In India, economic growth increased from 7.0 percent in FY22/23 (April 2022-March 2023) to 8.2 percent y-o-y in FY23/24. On the demand side, growth was primarily driven by a significant expansion of investment,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193358Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The world’s population is aging. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that, in 2030, 1 in 6 persons worldwide will be aged 60 years or over. This study explores the relationship between providing...
Type: ReportReport#: 193513Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Gatti, Roberta ;
Daniel Halim ;
Hardiman, Allen ;
Shuqiao Sun
Globally, 41 million people die from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) every year (World Health Organization 2022a). This accounts for approximately 74 percent of all deaths (World Health Organization 2022a)....
The Green Budget Tagging Guidelines Conceptual Approach establishes a comprehensive framework for implementing green budget expenditure tagging in the Kyrgyz Republic, aligning with the country’s fiscal...
Type: ReportReport#: 193517Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic ;
World Bank
The central hypothesis of this research is that there is a strong, positive correlation between good management practices and firm performance, for which we find strong evidence in a survey on management...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 193764Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Laurent Loic Yves Bossavie ;
Erkan Duman ;
Aysenur Acar Erdogan ;
Mattia Makovec ;
Sirma Demir Seker
As the global population rapidly ages, there is a pressing need for approaches to promote health, well-being, and productivity across the life course (Beard and Bloom 2015; Bloom and Sousa-Poza 2013)....
Type: ReportReport#: 193522Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Haldane, Victoria ;
Gisela M. Garcia ;
Bockarie, Tahir ;
Wu, Daphne ;
Herrera, Cristian A. ;
Castro, Maria Luisa Latorre ;
Chakraborty, Debapriya ;
Essue, Beverly ;
Jha, Prabhat ;
Jeremy Veillard
Disease burden is commonly measured using a variety of health statistics, including deaths by cause, injury and disease prevalence and incidence, and disability-adjusted life years. While these metrics...
Type: ReportReport#: 193507Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Chang, Angela Y. ;
Stevens, Gretchen A. ;
Cardoso, Diego S. ;
Cao, Bochen ;
Jamison, Dean T.
This Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) assesses Togo to be at moderate risk of external debt distress and high overall risk of public debt distress—unchanged from the last DSA.2 Judgement was applied...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194460Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Bhutan expects to double its hydropower capacity over the next decade, which is expected to have significant effects on the economy. Estimates using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model (the business-as-usual...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 193361Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This chapter aims to outline a framework for examining the impact pathways between non-communicable diseases (NCDs), human capital (HC), and end outcomes - primarily healthy longevity, inclusive growth,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193506Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Philip O'Keefe ;
Haldane, Victoria
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 of longevity were still regularly...
Type: ReportReport#: 193508Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Verguet, Stéphane ;
Sarah Ann Bolongaita ;
Chang, Angela Y. ;
Cardoso, Diego S. ;
Stevens, Gretchen A.
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 to after 2010, at least in Low middle...
Type: ReportReport#: 193509Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Wu, Daphne C. ;
Chakraborty, Debapriya ;
Hum, Ryan ;
Jha, Prabhat ;
Jamison, Dean T.
Even though girls’ enrollment in secondary school in Western and Central Africa has improved since 1990, the rate of progress has stagnated over the last 15 years. In many parts of the world, including...
Type: BriefReport#: 195035Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper aims to assess the readiness of public secondary schools across different
provinces in the DRC to adopt technology that supports the development of digital skills. To this end, nine key factors...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194681Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Christiane Wendy Voufo ;
Frederico Carvalho ;
Leonce Kazumba ;
Malu,Ra?ssa ;
Yevgeniya Savchenko
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 of the World Bank Group (WBG). Under...
This report contains the World Bank Group Boards’ updated calendar for the period from September to November 2024, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194625Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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 detailed exploration of a specific topic....
Type: ReportReport#: 193606Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Christina A. Wood ;
Boulel Toure ;
Marilyne Florence Mafoboue Youbi
Ecuador is a middle-income country with abundant agricultural, oil, mineral, and hydropower resources and a challenging fiscal situation. Ecuador is already facing severe consequences from climate-induced...
Type: ReportReport#: 193430Date: August 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small island nation with a population of 228,319, is currently facing a significant wave of emigration driven by limited job and economic opportunities. The country's economy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 196050Date: August 31, 2024Author:
Emma Mercedes Monsalve Montiel ;
Guillaume Kroll ;
Barbara Barros Barbosa ;
Delfim Mampassi E Martins Mawete ;
Mohamed Boly
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