This technical note builds on the work
initiated by the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) and
advocates for the establishment, monitoring, and enforcement
of regulations...
Type: BriefReport#: 190608Date: May 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Tunisian economy’s
challenging past decade has highlighted the pressing need
for a sustainable and resilient development model. The
nation’s strategic...
Type: ReportReport#: 190604Date: May 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
Rural-to-urban migration in China has
transformed the lives of millions of rural residents. This
paper reviews empirical evidence on the impacts of migration
on the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10784Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Giles,John T. ;
Mu,Ren
Togo, a West African country of roughly
eight million people, is endowed with a strategic location,
a natural deep-water port, fertile land, and mineral
resources. It...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 185419Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
This technical background paper
evaluates the progress of African nations in establishing
effective fiscal frameworks for digital infrastructure
across the continent....
Type: ReportReport#: 190413Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Niesten,Hannelore Maria L. ;
Begazo Gomez,Tania Priscilla
This report provides an assessment of
the current state of poverty and inequality in Lebanon. It
documents the impact of a protracted economic crisis on
households,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 190554Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bangladesh has made significant health
gains, but the rate of progress is slowing and threatens to
be reversed in the face of complex and interconnected
challenges within...
Type: ReportReport#: 190588Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
Against the backdrop of aging, Indonesia
has started to address important policy challenges,
including by gradually raising the retirement age. Based on
the United Nations...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193752Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti
This paper uses four decades of data on
Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint
impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on
local economic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10785Date: May 23, 2024Author:
Selod,Harris ;
Steinbuks,Jevgenijs ;
Trotter,Ian Michael ;
Blankespoor,Brian
The Country Opinion Survey in Chile
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding
how stakeholders in Chile perceive the WBG. It provides the
WBG with...
Type: ReportReport#: 190556Date: May 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the dawn of the new millennium, Japan
found itself lagging in the global race to embrace
information and communication technology (ICT). In 2000, its
internet penetration...
What drives citizen’s trust
in state institutions? There are longstanding debates on the
pathways towards institutional trust: is trust driven by
citizen’s...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10783Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Zovighian,Diane ;
Cloutier,Mathieu ;
Bove,Abel Paul Basile
The document collection discusses the
vulnerability of a country to climate change, highlighting
the human, social, and economic costs associated with
extreme weather...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192416Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Reform of formal technical and
vocational education and training (TVET) is urgently needed
in most low- and middle-income countries. Demographic
trends, coupled with...
Type: ReportReport#: 183938Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Levin,Victoria ;
Santos,Indhira Vanessa ;
Weber,Michael ;
Iqbal,Syedah Aroob ;
Ashwani Aggarwal ;
Comyn,Paul John ;
Katayama,Hiromichi ;
Hoftijzer,Margo A.
As the conduit between power demand and
supply, the utilities that operate the world's
transmission and distribution networks will be the critical
link in the energy...
Type: ReportReport#: 190500Date: May 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper provides one of the first
estimates of elasticities of substitution across suppliers
within the same product. This paper estimates these
elasticities using...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10782Date: May 22, 2024Author:
Fujiy,Brian C. ;
Ghose,Devaki ;
Khanna,Gaurav
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