South Africa’s green transition will have major implications for its workforce. The World Bank recently published several complementary reports that more elaborately describe existing knowledge about the...
Type: BriefReport#: 196770Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Elizabeth Ninan ;
Margo A. Hoftijzer ;
Franz, Jutta ;
Duncan, Ken
Providing care for older parents or parents-in-law significantly reduces the probability of employment and annual earnings, particularly among women and intensive caregivers, which remains the most prevalent...
Type: BriefReport#: 193502Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Meriem Boudjadja ;
Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri ;
Seemeen Saadat
Côte d’Ivoire’s overall and external public debt remain at moderate risk of debt distress. Côte d’Ivoire successfully returned to international capital markets after a 3-year hiatus and used the proceeds...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193737Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Preliminary estimates from INETL, the Timor-Leste National Statistics Office, suggest that the economy grew by 2.3 percent in 2023, following growth of 2.9 percent in 2021 and 4.0 percent in 2022. The...
The Country Opinion Survey in Georgia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Georgia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 192795Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Republic of Congo (RoC) is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. RoC is committed to the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance low carbon development. In...
Type: BriefReport#: 192831Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
A Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is a diagnostic instrument toanalyze key constraints to growth, support policy dialogue with the government, and inform engagement with different stakeholders. During...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 193555Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Lodewijk Smets ;
Lachlan McDonald ;
Miller, Chris ;
Lodewijk Smets
Ethiopia faces political, economic, and humanitarian challenges. Support from the international community weakened notably during the two-year conflict in Tigray but is now resuming. Bunching of debt service...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194259Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Staff assesses Uzbekistan’s risk of external debt distress as low and debt carrying capacity as strong. 2 Under the baseline scenario, public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) external debt and total external...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192785Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study provides guidance on World Bank involvement in Digital Communications Infrastructure (DCI) projects in which finance has been extended to support build-out. In particular, the study provides...
The Country Opinion Survey in Bhutan assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Bhutan perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 192796Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Mongolia’s economy, heavily dependent on mining, has faced significant challenges from recent concurrent shocks, highlighting the urgent need for structural and fiscal reforms. The country’s increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 193017Date: July 31, 2024Author:
Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez ;
Maria Ana Lugo ;
Elitza Mileva ;
M. Yaa Pokua Afriyie Oppong ;
Xiaodong Wang
The Country Opinion Survey in Uruguay assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Uruguay perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 194994Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
Zimbabwe’s debt remains unsustainable and assessed to be in external and overall debt distress. Significant arrears are owed to multilateral and official bilateral creditors, which stands as an obstacle...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 194566Date: July 31, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol has seen the development of over 250 project-based methodologies for establishing baseline emissions, assessing additionality, monitoring...
Type: ReportReport#: 192776Date: July 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
The document collection focuses on the Uttarakhand Climate Responsive Rainfed Farming Project, which aims to address the impact of climate change on agriculture in a hilly and mountainous region. The project...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192779Date: July 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Across European Union (EU) countries, the institutional design of Minimum Income (MI) programs varies widely in terms of the benefits and services provided to recipients, despite significant convergence...
On July 30, 2024, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number seven hundred and three. It was resolved that the attached rules for the 2024...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192964Date: July 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
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