This story highlights the readiness for
Investment in Sustainable Energy (RISE) is a tool that will
help countries understand what policies and institutional
instruments...
In the Philippines, 31% of rural
communities still practice open defecation. This brief
discusses how the World Bank is working with the government
on a campaign to...
Type: BriefReport#: 178061Date: November 19, 2014Author:
World Bank
To measure the economic impact of Ebola
on Liberian households, the World Bank, with the Liberian
Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services and the
Gallup...
This story highlights the Indonesia was
formally recognized as an EITI compliant country. The
country's EITI report captures over 90 percent of
payments and revenues...
Developing countries are facing a
massive infrastructure deficit. Despite robust growth over
the last decade, many people in developing economies and
emerging markets...
Working with the Global Environment
Facility, the World Bank helped the Brazilian government
implement a series of protected areas that have reversed
deforestation in...
This story highlights the first of nine
automated solar measuring stations in Pakistan was
inaugurated at the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Bahawalpur in
October 2014....
The Information Technology (IT)
revolution is transforming labor markets globally in an
unprecedented way, and the world is at the beginning of what
some have called...
Type: BriefReport#: 180467Date: November 6, 2014Author:
World Bank
This story highlights a Landlocked
developing countries (LLDCs) face higher transport and trade
costs, with serious consequences on their overall economic
performance....
In a creative bid to reduce energy
poverty, Rwanda’s national utility launched a campaign to
distribute energy-saving Compact Fluorescent Light (CFLs)
bulbs, effectively...
The IPCC's Fifth Assessment
Synthesis Report warns of the need to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by 40 to 70 percent by 2050, on pace for carbon
neutrality by the end...
Afghanistan suffers from poverty and low
human development aggravated by 23 years of conflict. In
2012, the population was 29 million and per capita income US
$268....
Sri Lanka is an island nation with a
population of 20 million. In 2012, per capita income was US
$2,923. From 2003 to 2012, the economy grew at 6.4 percent
annually....
Cambodia has faced daunting challenges
in rebuilding its health workforce following the Khmer Rouge
genocide of 1975-79, during which about 90 percent of health
professionals...
Type: BriefReport#: 93388Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Sanjoaquin,Miguel
Among the various investments in human
capital that countries can make, those related to early
childhood development (ECD) may have the largest returns
later in life....
Type: BriefReport#: 93205Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Denboba, A. ;
Devercelli, A. ;
Neuman, M. ;
Sayre, R. ;
Wodon, Q.
Investing in young children is one of
the best investments that countries can make. A childs
earliest years present a unique window of opportunity to
address inequality,...
Type: BriefReport#: 93207Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Denboba, A. ;
Sayre, R. ;
L, Wodon, ;
Rawlings, Elder, L ;
Lombardi, J.
This study explored Pakistani
(especially Punjabi) couples' dynamics during their
decision processes on fertility intentions and practices,
along with community perceptions...
Type: BriefReport#: 93549Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Kamran, Iram ;
Khan, Mumraiz ;
Tasneem, Zeba
Bhutan is a small landlocked country in
the Himalayas between China and India. Poverty reduction has
been rapid from about 23 percent in 2007 to 12-13 percent in
2012....
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
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