The Quality of Expenditure Heatmap (QEH) is a tool that provides information to help assess the quality of public expenditure, comparing expenditure outcomes across countries or groups of countries. Using...
Type: ReportReport#: 192076Date: July 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the borderlands of the Horn of Africa, climate variability and population growth are leading to the increasing scarcity of resources, including pasture and water. This pattern is intensifying vulnerability...
Type: BriefReport#: 192593Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Nancy Balfour
This document relates to the work carried out within the RAS on Technical Support for the Preparation of Flood Risk Management Plans for Romania Project, also known as the RO - FLOODS Project, and is directed...
Type: ReportReport#: 192591Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Chris-Philip Fischer ;
Amparo Samper Hiraldo ;
Elena Daniela Ghita ;
Feodorov, Cosmin ;
Petcana, Alexandra
This paper studies the factors affecting governments’ mixed use of tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) as trade and industrial policies. Results based on detailed bilateral-product-level ad valorem...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10855Date: July 17, 2024Author:
Hiau Looi Kee ;
Enze Xie
Economic growth has recovered. The Moroccan economy has shown resilience in the face of various challenges, including a slowdown in the global economy, an inflation shock, and the Al Haouz earthquake....
Type: ReportReport#: 192592Date: July 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cambodia has recorded impressive economic growth and improvements in social well-being in the last two decades, and it aspires to become an upper-middle income country by 2030 and a high-income country...
Launched in March 2018, and implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India (Gol), the POSHAN Abhiyaan (or the National Nutrition Mission) aimed at achieving improvement...
Type: BriefReport#: 192588Date: July 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Launched in March 2018, and implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India (Gol), the POSHAN Abhiyaan (or the National Nutrition Mission) aimed at achieving improvement...
Type: BriefReport#: 192587Date: July 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Launched in March 2018 and implemented by the Ministry of Women & Child Development (MWCD), Government of India (Gol), the POSHAN Abhiyaan (or the National Nutrition Mission) aimed at achieving improvement...
Type: BriefReport#: 192589Date: July 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Financial sector reforms are part of the strategies that countries follow to exit from fragility, but the content and focus of these reforms and the priority they are given relative to other policies vary...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10853Date: July 16, 2024Author:
Pietro Calice ;
Demekas,Dimitri G.
Economic growth has recovered. The Moroccan economy has shown resilience in the face of various challenges, including a slowdown in the global economy, an inflation shock, and the Al Haouz earthquake....
Type: ReportReport#: 192592Date: July 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cambodia has recorded impressive economic growth and improvements in social well-being in the last two decades, and it aspires to become an upper-middle income country by 2030 and a high-income country...
Middle-income countries host the majority of the world’s population exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, and the majority of this population lives in urban environments. This study investigates...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10852Date: July 16, 2024Author:
Sandra Baquie ;
A. Patrick Behrer ;
Du,Xinming ;
Alan Fuchs ;
Natsuko Kiso Nozaki
Decision-making is often used as a proxy for agency—the ability to set goals and act on them—although there are several theoretical critiques of this approach. Using unique data from the rural Philippines,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10851Date: July 15, 2024Author:
Arugay,Aries ;
Aletheia Amalia Donald ;
Forest Brach Jarvis ;
Hillary C. Johnson ;
Valenciano,Aletheia
The COVID-19 pandemic presented countries with unprecedented challenges this year, spurring widespread shutdowns, school and business closures, and job losses. Countries are facing an unprecedented economic...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 192570Date: July 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the potential correlations between financial development and state fragility, using a sample of 137 countries observed over the period from 1998–2019. The countries are grouped into...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10850Date: July 15, 2024Author:
João,Igor Custodio ;
Pietro Calice ;
Lucas,Andre ;
Schaumburg,Julia
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