Climate change impacts the planet overall, and the Blue Economy is not exempt from these effects. On the contrary, the ocean is a major regulator of global and regional weather, and ocean acidification...
Type: BriefReport#: 197910Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Federico A. Scodelaro
Africa has significant potential to improve its climate-smart sustainable development by focusing on the Blue Economy. However, efforts to reach this potential are stymied by poor access to relevant data...
Type: BriefReport#: 197912Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep
This report aims to identify strategic actions to increase investment in NBS for climate resilience in SSA by evaluating over a decade of NBS project investment and assessing a range of policy, financial,...
Type: ReportReport#: 197407Date: March 14, 2025Author:
Natasha Collins ;
Boris van Zanten ;
Innocent Onah ;
Lizzie Marsters ;
Laura Jungman ;
Rory Hunter ;
Natalie von Turkovich ;
James Anderson ;
Gabriela Vidad ;
Todd Gartner ;
Brenden Jongmanrtner
The document collection explores the interconnectedness of global food security and economic growth. It examines historical trends in economic development and analyzes the factors that influence food production,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200132Date: March 14, 2025Author:
World Bank
Livestock plays a critical economic and social role both globally and in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The livestock sector encompasses a variety of species, with cattle being the most prominent...
Type: ReportReport#: 197828Date: March 13, 2025Author:
Francisco Obreque ;
Ernest Ruzindaza ;
Emma Isinika Modamba ;
Hardwick Tchale ;
Biruktayet Assefa Betremariam ;
Ana Cristina Canales Gomez ;
Easther Chigumira ;
Mario Mendez
This paper assesses the impact of favoritism in public procurement on private sector productivity growth. To this end, it combines three novel microeconomic data sets: administrative data on firms, including...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11085Date: March 13, 2025Author:
Fazekas,Mihaly ;
Poltoratskaya,Viktoriia ;
Marc Tobias Schiffbauer ;
Tóth,Bence
Social safety nets are among the most widely studied interventions. More than 15,000 studies published between 2000 and 2024. There have been over 50 systematic reviews summarizing impact studies. There...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 196137Date: March 13, 2025Author:
World Bank
This study analyzes the direct effects and local spillovers of a low-cost multifaceted economic inclusion program through a randomized controlled trial in Chad. The intervention included group savings...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11084Date: March 12, 2025Author:
Patrick Premand ;
Pascale Schnitzer
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector finds itself at a pivotal moment while propelling digital transformation across the globe, it is also contributing to climate change. In almost...
The Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan Survey (L2CU) has been conducted for 6 years since 2018 monthly, with the support of the UK Government. The L2CU monitored socio-economic indicators and citizens’...
Type: BriefReport#: 192566Date: March 11, 2025Author:
Ikuko Uochi
This report is a review of GRADEs conducted since 2015, and GRADE’s efficiency, comparative advantage through detailed analysis, and future. First, the GRADE approach and how it has been used and evolved...
Type: ReportReport#: 197754Date: March 11, 2025Author:
World Bank
Viet Nam’s real GDP growth reached 7.1 percent in 2024, driven by a strong rebound in exports, outpacing most regional peers. External demand strongly rebounded in 2024 after a contraction in 2023. Final...
The Country Opinion Survey in Zambia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Zambia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 197790Date: March 11, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Zambia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Zambia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and...
Type: ReportReport#: 197790Date: March 11, 2025Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh was one of the world’s most populous countries, with an estimated 165 million people in 2020. The country enjoyed relatively high and stable growth in the past two decades, accompanied by rapid...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 200097Date: March 11, 2025Author:
World Bank
Are firms adapting to climate change? This paper studies this question by combining geocoded World Bank Enterprise Survey data with spatially granular weather data to estimate temperature response functions...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11081Date: March 10, 2025Author:
Claudia N. Berg ;
Bettarelli,Luca ;
Furceri,Davide ;
Ganslmeier,Michael ;
Arti Grover ;
Megan Elizabeth Lang ;
Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
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