This brief on the Slovak Republic
displays the trends, performance, demographics,
contributors, and national data related to poverty and
prosperity development.
Although child mortality rates have
declined all across the developing world over the past 40
years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and
North Africa...
Type: BriefReport#: 92441Date: September 1, 2014Author:
Iqbal, Farrukh
In markets with high levels of financial
exclusion, actors in the financial system, financial service
providers (FSPs), consumers, providers of financial system
infrastructure...
Type: BriefReport#: 90953Date: September 1, 2014Author:
El-Zoghbi,Mayada ;
Lauer, Kate
National portfolio formulation exercises
(NPFEs) are country-level portfolio planning processes that
enhance country ownership by determining programming
priorities...
The Zimbabwe Water Forum provides a
platform for Government and Development Partners to share
international best practices in the water sector between
Zimbabwe and other...
Type: BriefReport#: 103629Date: August 31, 2014Author:
Davis,Richard Mark ;
Hirji,Rafik Fatehali
This report aims looks at efforts to
control black carbon emissions from diesel-based
transportation in developing countries. It presents a
summary of emissions control...
The 2014 World Bank entrepreneurship
database provides a unique indicator of new business
registration, allowing the measurement of entrepreneurial
activity across economies...
This story highlights as Myanmar lags
far behind its neighbors in Internet penetration, the World
Bank is striving to help improve access and local
innovation. Earlier...
Supporting the development of small and
medium enterprises (SMEs) is a strategic pillar of
International Finance Corporation's (IFC's)
private enterprise partnerships...
Type: BriefReport#: 93973Date: August 20, 2014Author:
Clancy,Sara Ann ;
Gomes,Mario Joao
This issue of Indonesia MTI Economic
Note contains economic highlights including: Indonesia’s
current account deficit increased to USD 9.1 billion in Q2
2014, up from...
In the past decade, the economy of
Bangladesh has grown nearly 6 percent per year, and human
development has gone hand in hand with economic growth.
Poverty dropped...
This story highlights the Rwanda
adolescent girl’s initiative (AGI) launched a pilot program
in 2012 to boost job skills and incomes among disadvantaged
adolescent girls...
Climate change can put the resources,
supply chains, and infrastructure that companies rely on at
risk, while also threatening to roll back decades of global
development...
The ‘Maker Movement’ leverages
do-it-yourself technologies, 3D printers, laser cutters,
sensors, etc., and organic communities of innovators to
address local challenges....
This brief summarizes the results of a
gender impact evaluation study, entitled preventing child
marriage : lessons from World Bank Group (WBG) gender impact
evaluations...
Type: BriefReport#: 89989Date: August 11, 2014Author:
Parsons, Jennifer ;
McCleary-Sills, Jennifer
This story highlights despite recent
advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and
young women, pervasive challenges remain. New impact
evaluation briefs released...
This brief discribes the economic
updates of Mozambique. Some of the key highlights being that
the economy grew by 7.5 percent in the first quarter of
2014. That there...
Progress toward gender equality over the
past two decades is most evident in education goals, as
primary and secondary school enrollment rates are now the
same for boys...
Gender equality cannot be achieved until
women have control over their sexual and reproductive health
(SRH) decisions, including those that determine their risk
for...
This story highlights the handbook
brings attention to the unique complexities of natural
Resource Revenue Administration. Focus on natural resource
revenue administration,...
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