Zimbabwe is a lower middle-income
country with abundant natural capital and growth potential,
but is highly exposed to climate change, with its immediate
ability to...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 187767Date: March 1, 2024Author:
De Waal,Dominick Revell ;
Ilieva,Stella
This report outlines updated reform
priorities for Thailand’s social and economic
development. While the Thailand 2016 Systematic Country
Diagnostic (SCD) remains...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 188334Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Haiti is highly vulnerable to the
impacts of climate change due to its geographic location,
low economic development, and limited resources. The
country’s geographical...
Type: ReportReport#: 192428Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Frake,April Nicole ;
Boyer,Christopher Jacob ;
Iglesias Luzardo,Mikhael Gabriel ;
Flannery,Jessica Leete Werner ;
Rabary, Malanto
The Lebanon Country Climate and
Development Report (CCDR) aligns the country’s
short-term recovery needs with resilient, low-carbon,
long-term development, building...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 188143Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cash-transfer payment mechanisms abound
and have diversified greatly in recent years. Payments can
be made manually (in person) on a set schedule at a
brick-and-mortar...
Type: BriefReport#: 191203Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper provides conceptual
definitions and distinctions between formalization, worker
protection and productivity enhancement, and examines the
impact of social...
The World Bank developed the EdTech
Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring
the extent to which technology supports teaching and
learning processes...
Type: BriefReport#: 188649Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of
Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank,
officially launched the Uganda High Frequency Phone Survey
(UHFPS) to track...
Type: BriefReport#: 192574Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cochinard,Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor,John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini,Giulia
African countries and ports have much to
gain from the adoption of advanced digital solutions, which
will facilitate the flow of cargo through their ports in a
more...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193921Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Female labor force participation in
Mashreq countries is notably low due to a range of
structural constraints that are further exacerbated by
gender norms. This knowledge...
Type: BriefReport#: 190786Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Qarout,Dana Ghazi Nabeeh ;
Lundvall,Jonna Maria ;
Nasr,Nour ;
Chatila,Mohamad
A growing body of evidence finds that
cash transfers reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in
various contexts, even when the cash transfer was not
designed to do so....
Type: BriefReport#: 191206Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Heinemann,Alessandra ;
Rawal,Palak
Improvements in the health outcomes of
women, young girls, and children will be key to Rwanda
attaining three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG) focused on...
Type: BriefReport#: 189375Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Gordillo-Tobar,Amparo Elena ;
Prata Menezes,Neia Sue Ellen ;
Akala,Francisca Ayodeji ;
De Francisco Serpa,Nataliya
The World Bank developed the EdTech
Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring
the extent to which technology supports teaching and
learning processes...
Type: BriefReport#: 188648Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In 2023, growth in the Pacific islands
(PIC-11) decelerated but remained robust at 5.5
percent—about two and a half times the long-term
average. Fiji’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 188091Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To help policy makers make practical
programmatic design choices, this series summarizes recent
literature on cash transfers and explains how the design of
cash transfer...
Type: BriefReport#: 191205Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Botea,Ioana Alexandra ;
Coudouel,Aline ;
Heinemann,Alessandra ;
Kuttner,Stephanie Anne ;
Rawal,Palak
Studies from 2016 on demonstrate that
the impact of cash transfers varies based on duration,
depending on whether they are distributed over a short (24
months or less)...
Type: BriefReport#: 191201Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cabo Verde, an archipelagic small island
developing state, is endowed with an economic geography that
poses both challenges and opportunities. Prior to 1991, the
economy...
Type: ReportReport#: 188299Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Benkirane,Zineb ;
Navarrete Moreno,Cristina ;
Bomfim De Andrade,Rodrigo ;
De Castro Martins,Ricardo David ;
Chamberlain,Amy Jane ;
Jorge,Miguel Angel ;
Jorge,Sonia Nunes ;
Mckenna,Jonathan Miles
This assessment overcomes these
limitations to develop a holistic analysis of poverty in
Yemen. It is possible to use data on key areas, such as food
security and other...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 188071Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The main objective of this study is to
assess the performance of Cambodia’s tertiary
education system in terms of equitable access, labor market
relevance, and...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0003389Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Bhatta,Saurav Dev ;
Salmi,Jamil ;
Katwal,Saurav ;
Lauri Pynonnen ;
Heng,Somphospheak
This report examines how Indonesia
assesses the impacts and needs of households affected by
disasters and uses that information to provide Social
Protection support...
Type: ReportReport#: 191940Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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