Between 1950 and 2000, Namibia saw
substantial gains in life expectancy at birth, boosted by a
decline in infant and child mortality of approximately 70
percent. As...
Ethiopia suffers from a long history of
drought due to increasing dependency on rain-fed agriculture
and years of extremely poor rainfall. The aftermath of
drought weighs...
Type: BriefReport#: 103262Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
This guidance note, about Energy service
companies (ESCO), was prepared under the Energy Efficiency
Outreach activity of the World Bank’s Europe and Central
Asia region....
Type: BriefReport#: 103932Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Hofer,Kathrin ;
Limaye,Dilip R. ;
Singh,Jas
The 17 West and Central African
countries in OHADA (Organization for Harmonization of
Business Law in Africa) are proving that collective action
is an effective way...
Type: BriefReport#: 102792Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Nosal,Leah Christine ;
Saltane,Valentina
This knowledge note promots the equity
and shared prosperity calls for a closer look at the working
and living conditions of millions of mine workers in Africa,
where...
Type: BriefReport#: 112435Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Bocoum,Brigitte Marie Khadidja
The Francophone Africa education results
monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical
assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa
program...
The Francophone Africa education results
monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical
assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa
program...
The Francophone Africa education results
monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical
assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa
program...
Agriculture is the economic backbone of
Nepal. It contributes more than a third of the country’s
gross domestic product and is the primary—and often the
only—source...
The Kenya climate innovation center
(KCIC), launched in Nairobi in September 2012, was the first
climate innovation center (CIC) to be established by the
World Bank...
Type: BriefReport#: 115292Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Lee, Jin ;
Ehst,Michael ;
Zheng,Xue ;
Theuri, Martin
The Francophone Africa education results
monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical
assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa
program...
The Francophone Africa education results
monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical
assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa
program...
Using survey data on informal firms in
Myanmar, a number of issues related to
firm-size,productivity, business environment, gender
disparity and registration costs and...
Type: BriefReport#: 111251Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Amin,Mohammad
Two Chinese high-speed rail (HSR)
projects supported by World Bank loans - the
Nanning-Guangzhou (Nanguang) and Guiyang-Guangzhou
(Guiguang) - began operations in late...
Type: BriefReport#: 102815Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Zhou,Nanyan ;
Bullock,Richard G. ;
Jin,Ying ;
Lawrence,Martha B. ;
Ollivier,Gerald Paul
In the Philippines, only 71 percent of
the rural population or approximately 72 million people have
access to safe or improved sanitation. This leaves around 10
million...
Type: BriefReport#: 104129Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Galing,Edkarl M. ;
Gabe,Vida Zorah S.
Water policies and investments in the
agricultural water sector involve complex tradeoffs.
Essential to understanding the choices that need to be made,
is an analysis...
Type: BriefReport#: 103539Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kuriakose,Anne T. ;
Ahlers, Rhodante
Nepal is highly vulnerable to natural
hazards, including earthquakes. In April and May 2015, two
high magnitude earthquakes rocked the Kathmandu Valley,
claiming nearly...
Type: BriefReport#: 103264Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region has been affected by 388 disasters in the past 35
years. The number of natural disaster in the region has
nearly tripled...
Type: BriefReport#: 103270Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
This guidance note is about a recent
mining boom in Odisha, that accelerated and diversified
economic growth in the Indian state. However, the boom did
not reduce poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 103934Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kannan,Sridar Padmanabhan ;
Peter Van Der Veen
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