This story highlights entrepreneurship
education and training programs help address unemployment
and can foster innovation. Well-designed and implemented
programs cannot...
Protected areas are a bright spot in the
management of Madagascar’s natural resources, and play a
strategic role in the country’s economy and ability to
withstand extreme...
This story highlights around 89 million
youth, ages 12 to 24 years, are out of school in Sub-Saharan
Africa. A new World Bank report examines factors that lead
to 12-...
This story highlights aid targeting
gender equality has risen in recent years, contributing to
significant gains in health and education in many countries.
But aid aimed...
This story highlights world leaders
gather in Oslo to discuss the investments needed to bridge
massive education gaps in developing countries. New
high-level commission...
This story highlights transport accounts
for 29 percent of global multilateral development bank (MDB)
assistance, but only 0.4 percent of impact evaluations have
transport...
Lighting Asia and India is a
market-transformation program that works with companies to
develop the commercial market for modern off-grid solar
lighting and other services...
Type: BriefReport#: 102793Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Garg,Anjali ;
Govindarajalu,Chandrasekar ;
Bruck,Naomi Paula ;
Chang,Victoria Y. ;
Soaloon,Hulman
After six years of recession, Croatia
returned to growth in early 2015 supported by external
demand and personal consumption. These two factors on the
demand side and...
This brief provides guidance in the
design of effective tobacco tax policies in countries such
as the emerging ASEAN economies, where tax administration
and enforcement...
Type: BriefReport#: 98420Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Bredenkamp,Caryn ;
Iglesias,Roberto Magno ;
Kaiser,Kai-Alexander
This Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency (MIGA) brief describes capital optimization. MIGA’s
capital optimization product is designed for global retail
banks with...
Improving the quality of macroeconomic
and fiscal policymaking is central to the World Bank’s
poverty reduction mission, and is the mandate of its
macroeconomics and...
Type: BriefReport#: 98244Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Meidina,Ilsa ;
Sienaert,Alexis
Globalization and rapid technological
change have made knowledge a critical determinant of
competitiveness in the world economy. The World Bank Group
(WBG) is playing...
In Sub Saharan Africa women are often
not protecting their savings through formal devices but
instead keeping their savings in more vulnerable savings
options. After...
Type: BriefReport#: 98924Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Buehren,Niklas
This brief provides some practical
examples of the strategies and processes which can be used
to build such updates as platforms for policy dialogue,
drawing on the...
Type: BriefReport#: 98243Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Ihsan,Ahya ;
Meidina,Ilsa ;
Mileva,Elitza Alexandrova ;
Sienaert,Alexis ;
Taylor,Ashley D.
Tertiary education refers to all
postsecondary education, including but not limited to
universities. Although universities are a key part of all
tertiary education systems,...
A child’s earliest years present a
window of opportunity to address inequality and improve
outcomeslater in life. The potential benefits from
supporting early childhood...
July has been unusually active for the
global economy this year. First, there was Greece’s debt
crisis, a referendum on the terms of a bailout, and ensuing
negotiations...
Type: BriefReport#: 98801Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
Depending on the nature of the threat
and the type of transaction and transport, the ability to
profile risk and the type of potential risk-mitigation
intervention will...
Type: BriefReport#: 99492Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Kerswell,Clayton Bryant ;
Kunaka,Charles
The Global Partnership for Oceans was
launched in 2012 as a new approach to restoring ocean
health. It sought to mobilize finance and knowledge to
activate proven solutions...
The third Arab development symposium
(ADS) - covers issues related to the double transition from
education to work in the Arab World. It was held in Kuwait
in November...
Type: BriefReport#: 98245Date: July 1, 2015Author:
Rouis,Mustapha ;
Limam, Imed ;
Faour, Muhammad
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