Road traffic crashes (RTCs) pose a substantial health and developmental challenge, particularly affecting children and young adults ages 5 to 29 years, where they stand as the leading cause of death, resulting...
Type: ReportReport#: 192143Date: October 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
The report is organized according to typologies that reflect the range of
migration experiences in the region. This approach is intended to improve
understanding of the drivers, opportunities, and challenges...
Type: ReportReport#: 194399Date: October 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Gender equality has been a high-level commitment of the World Bank Group for at least two decades. In its gender strategy for fiscal years 2016-23, the Bank Group committed to maximizing the impact of...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 193623Date: October 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
About 1.2 billion people - one in five people in the world – are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 194400Date: October 29, 2024Author:
Jia Li ;
Esther G. Naikal ;
Thomas Kerr ;
Stephane Hallegatte
The Management Action Record (MAR) is integral to the World Bank Group’s accountability framework. It supports accountability, learning, and adaptation for the Bank Group management’s implementation of...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 193622Date: October 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Overall arching goal is to support the Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family, and Social Policy (MLPSFSP) to develop a methodology to regularly track poverty and social exclusion at the NUTS 3 or LAU...
Type: ReportReport#: 194406Date: October 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper strives to explain the disconnect between lessons from research literature and the relative rigidity of state-building approaches by practitioners attempting post-war reconstruction in fragile...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 194371Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Zubair Khurshid Bhatti ;
Gael Raballand ;
Nimo Jirdeh
Women are often the primary caregivers for children, which may restrict women’s economic activities. Evidence on the benefits of childcare is often from more developed urban settings. The authors examine...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 197731Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Aletheia Amalia Donald ;
Lowes, Sara ;
Julia Vaillant
The Education Finance Watch (EFW) is a collaborative effort between the World Bank, the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The EFW aims to provide...
Type: BriefReport#: 194370Date: October 28, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
UNESCO
This paper analyzes fiscal policy cyclicality, with a specific focus on the Middle East and North Africa region, which is known for its significant output volatility. The paper provides new and more granular...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10959Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Zeljko Bogetic ;
Naeher,Dominik
About 27,000 Indonesians died of lead poisoning in 2019. Where mandatory lead-free standards are absent, as is the case in Indonesia, lead paint is among the most common sources of poisoning. Tests for...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10962Date: October 28, 2024Author:
William Hutchins Seitz ;
Imam Setiawan
Health taxes are excise taxes on products that generate negative externalities and internalities and cause health harms to consumers, typically applied to tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 194366Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Evan Harold Blecher ;
Ceren Ozer ;
Viet Anh Nguyen
The report contains a list of IBRD and IDA disbursements by country and by Global Practices covering the period from FY2015 to FY2022. The information includes the disbursement amount for each of the sixteen...
Type: ReportReport#: 194402Date: October 28, 2024Author:
World Bank
Although deaths and economic losses due to extreme heat are rising globally, heatwaves remain a "hidden hazard" whose impacts are underrecognized due to measurement and valuation challenges. Cities in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10960Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Nicholas K.W. Jones ;
Asmita Tiwari ;
Natsuko Kikutake ;
Takacs,Sacha ;
Souverijns,Niels
This paper provides an extensive review of the literatures on product and labor market regulations and their effects on labor market outcomes. It uncovers the interdependence of these two types of regulations,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10961Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Alzate,David ;
Eliana Carranza ;
Duran-Franch,Joana ;
Truman G. Packard ;
Celina Proffen
To achieve their national and international education goals, many countries need to invest more and better in their education systems. During the last decade, total education spending by governments, households,...
Type: ReportReport#: 194369Date: October 28, 2024Author:
Nobuyuki Tanaka ;
Diego Angel-Urdinola ;
May Bend ;
Yitong Hu ;
Angelica Rivera-Olvera ;
Manos Antoninis ;
Yuki Murakami ;
Silvia Montoya
This is a statement by Jutta Urpilainen at the 110th Meeting of the Development Committee held on October 25, 2024. In the third year of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194330Date: October 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
This is a statement by Sang Mok Choi regarding the 110th Meeting of the Development Committee, which was held on October 25, 2024. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is condemned for its humanitarian toll,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194341Date: October 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
This is a statement by Anneliese Dodds and Rachel Reeves regarding the 110th Meeting of the Development Committee, held on October 25, 2024. They underscored the importance of the IMF and World Bank Group...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194348Date: October 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
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