Yemen’s economic and social fabric
continues to suffer from disintegration as the conflict
enters its fourth year. While official statistics remain
unavailable, partial...
Suriname’s economy has traditionally
been dependent on extractive industries, which play a
dominant role in driving growth, exports, employment, and
government revenues....
Located in West Africa, and The Gambia
is the smallest country in mainland Africa. It stretches 400
kilometers along the Gambia River. Its sole neighbor is
Senegal,...
This report contains an assessment of
the approach that the Republic of Chad has adopted or plans
to adopt to enhance the benefits generated by the
exploitation of its...
This issue highlights the following
headings: monthly highlights, special focus, recent
prospects group publications, recent World Bank working
papers, recent World...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 135077Date: February 1, 2019
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
The World Bank is supporting South
African clients diversify their sources of funding and
mitigate their foreign exchange (FX) risk by making local
currency financing...
Type: CorrespondenceReport#: 136355Date: January 30, 2019
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India
stretches across the eastern foothills of the Himalayan
mountain range. Geographically, the region is connected to
the other...
Responding to the call of Vice President
of Tanzania, Honourable Samia Suluhu Hassan, to
pragmatically address the recurrent flood risk in Dar es
Salaam, the Msimbazi...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 136102Date: January 29, 2019
Deep reforms of the Philippine power
sector began in 2001, aiming at competitive wholesale and
retail markets. This case study analyzes the Philippine
experience with...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8721Date: January 29, 2019Author:
Rudnick,Hugh ;
Velasquez,Constantin
Manufacturers often underestimate
benefits of resource efficiency and mistakenly assume that
efficiency improvements require unaffordable investments. In
fact, sizeable...
In the second half of 2018, despite
robust activity in the United States, there was a slowdown
in global growth, which reached an almost three-year low of
2.4 percent...
Type: CorrespondenceReport#: 136282Date: January 25, 2019Author:
Sanghi,Apurva ;
Baffes,John ;
Nagle,Peter Stephen Oliver ;
Okawa,Yoki ;
Emelyanova,Olga ;
Levitanskaya,Katerina ;
Matytsin,Mikhail ;
Rostovtseva,Irina
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