Africa’s Blue Economy shows great potential for tackling the enormity of climate change while improving livelihoods for coastal communities. However, achieving this potential requires improvement in the...
Type: BriefReport#: 197913Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez
Peru’s recent history includes remarkable success. Between 2002 and 2013, Peru grew
at 6.1 percent, almost double the regional average. Following key reforms to promote
transparency and accountability...
Type: ReportReport#: 197578Date: March 17, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper explores how job vacancy data can enhance labor market information systems (LMISs) in Argentina and Uruguay where, as in many countries, data on in-demand skills is lacking. By analyzing job...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11086Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Evelyn Vezza ;
Zunino,Gonzalo ;
Laguinge,Luis ;
Harry Edmund Moroz ;
Ignacio Raul Apella ;
Marla Hillary Spivack
Climate change will have implications for the sustainability of Africa’s fisheries sector, with knock-on consequences for local livelihoods, income, nutrition security, and economic development. The effects...
Type: BriefReport#: 197914Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Darshani De Silva
Governments face the complicated challenge of making policy decisions relating to coastal and marine ecosystems without a well-established body of knowledge about such systems. To complicate matters, the...
Type: BriefReport#: 197909Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Juliana Castano Isaza ;
Joao Moura Marques ;
Idriss Deffry ;
Sandrine Georgette Christiane Jauffret ;
Jacqueline Alder ;
John Morton ;
Mark Leybourne
The Blue Economy in Africa, with its extensive aquatic and marine resources, is expected to play a major role in the continent’s climate adaptation. It presents distinct opportunities to generate jobs...
Type: BriefReport#: 197907Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Marcelo Hector Acerbi ;
Federico A. Scodelaro
The Blue Economy is at the core of economic development and competitiveness for African coastal countries. Job-creating economic sectors like tourism and food-production sectors like fisheries depend on...
Type: BriefReport#: 197918Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez
Across Africa, rising populations and increased socioeconomic activity in coastal areas are resulting in increasing marine pollution. Rather than expand their Blue Economies, countries need to combat pollution...
Type: BriefReport#: 197915Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Kanako Hasegawa
Africa’s coastal and marine areas face growing challenges. Protecting the continent’s natural assets and the services they provide is not just a moral imperative; it is also a chance to obtain higher economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 197917Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Peter Kristensen ;
Sylvia Michele Diez ;
Elisson M. Wright ;
Anthony Molle
The World Bank Group supports climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience by promoting Blue Economy job growth in Africa and worldwide. From climate-smart and resilient urban development to improving...
Type: BriefReport#: 197916Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Phoebe Girouard Spencer
The enlargement of the European Union towards the Western Balkans is experiencing unprecedented dynamism, supported by the launch of a tailored Euro 6 billion growth plan. This renewed momentum offers...
Type: ReportReport#: 197845Date: March 17, 2025Author:
Nicola Pontara ;
Medic, Pavle ;
Ana Relic ;
Richard Record
The Blue Solutions for Africa series of operational briefs
captures how a thriving Blue Economy can help African
countries better manage the development challenges
they face while supporting economic growth,...
Type: BriefReport#: 197903Date: March 17, 2025Author:
World Bank
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
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