Learning Poverty shows the extent of the learning crisis by focusing on the share of children who don’t learn to read with comprehension by age 10. Children who are Learning Poor are not able to reach...
Type: BriefReport#: 191873Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study uses a mixed methods approach to assess the supply and demand of formal childcare services for children under 5 years old, and their potential impact on female labor force participation. It...
Type: ReportReport#: 191858Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
India has been going through a period of structural transformation where the overall contribution from agriculture to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is declining while that of other sectors is increasing....
The document collection discusses the urgent need to address the global education crisis, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where a significant number of children struggle with foundational...
Type: ReportReport#: 191800Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
The electricity sector in Cameroon has evolution within the last three decades, with the most recent reform in 2011 by which generation, transmission and distribution functions were unbundled. This change...
Type: ReportReport#: 191828Date: June 25, 2024Author:
Barthelemy Lwanga Ayissi Tsala
Households in developing economies have greater access to formal credit today than at any point in history, owing to the global expansion of microfinance and recent innovations in consumer finance, such...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10819Date: June 25, 2024Author:
Indarte,Sasha ;
Martin Kanz
The June 2022 release of Learning Poverty estimates involves several changes to the data
underlying the country-level Learning Poverty figures. This document provides details of the key
changes made. Some...
Type: ReportReport#: 191787Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
A pension system is at the heart of social protection. By ensuring income security for older persons and other vulnerable groups, it prevents poverty, reduces inequality, and facilitates consumption smoothing....
Type: PublicationReport#: 191811Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
In Pakistan, the demand for data has significantly increased year-on-year. Pakistanis are now consuming three times more data than they did in 2018. Yet fixed broadband subscriptions, which include legacy...
Type: ReportReport#: 192130Date: June 25, 2024Author:
Jerome Bezzina ;
Shahbaz Khan ;
Ada Ogbunude ;
Carlo Maria Rossotto ;
Moritz Meyer ;
Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas
Systemic banking crises have been commonplace in FinSAC client countries and, more broadly, in the ECA region during the last 30 years. A first wave of crises was triggered by the transition to a market...
Type: ReportReport#: 191846Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Emigration has been an important phenomenon in Bosnia and Herzegovina for many decades. Today, about 1.7 million Bosnians are currently living in another country, implying that one in three Bosnians can...
Type: ReportReport#: 191853Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper builds on recent advances in machine-based pattern recognition to estimate species occurrence maps, using georeferenced open-source data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. With...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10821Date: June 25, 2024Author:
Susmita Dasgupta ;
Brian Blankespoor ;
Wheeler,David
This report addresses the importance of dividend policies for jurisdictions with profitable or potentially profitable state-owned enterprises (SOEs), against the background of current challenges in public...
Type: ReportReport#: 191815Date: June 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report provides a high-level assessment of Armenia’s water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of highlighting...
Type: ReportReport#: 191776Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report provides a high-level assessment of Azerbaijan’s water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of...
Type: ReportReport#: 191777Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document highlights that Bulgaria Digital Transformation Strategy (DTS) will be aligned with EU strategic directions, principles and requirements defined by EU Digital Decade program.
Type: ReportReport#: 191746Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
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