This report assesses the main outcomes
achieved at the closure of Partnership for Market Readiness
(PMR) Colombia. Observed results confirm the important
contribution...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001895Date: December 14, 2020
These remarks were delivered by World
Bank Group President David Malpass at the Climate Ambition
Summit 2020 on December 12, 2020. He spoke about the Climate
change,...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 155095Date: December 12, 2020Author:
Malpass,David
The tourism sector is one of the
hardest-hit sectors by Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Travel
restrictions, border shutdowns and reduction in the number
of flights have...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 154952Date: December 11, 2020Author:
Garcia,Andres F. ;
Crisostomo,Ma. Charmaine Robles
This synthesis provides a review of
operationally relevant findings and lessons from World
Bank-supported utility reforms in the energy and water
sectors, as identified...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 154623Date: December 3, 2020
International efforts to avoid dangerous
climate change have historically focused on reducing
energy-related carbon-di-oxide (CO2) emissions from
countries with the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160572Date: December 1, 2020Author:
Cui,Can ;
Guan,Dabo ;
Wang,Daoping ;
Chemutai,Vicky ;
Brenton,Paul
The objective of the advisory services
and analytics (ASA) exercise was to help the selected states
of Kerala and Tamil Nadu develop options for strengthening
institutions...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163695Date: December 1, 2020
A machine learning (ML) algorithm is a
type of computer program that learns to perform specific
tasks based on various data inputs or rules provided by a
human. Since...
Prešov region (PSK) hosts Roma
inhabitants living in the municipalities, according to the
Atlas of Roma Communities of the Slovak Republic 2019. PSK
hosts the second...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 155210Date: December 1, 2020Author:
Silimela,Yondela Tembakazi ;
Arbe,Samuel ;
Hochmuth,Václav
Climate change is a grave threat to
global development and shared prosperity. Its impacts are
expected to intensify even as the world responds to the
Coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Type: ReportReport#: 155312Date: December 1, 2020Author:
Menzies,Nicholas ;
Almuzaini,Abdulaziz A A Y ;
Annandsingh Rattia,Diana Carolina ;
Averchenkova,Alina ;
Fozzard,Adrian ;
Kirchhofer,Xenia Vanessa
Natural capital approaches, the focus of
this report, are an essential way for businesses to
understand their impacts and dependencies on nature and, by
so doing, to...
Type: ReportReport#: 156760Date: December 1, 2020Author:
White,Elizabeth M. ;
Gough,Mark ;
Spurgeon,James Philip Giles ;
Rahill,Bilal H.
For effective management of land
acquisition, resettlement, rehabilitation and other social
issues in Afghanistan, capacities of institutions, staff and
front-line workers...
Type: ReportReport#: 154647Date: November 30, 2020Author:
Noori,Mohammad Yasin ;
Sultani,Zahra
Over much of the past decade,
Bangladesh's development prospects have been buoyed by
a record of strong and sustained economic growth. Yet even
as the country's bustling...
The Global Water Security Partnership
(GWSP) was launched in 2017 as an international partnership
to support countries to meet the targets related to water
and sanitation...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 154360Date: November 23, 2020
The author provides the first
consistently estimated dataset on infrastructure investments
in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). To do so, we
identify three possible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 154544Date: November 23, 2020
These remarks were delivered by World
Bank Group President David Malpass to the G20 Leaders’
Summit. He discusses while some countries are recovering,
the pandemic is...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 154705Date: November 21, 2020Author:
Malpass,David
These remarks were delivered by World
Bank Group President David Malpass to the G20 Finance
Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting on November 20,
2020. He thanked...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 154661Date: November 20, 2020Author:
Malpass,David
Investments in road infrastructure as a
means for granting access and mobility have been an
important part of the World Bank's strategy of
fightingpoverty and increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 156331Date: November 13, 2020
Globally, cities are the source of over
70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Cities are also the engines of the global economy,
concentrating more than...
Climate change poses serious threats to
inclusive economic progress and poverty reduction. Strong
countermeasures are required to increase the capacity of
low-income...
Type: PublicationReport#: 154330Date: November 10, 2020Author:
Dasgupta,Susmita ;
Wheeler,David J. ;
Sobhan,Md Istiak ;
Bandyopadhyay,Sunando ;
Nishat,Ainun ;
Paul,Tapas
Stepping Up Women's STEM Careers in
Infrastructure: An Overview of Promising Approaches
describes a variety of ways to level the pathway for women
entering into and...
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