Established in 2014, the World Bank
Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub was launched in
acknowledgement of the learning emerging from the 2011 Great
East Japan...
Type: BriefReport#: 190257Date: May 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
Botswana has sprinted to become an
upper-middle income (UMIC) economy largely thanks to strong
institutions and mineral resource revenue. Living conditions
have steadily...
Adoption of digital technologies is
widely acknowledged to boost productivity and employment,
stimulate investment, and promote growth and development.
Africa has already...
Type: ReportReport#: 190277Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose
Although access to reliable electricity
enables manufacturing companies to increase their output,
there have been few studies of the distribution of output
growth between...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10770Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Kaba,Kabinet ;
Tchana Tchana,Fulbert
Haba Haba, which means “bit
by bit” in Swahili, is a voluntary pension scheme
in Kenya for workers in informal employment and promises to
be a scheme through...
Type: ReportReport#: 190258Date: May 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores new firm-level data
to examine the gender gap in technology adoption and the
associated effect on firm performance. The data show a small
difference...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10771Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Cirera,Xavier ;
Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose ;
Soares Martins Neto,Antonio ;
Lee,Kyungmin ;
Gomes Nogueira,Caroline
The NUSAF project was implemented from
2016 – 2021 and the projectclosed in June 2021. A
follow-up operation is under preparation that has
expandedgeographic...
Despite evidence that women’s
political preferences differ from those of men, women are
less likely to participate in political and social
discussions on Twitter...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10769Date: May 14, 2024Author:
Heath,Rachel ;
Van Der Weide,Roy
The Guinea-Bissau Economic Update
monitors significant recent economic developments in the
country, highlighting the key structural challenges
Guinea-Bissau faces in...
Type: Economic Updates and ModelingReport#: 190172Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This course has been commissioned
explicitly to examine three areas of occupational safety,
occupational health, and violence and harassment from the
perspective of...
Type: BriefReport#: 190177Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
The significance of this diagnostic work
stems from the fact that it is the first of its kind to be
carried out under the One Health perspective in Sudan. The
study...
This document is an update to the
previous Poverty Assessment and presents revised monetary
poverty estimates and an update of non-monetary poverty
indicators. Specifically,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 190175Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This deliverable is the completion of a
report distilling the lessons learnt and best practices from
pre-feasibility assessments for different countries on
energy storage,...
Type: ReportReport#: 190766Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
The program on climate smart livestock
(PCSL), jointly implemented by the International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI), the German Agency for
International Cooperation...
Type: ReportReport#: 190182Date: May 14, 2024Author:
Gerber,Pierre Jean ;
Germer,Leah Arabella
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