The benefits of international migration
for workers from the Kyrgyz Republic, their families, and
the home economy are tremendous. The migration process,
however, comes...
Global value chains (GVCs) have driven
dramatic expansions in trade, productivity, and economic
growth in developing countries over the past three decades.
Reshaping...
Type: PublicationReport#: 177513Date: November 2, 2022Author:
Brenton,Paul ;
Ferrantino,Michael Joseph ;
Maliszewska,Maryla
The Little Data Book on Financial
Inclusion 2022 is a pocket edition of the Global Findex
Database 2021. The Global Findex is the world’s
most comprehensive database...
The majority of the world’s
children live in countries where local governments are
responsible for the provision of basic education services.
Although subnational...
Type: PublicationReport#: 177231Date: October 19, 2022Author:
Al-Samarrai,Samer ;
Lewis,Blane David
Consistent with rising poverty rates,
inequality within countries in the region has widened with
rising fuel and food prices exacerbated by the war in
Ukraine. The economic...
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022:
Correcting Course provides the first comprehensive analysis
of the pandemic’s toll on poverty in developing
countries. It...
Type: PublicationReport#: 176607Date: October 6, 2022Author:
World Bank
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022:
Correcting Course provides the first comprehensive analysis
of the pandemic’s toll on poverty in developing
countries. It...
Type: PublicationReport#: 176607Date: October 6, 2022Author:
World Bank
Plastic waste is omnipresent, it is in
the air we breathe and the fish we eat, and it is
overwhelming our oceans. More than 98 percent of plastic
waste accumulates on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 176522Date: October 2, 2022Author:
Arri,Delphine ;
Peszko,Grzegorz ;
Aime,Milagros Cecilia ;
Dim,Jennifer Uju ;
Grotmann-Hoefling,Jan Philipp ;
Xie,Jian
Public entities around the world possess
an enormous volume of assets and wealth, which includes
land, buildings, historic sites, parks, and infrastructure
networks,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 175896Date: September 11, 2022Author:
Kopanyi,Mihaly ;
Muwonge,Abdu
Public entities around the world possess
an enormous volume of assets and wealth, which includes
land, buildings, historic sites, parks, and infrastructure
networks,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 175896Date: September 11, 2022Author:
Kopanyi,Mihaly ;
Muwonge,Abdu
The recovery continued in the first
semester of 2022, supported by nonhydrocarbon activity and
crude oil production. Nonhydrocarbon GDP accelerated in
Q1-2022, supported...
The need for transforming agriculture
and the food sector from current humanitarian aid dependence
to a more development-oriented growth pathway remains a high
priority...
The Arab Republic of Egypt was well on
the path to achieving its demographic dividend at the turn
of this century but has gone off track due to a reversal in
its earlier...
Type: PublicationReport#: 175616Date: September 1, 2022Author:
El-Saharty,Sameh ;
Nassar,Heba Ahmed Abdelsalam ;
Mohamed,Sherine Shawky Hassan ;
Elshalakani,Amr ;
Hamza,Mariam Mohamed Samir Amin ;
Zhang,Yi ;
Zeitoun,Nahla Ahmed Mohamed Salaheldin
As South Asia trudges ahead on the road
to recovery, the region faces extremely difficult eco nomic
challenges. Internally, economies are weighed down by scars
from...
Type: PublicationReport#: 182977Date: September 1, 2022Author:
Zoe Leiyu Xie
This report provides new data on trade
in medical goods and services and medical value chains;
surveys the evolving policy landscape before and during the
pandemic;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 174766Date: August 4, 2022Author:
Fisk,Mary C. ;
Katayama,Patricia Mari ;
Martin,Anthony N.
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis was a
reminder, if any were needed, that criminal creativity
thrives in times of chaos, exploiting people’s
fears. Unsafe face...
Type: PublicationReport#: 174182Date: July 21, 2022Author:
Chatain,Pierre-Laurent ;
Van Der Does De Willebois,Emile Johannes Marie ;
Maud Bökkerink
This synthesis report aims to explore
the key drivers for China’s poverty alleviation
achievements in the past 40 years and to consider the
lessons of China’s...
Type: PublicationReport#: 174183Date: July 21, 2022Author:
World Bank ;
Development Research Center of the State
Council, the People’s Republic of China
Overweight and obesity are both a
disease and a biological risk factor linked to
noncommunicable diseases. More than half of the adult
population in Saudi Arabia is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 174111Date: July 20, 2022Author:
Mohammed Alluhidan ;
Alsukait,Reem Fahad M ;
Taghred Alghaith ;
Shekar,Meera ;
Nahar Alazemi ;
Herbst,Christopher H.
International economic integration
offers unexploited opportunities to Latin America and the
Caribbean. This report studies how the region’s
countries can leverage...
In 2015, the government of Ukraine
initiated fundamental reform of its health system with the
goals of improving the health outcomes of the population and
providing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 167095Date: July 13, 2022Author:
Bredenkamp,Caryn ;
Dale,Elina M. ;
Doroshenko,Olena ;
Dzhygyr,Yuriy ;
Jarno Habicht ;
Hawkins,Loraine ;
Katsaga,Alexandr ;
Maynzyuk,Kateryna ;
Pak,Khrystyna ;
Olga Zeus
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