Rice is a crucial staple food globally, but its cultivation demands significant land and water resources and contributes to over 10 percent of human-induced methane emissions. Sustainable rice production...
Type: ReportReport#: 195044Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Bottriell, Kathleen ;
Heather Renee Oh ;
Alan Johnson ;
Josefina Maiztegui ;
Jessica Camilli Bluestein
Women and men experience aging differently. Evidence from across the globe suggests that aging is not “gender-neutral”, but rather “gender-imbalanced”. Along with physical and physiological differences,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193512Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Seemeen Saadat ;
Meriem Boudjadja ;
Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri
The rapid digitization reshaping the financial services landscape presents both opportunities and challenges. While rapid digitization has broadened access to and reduced the costs of financial services,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193581Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Eric Duflos ;
Juan Carlos Izaguirre ;
Sai Krishna Kumaraswamy ;
Laura Brix Newbury ;
Myra Valenzuela
This report presents an overview of policies, institutions, and regulations (PIR) in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector for three countries in the Caucasus region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia....
Type: ReportReport#: 193697Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Smita Misra
Environmental and climate factors play an increasing role in shaping Ethiopia’s economic competitiveness, and this report aims to provide an overview of these shifts. This novel report is a high-level...
Type: ReportReport#: 194146Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Milaine Rossanaly ;
Butler, Matt ;
Philip Grinsted ;
Cartwright, Juan
Even as human beings are living longer and generally healthier lives, consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and processed foods with high sugar content are causing substantial death and disease. In recent decades,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193511Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Paraje, Guillermo ;
Jha, Prabhat ;
Savedoff, William ;
Alan Fuchs
In virtually all countries across the world, the population is aging, and consequently, both the number and proportion of older people are growing. Notably, the aging process is accelerating at a more...
Type: ReportReport#: 193515Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Elena Glinskaya ;
Xiaohui Hou ;
Feng, Zhanlian ;
Angrisani, Marco ;
Suarez, Guadalupe ;
Jigyasa Sharma ;
Phillips, Drystan ;
Wilkens, Jenny ;
Lee, Jinkook ;
Yoo, Yeeun Lee ;
Lau, Samuel ;
Park, Hae Yeun ;
Chen, Yizhou
As underscored in several background papers developed for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (HLI) Commission, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major and growing threat to the health of the world’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 193520Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Watkins, David ;
Ahmed, Sali ;
Pickersgill, Sarah
Poor health in old age comes at a high cost for individuals, households, and societies. Increases in life expectancy across countries have not always added years of healthy life. Accordingly, health promotion...
Type: ReportReport#: 193510Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Ana Maria Rojas Mendez ;
Ana Maria Munoz Boudet ;
Moscoe, Ellen ;
Jamison, Julian ;
Herl, Carlos Riumallo
Population aging is a global phenomenon: people all over the world are living longer. Undoubtedly, this is good news. Extended longevity reflects the social and economic progress of societies; it is the...
Type: ReportReport#: 193514Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Araújo, Natalia Aranco ;
Gisela M. Garcia
Against the backdrop of a new World Bank initiative to support African think tanks, the
“Africa Think Tank Platform”, this paper outlines critical opportunities and constraints
that think tanks may face...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 194469Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Taylor,Peter ;
Oviedo,Maria Alejandra Ormeño
This World Bank in India newsletter for the month of September 2024 includes the following sub-headings: community ownership helps Improve Health Services in Nagaland; improving health services, even in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 193769Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To achieve high-income status by 2045, Vietnam must accelerate regulatory reforms to boost productivity. Vietnam’s stellar economic success story over the last 30 years relied on export-oriented foreign...
Type: ReportReport#: 195398Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Marcin Piatkowski ;
Anwar Aridi ;
Zafer Mustafaoglu ;
Asya Akhlaque
The financial system in Indonesia is dominated by banks with high capital and liquidity buffers, and the non-performing loan ratios appear low. The results of bank solvency stress tests suggest that the...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 194453Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Population mobility in the Sahel is a multifaceted phenomenon. Economic factors play an important role, with many seeking better livelihoods, higher wages, and improved living standards in response to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193611Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Yashodhan Ghorpade ;
Aline Coudouel
Economic activity has been resilient in Togo over the last few years thanks in part to fiscal stimulus which now needs to be unwound to reduce deficits and put public debt on a sustainable trajectory....
Type: ReportReport#: 193636Date: September 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To effectively address poverty, it is essential that countries have the tools and means to accurately measure people’s living standards. Most countries rely on data collected from household surveys to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 193440Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Daniel Gerszon Mahler ;
Elizabeth Mary Foster ;
Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah
The world’s population is aging at a dramatic speed, raising concerns for how to maintain income and productivity growth, improve the welfare of older people, and help them contribute to society. By 2050,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193518Date: September 1, 2024Author:
Sara Johansson de Silva ;
Indhira Vanessa Santos
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
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