This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries. Macroeconomic indicators...
Type: ReportReport#: 194068Date: October 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
The primary objective of this report is to enhance the understanding of Results-Based Financing (RBF) approaches strategically employed to improve gender outcomes. The report is structured around two central...
Type: ReportReport#: 194247Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) represents a critical aspect of the Government of Nepal’s (GON) strategy to improve governance, optimize the utilization of public resources, and promote...
Type: ReportReport#: 194237Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Waseem Kazmi ;
Shraddha Shah
The latest available poverty estimates from the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) 2019/20 showed a poverty rate of 20.3 percent as measured by the national poverty line. Poverty decreased from 21.4...
Type: BriefReport#: 196085Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The economy decelerated slightly. Manufacturing and private consumption weakened while exports and tourism continued to support growth. Growth is projected to accelerate to 2.4 percent in 2024, with further...
Type: BriefReport#: 194240Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Following decades of remarkable declines in poverty and inequality, progress has slowed since 2015. Between 2015 and 2021, the national poverty rate decreased from 7.2 percent to 6.3 percent, while the...
Type: BriefReport#: 196087Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Migration can offer opportunities but also presents risks for migrants and those at home. These risks are often exacerbated by factors such as gender, age, and ethnicity. Social protection can potentially...
Building on its 7.1 billion dollars cumulative cement industry investment portfolio, International Finance Corporation (IFC) has developed a tool to help cement companies in emerging markets to start planning...
Type: BriefReport#: 197052Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Femi Akinrebiyo ;
Alexander Sharabaroff ;
Marek Stec ;
Margarita Talavera
The 2024 World Bank Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index is an inventory of the sustainability considerations used in World Bank (Bank) lending and analytical services as well as its corporate practices....
Type: ReportReport#: 194233Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This PWIP (Pacific women in power) baseline report aims to delineate the status of women’s employment in energy utilities and ministries in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to help inform relevant entry...
Pacific island countries face significant challenges in providing sustainable management systems for an increasing and diversifying range of waste materials, driven mainly by changing urbanisation patterns,...
Type: ReportReport#: 194241Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies. To this end, the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10954Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Amat Adarov ;
Clements,Benedict ;
Jalles,João Tovar
The report presents an analysis of the World Bank–financed investments that use results-based financing (RBF) approaches in the solid waste management (SWM) sector. It reviews the World Bank’s investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 194249Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Hyunji Lee ;
Ibrahim Ali Khan ;
Amsale Bumbaugh ;
Vibhu Jain ;
Emma Marie Heneine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which started in February 2022, has caused large-scale losses of human life and severe damages to infrastructure. Livelihoods have been severely disrupted through massive...
Type: BriefReport#: 196084Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
It is often argued that small firms are more flexible than large firms. As a result, small firms perform better in volatile markets compared to large firms. The present paper explores this idea for a representative...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10953Date: October 22, 2024Author:
Mohammad Amin ;
Nesma Ali
Türkiye has made significant progress in reducing poverty over the last decade: the percentage of population below the international upper middle-income poverty line of $6.85 at 2017 PPP fell from 16 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 196086Date: October 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note introduces the 14th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP). Shared prosperity, a key indicator of inclusive growth, is measured as the annualized growth rate in per capita...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194234Date: October 21, 2024Author:
Carlos Sabatino ;
Carolina Diaz-Bonilla ;
Danielle Victoria Aron ;
Cameron Nadim Haddad ;
Minh Cong Nguyen ;
Haoyu Wu
Armenia is progressing in closing the gender gap by ensuring: equal school enrollment at primary and secondary levels; more women studying in some STEM fields at universities (54 percent of mathematics...
Type: BriefReport#: 194223Date: October 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note presents the 8th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of October 2024....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194235Date: October 21, 2024Author:
Carolina Diaz-Bonilla ;
Carlos Sabatino ;
Danielle Victoria Aron ;
Cameron Nadim Haddad ;
Minh Cong Nguyen ;
Haoyu Wu
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