The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region is facing an acute lack of water for life and
livelihoods. Despite significant infrastructure investments
over the past...
Type: PublicationReport#: 181559Date: April 17, 2023Author:
De Waal,Dominick Revell ;
Khemani,Stuti ;
Barone,Andrea ;
Borgomeo,Edoardo
Digital technologies (DTs) have emerged
as an essential element of a good-jobs strategy for African
countries. This report presents the best available evidence
on the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 181553Date: April 17, 2023Author:
Begazo Gomez,Tania Priscilla ;
Blimpo,Moussa Pouguinimpo ;
Dutz,Mark Andrew
Electric mobility has garnered growing
interest and significant momentum across several major
global markets—often motivated by transportation
sector decarbonization....
Type: PublicationReport#: 181505Date: April 13, 2023Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Qiao,Wenxin ;
Foster,Vivien
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
slowed to 3.6 percent in 2022, from 4.1 percent in 2021 but
may be bottoming out. Weak investment growth and
macroeconomic instability...
Type: PublicationReport#: 181179Date: April 2, 2023
Development is a dynamic, transformative
process that fundamentally changes how people live. People
are the means and ends of development-the goal of which is
to equip,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 181108Date: March 30, 2023Author:
Barron,Patrick John ;
Cord,Louise J. ;
Cuesta, José ;
Espinoza,Sabina Anne ;
Larson,Gregory Michael ;
Woolcock,Michael
Developing countries face massive
infrastructure needs, but public spending on infrastructure
is inadequate, and public investment has been declining in
recent years....
Global economic development has long
been propelled by the mass production and consumption of raw
materials—for food, energy, shelter, and all the
comforts of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 179284Date: March 16, 2023Author:
Baffes,John ;
Nagle,Peter Stephen Oliver
We live in a rapidly aging world, in
which people who are age 60 and older outnumber children
under the age of five. This book reveals large and growing
gaps in care...
South Sudan faces hard times ahead. For
decades prior to independence, the country experienced
conflict, marginalization, and underdevelopment, which led
to a protracted...
Bangladesh is home to one of the largest
populations of older adults in the world.Driven by
increasing life expectancy at birth, this population is
increasing. By 2040,one...
Like many other countries,
Kazakhstan’s economic growth has slowed since the
2007–09 global financial crisis. Although the
slowdown reflected weaknesses...
Type: PublicationReport#: 179904Date: January 10, 2023Author:
Iootty De Paiva Dias,Mariana ;
Bizhan,Asset ;
Correa,Paulo Guilherme
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis
recedes, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is back to
work and looking forward. Is the region back to normal? As
chapter 1 discusses,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 178908Date: January 3, 2023Author:
Maloney,William F. ;
Riera-Crichton,Daniel ;
Vuletin,Guillermo Javier
Global growth is projected to decelerate
sharply, reflecting synchronous policy tightening aimed at
containing very high inflation, worsening financial
conditions, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 186449Date: January 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a
comprehensive system that requires comprehensive
consideration of factors such as the local climate, natural
environment, economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 178859Date: December 23, 2022Author:
Chen,Alexandra Yi Fung ;
Yin, Xiaogang ;
Jiang, Shangchuan
While great progress has been made in
agricultural production in China, there are still challenges
affecting the sustainable development of agriculture.
Conservation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 178858Date: December 23, 2022Author:
He, Jin ;
Jiang, Shangchuan
The Central African Economic and
Monetary Community (CEMAC) authorities had been trying to
set in motion a process to address the root cause of the
region’s vulnerability...
Type: PublicationReport#: 178717Date: November 18, 2022Author:
World Bank ;
International Monetary Fund
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