of
repositioning itselftoward the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs).Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
theinternational focus...
This report analyzes data for the feed
the future Nigeria livelihoods project impact evaluation
baseline survey. The baseline survey was completed before
the start of...
Type: BriefReport#: 119680Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Papineni,Sreelakshmi ;
Bastian,Gautam Gustav ;
Osinibi,Olubunkola Olufunmilyao
This brief draws from the health
financing system assessment (HFSA), which is a diagnostic
assessment protocol aimed at identifying critical
constraints and opportunities...
This brief is on the Mining
Infrastructure Investment Support (MINIS) Project, which
provides technical assistance to help Mongolia build its
capacity to apply international...
Type: BriefReport#: 180902Date: October 27, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief is a summary of the World
Bank’s latest Sri Lanka Development Update, a
half-yearly report on the Sri Lankan economy and its
prospects. It finds that...
Type: BriefReport#: 179352Date: October 27, 2016Author:
World Bank
Doctors at a hospital in Herat city
carried out the country’s first kidney transplant
after a series of training sessions in the diagnosis and
treatment of renal...
Type: BriefReport#: 178929Date: October 26, 2016Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the Kenya
Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project supports
smallholder farmers through new technologies, improved
market access and...
The historic Paris Agreement, reached at
COP21 in December 2015, calls on the world to keep global
temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees
Celsius above...
A research station in Herat Province is
successfully contributing to ongoing research to improve and
sustain seed production, which will result in high-yielding,
hardier...
Type: BriefReport#: 179146Date: October 19, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses on Chevano Baker, a
young Jamaican enrolled at the prestigious University of
Birmingham, UK, to pursue a Master’s degree in
Financial Economics,...
Type: BriefReport#: 179587Date: October 13, 2016Author:
World Bank
This story highlights the World Bank is
working to build a food system that can feed everyone, every
day with a safe and nutritious diet, delivered in a
sustainable...
This brief focuses on the Rural
Electrification and Renewable Energy Development II (RERED
II) project, which is providing solar power to growing
numbers of rural homes...
Type: BriefReport#: 179351Date: October 12, 2016Author:
World Bank
Every year, two million youths enter the
job market in Bangladesh. An increasingly skilled labor
force is vital to accelerate economic growth. Through the
Skills and...
Type: BriefReport#: 179123Date: October 11, 2016Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable
countries to flooding and climate change impacts. The
Community Climate Change Project is one of a group of
initiatives in Bangladesh...
Type: BriefReport#: 179047Date: October 11, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses on the
Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Project, which was
launched on September 25th at a ceremony attended by over
400 representatives from...
Type: BriefReport#: 179033Date: October 10, 2016Author:
World Bank
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