Since the late 1990s access to
information and communication technologies (ICTs) has seen
tremendous growth, driven primarily by the wireless
technologies and liberalization...
Type: World Development IndicatorsReport#: 138438Date: January 1, 2018
The coastal zone of Ghana is home to
more than a quarter of the country’s population, and
contributes as much as 80 percent of the country’s annual
capture fish production....
Agriculture is central to emerging
market economies. In Africa it accounts for as much as 65
percent of employment and 32 percent of output. Globally,
two-thirds of...
Type: BriefReport#: 124214Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Walton,Tom ;
Grishin,Vadim Nikolaevich
Evidence shows that women play an
important, but often unnoticed role in agribusiness value
chains. This gender inequality presents a missed business
opportunity. To...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126136Date: January 1, 2018
Partnership for growth: linking large
firms and agro-processing small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) presents lessons learned from various models utilized
by public and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 125936Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Pant,Anupa Aryal ;
Lapres,Blair Edward ;
Olafsen,Ellen ;
Ronchi,Loraine ;
Cook,Peter A.
As the global population grows to 9
billion people by 2040, there is already a significant shift
in Energy Demand Growth that points directly to key emerging
economies....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129284Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Suriyagoda,Nuwan
On May 8–12, 2017, the World Bank
Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub in Tokyo and the
Resilient Transport Community of Practice (CoP) hosted a
week-long Technical Knowledge...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123890Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Forni,Marc S. ;
Newman,James P. ;
Toya,Akiko ;
Jain,Vibhu
Doing business in South Africa 2018
focuses on business regulations and their enforcement across
five doing business areas. It goes beyond Johannesburg to
benchmark...
This report includes an assessment of
the current municipal solid waste situation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina (BiH) including investments and actions needed
for improvement....
Type: ReportReport#: 138675Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Ionkova,Kremena M.
The country opinion survey in Armenia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Armenia perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: ReportReport#: 143063Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Felzer,Sharon
This report records the presentation of
Tongo poverty conference which covered the methods of
poverty and monetary measures to calculate the standard of
welfare of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126866Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Halstead,Imogen Cara
The urban growth scenario methodology
facilitates the understanding of various possible outcomes
related to specific urban policies. This methodology
analyzes the performance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 127106Date: January 1, 2018
The January newsletter focuses on the
fate of widows and divorcees in Africa, where the impact of
marital death and divorce falls heavily on women, who are
often excluded...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 137150Date: January 1, 2018
This Climate Change’s reports, cities’
abilities to address climate change is critical to limiting
global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. There is no doubt
that the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134204Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Klein,Alzbeta ;
Widge,Vikram ;
Maheshwari,Aditi ;
Malik,Ayesha
New available data suggests that the
business environment in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
(PDR) is not improving, and may be deteriorating. The main
constraints...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123357Date: January 1, 2018
In 2016, the Republic Democratic of
Congo (RDC) and Tanzania requested World Bank support for
the implementation of the Lukuga project, a dam on the sole
outlet of Lake...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123065Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Serrat Capdevila,Aleix ;
Lajaunie,Marie-Laure ;
Bonzanigo,Laura ;
Palma Leal Figueira,Pedro Manuel ;
Bench,Reynaldo
This report includes an assessment of
the current municipal solid waste situation in BiH including
investments and actions needed for improvement. For the
first time...
This annual report summarizes the World
Bank group (WBG) air transport development activities, which
includes an overall portfolio, and several analytical and
technical...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 125638Date: January 1, 2018
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