The progress in mortality reduction not
only varies by age, but also over time. The mortality rates
decreased notably faster for ages under 70 during 1990-2010
compared...
Type: ReportReport#: 193509Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Wu,Chen Nee Daphne ;
Chakraborty, Debapriya ;
Hum,Ryan James ;
Jha,Prabhat K. ;
Jamison,Dean T.
This chapter has been prepared as
background to the Healthy Longevity Initiative (HLI), under
the ambit of the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP)
Global Practice...
Type: ReportReport#: 193521Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Govindaraj,Ramesh ;
Gopalan,Sundararajan Srinivasa
This is the first annual edition of
Guinea Economic Update. This annual report presents an
overview of Guinea’s evolving macroeconomic
position, followed by a...
Type: ReportReport#: 193606Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Wood,Christina A. ;
Toure,Boulel ;
Youbi,Marilyne Florence Mafoboue
Trust lies at the foundation of all
commercial and administrative transactions, which for
centuries have relied upon the handwritten signature for
authentication. As...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 193647Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
North Macedonia is an
upper-middle-income country that aspires to join the
European Union (EU), but its sustained growth has been
achieved at high environmental and...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 193719Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Disease burden is commonly measured
using a variety of health statistics, including deaths by
cause, injury and disease prevalence and incidence, and
disability-adjusted...
Type: ReportReport#: 193507Date: August 31, 2024Author:
Chang, Angela Y. ;
Stevens,Gretchen Anna ;
Cardoso, Diego S. ;
Cao, Bochen ;
Jamison,Dean T.
Economic growth strengthened to 6.3
percent in the second quarter as investment and public
consumption boosted domestic demand. The unemployment rate
fell to a record...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 193429Date: August 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Coordinated efforts are needed globally
to emphasize the importance of healthy longevity on both
health and well-being. The concept of healthy longevity
describes a...
Type: ReportReport#: 193523Date: August 31, 2024Author:
Wu,Chen Nee Daphne ;
Veillard,Jeremy Henri Maurice ;
Haldane,Victoria Elizabeth ;
Saadat,Seemeen ;
Jha,Prabhat K.
Disease burden is commonly measured
using a variety of health statistics, including deaths by
cause, injury and disease prevalence and incidence, and
disability-adjusted...
Type: ReportReport#: 193428Date: August 31, 2024Author:
Chang, Angela Y. ;
Stevens,Gretchen Anna ;
Cardoso, Diego S. ;
Cao, Bochen ;
Jamison,Dean T.
The water and sanitation sector in
Azerbaijan is currently undergoing important institutional
reforms for improving services including addressing its
fragmentation and...
This chapter aims to outline a framework
for examining the impact pathways between non-communicable
diseases (NCDs), human capital (HC), and end outcomes -
primarily...
Type: ReportReport#: 193428Date: August 31, 2024Author:
O'Keefe,Philip B. ;
Haldane,Victoria Elizabeth
Before the onset of the COVID-19
pandemic in 2020, life expectancy at birth had been steadily
increasing globally (UN 2019); and the advancements to older
ages and frontiers...
Type: ReportReport#: 193428Date: August 31, 2024Author:
Verguet, Stéphane ;
Bolongaita,Sarah Ann ;
Chang, Angela Y. ;
Cardoso, Diego S. ;
Stevens,Gretchen Anna
With just six years remaining before the
2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG),
the World Bank Group (WBG) Partnership Fund for the SDGs
continues...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 193320Date: August 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of
the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World
Bank’s Development Research Group. It reports on
research by...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 193319Date: August 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Education holds the key to faster and
better climate action (action that supports climate change
mitigation and adaptation). This is partly because people in
the eye...
Growth accelerated in Q2 to 2.3 percent,
slightly above expectations, but the recovery continued to
lag ASEAN peers. In June, data indicated a subdued recovery,
with...
Type: BriefReport#: 193303Date: August 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
The bioeconomy refers to activities that
convert biological materials from agriculture, forests, the
marine environment, and waste, into products, processes and
services...
Type: ReportReport#: 193215Date: August 29, 2024Author:
Kechichian,Etienne Raffi ;
Ott,Stefan
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.