A significant drop in oil production derailed economic growth, despite better harvests. Food insecurity and extreme poverty remain high because of high inflation, climate and external shocks, declining...
Type: BriefReport#: 194132Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Ugandan economy recorded accelerated growth, supported by continued investment momentum. Headline inflation declined sharply driven by moderating food prices, monetary policy tightening, and relative...
Type: BriefReport#: 194136Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Since October 2023, and as a direct spillover of the conflict in the Middle East, military confrontation on the southern border with Israel has been escalating, adding strain to Lebanon's crisis-ridden...
Type: BriefReport#: 194045Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic recovery in Barbados continues despite significant challenges facing the country due to its small size, heavy reliance on tourism, and vulnerability to climate-related and other external shocks....
Type: BriefReport#: 194007Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The latest official statistics indicate that living conditions in Bolivia deteriorated in 2022, following a post-pandemic rebound in 2021. Employment declined in Q4 2022 (year-over-year), real labor income...
Type: BriefReport#: 196060Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In developing countries, the lack of access to safe, effective, and affordable transport is a fundamental issue for many if not most people. Almost 10 years ago, Kumar and Zimmerman (2015) observed that...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 193813Date: October 1, 2024Author:
Ajay Kumar-GTIGE ;
Zimmerman, Sam
Ecuador faces significant challenges centered around structurally low growth, low-quality employment, and strained fiscal accounts. The government passed reforms that helped improve the fiscal stance,...
Type: BriefReport#: 194016Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent decades, El Salvador has sustained stable, albeit low growth, achieving reductions in poverty and inequality, although progress on poverty has slowed since the pandemic. The country has also...
Type: BriefReport#: 194017Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Türkiye has started implementing decisive macroeconomic stabilization policies after the May 2023 elections. These policies—based on tighter monetary policy, a relatively prudent fiscal stance, and a structural...
Type: ReportReport#: 195768Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Transportation Asset Management is a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, upgrading, and expanding physical assets effectively throughout their lifecycle. It focuses on business...
Type: ReportReport#: 195706Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Transportation Asset Management is a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, upgrading, and expanding physical assets effectively throughout their lifecycle. It focuses on business...
Type: ReportReport#: 195706Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In fiscal year 2024, the World Bank Group adopted a bold new vision of a world free of poverty on a livable planet. To achieve this, the Bank Group is enacting reforms to become a better partner to governments,...
Type: World Bank Annual ReportReport#: 194209Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Family dialogue program was piloted in Mauritania. The objective of the program is to implement and test the effects of a couples’ training program in the context of a national cash transfer program,...
Type: ReportReport#: 194391Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Kosovo’s climate change policies are, in part, shaped by various external drivers and international commitments; internally, it needs to make more progress by not only intensifying its own climate ambition...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194436Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Given the increasing climate challenges, this report updates Thailand’s BCG model for current
circumstances. We call it BCG+. The report uses advanced modeling and other cutting-edge analytics to take...
Growth is expected to normalize in 2024 and revert to its long-term average of 3.3 percent over the medium term, anchored on continued tourist arrivals. Fiscal consolidation is expected to continue over...
Type: BriefReport#: 193970Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
GDP growth is expected to reach 3.1 percent in 2024, after a mild recession in 2023, which together with lower inflation is expected to drive down poverty rates to 33.1 percent in 2024. Risks include heightened...
Type: BriefReport#: 194028Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is projected to grow at 5 percent in 2024, supported by a robust performance in tourism, recovery in agriculture, and implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects....
Type: BriefReport#: 194030Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Progress toward comprehensive debt restructuring and wide-reaching reforms under the macroeconomic stabilization program has put Ghana on a path to fiscal sustainability. Currency stabilization and tight...
Type: BriefReport#: 194110Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
China’s economy had a strong start to the year, but a deeper contraction of the property sector and weaker consumption weighed on growth in the second quarter. Growth is projected at 4.8 percent in 2024,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193969Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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