The Country Opinion Survey in Namibia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better
understanding how stakeholders in Namibia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with
systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 195286Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic growth is often associated with welfare gains through job creation. However, the number and quality of new job opportunities created in a growing economy vary across countries and sectors, due...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10989Date: December 2, 2024Author:
Burgi,Constantin ;
Shoghik Hovhannisyan ;
Camilo Mondragon Velez
This report focuses on the roots of structural inequality that are at the heart of
Africa’s slow progress in reducing extreme poverty. Rather than resulting from
differences in talent or effort, structural...
Type: ReportReport#: 195284Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Thailand, like many countries in the region, faces a skills crisis, with a very large proportion of youth and adults whose foundational skills are below threshold levels, meaning they cannot perform basic...
Type: ReportReport#: 187719Date: December 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Understanding global food production and productivity patterns is crucial for policy and in-vestment decisions aimed at addressing poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. This pa-per develops comprehensive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10990Date: December 2, 2024Author:
John Baffes ;
Etienne,Xiaoli
This document summarizes the progress made under the Reforms for Economic Stabilization to Enable Transformation (RESET) development policy financing (DPF) for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Borrower...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 195339Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Western Balkans Six Energy Crisis Response PASA was approved in November 2022 with the development objective of ‘supporting the design and implementation of medium- to long-term strategies to ensure...
The Sanctions Board's Newsletter shares updates about recent Sanctions Board membership changes, decisions, and select sanctions data for the first half of FY25
Type: NewsletterReport#: 196349Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This policy note synthesizes the results of collaboration between the Government of Mongolia (GoM) and the World Bank that produced a body of analytic and advisory work that can be used to generate policy-relevant...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 195959Date: December 1, 2024Author:
Andrew Mitchell ;
Giovanni Ruta
With climate change causing loss and damage, disrupting nature, and affecting the lives of billions of people, the world has accepted that it cannot achieve carbon dioxide reduction goals without phasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 195238Date: December 1, 2024Author:
Joanne Jordan ;
Janna Dakini Tenzing
Kenya’s macroeconomic environment improved in 2024, following a tighter macroeconomic policy framework. Still, GDP growth is decelerating as Kenya faced a multiplicity of challenges during the year. Broadening...
Type: ReportReport#: 195428Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Following the successful conclusion of Phase 1 of the Japan-World Bank
Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing
Countries for Global Resilience (hereafter, the Program) in late
2020,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 200172Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cambodia will need to significantly improve its productivity performance in the coming decades to sustain high rates of economic growth and realize its vision of rapidly becoming a high income country....
Between 2017 and 2022, Bhutan significantly reduced poverty, driven by strong economic growth, labor market and agricultural productivity improvements, COVID-19 relief programs, and substantial remittance...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 195905Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Philippines was one of the fastest-growing economies in EAP, with GDP growth increasing to 5.8 percent in Q1-Q3 2024 (5.6 percent in Q1-Q3 2023). Services continued to lead growth, mainly financial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 195424Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Armenia has made significant progress in its development journey by improving its ability to
withstand shocks and becoming an upper-middle-income country in 2018. Armenia’s GDP per capita more than doubled...
Type: ReportReport#: 195350Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Industrial production improved in November 2024, driven by an increased production of key export and manufactured products. While staying in expansionary territory, Vietnam’s PMI inched down slightly from...
Type: BriefReport#: 195870Date: December 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic growth moderated to 5.2 percent in the third quarter. On the production side, weather disturbances disrupted transport and supply chains. On the demand side, net exports declined while stronger...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 195345Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
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