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
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
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
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
Using a randomized control trial, this paper studies an at-scale preschool construction program that serves poor communities in rural Mozambique. In addition to the construction of preschools, the program...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10814Date: June 24, 2024Author:
Marina Bassi ;
Besbas,Bruno ;
Lelys Dinarte ;
Ravindran,Saravana ;
Reynoso,Ana
Human capital, the sum of a population’s health, skills, knowledge, and experience, constitutes a fundamental pillar in the sustainable development and economic growth of nations (World Bank 2018). It...
Type: ReportReport#: 191769Date: June 24, 2024Author:
Tekabe Belay ;
Martin Elias De Simone ;
Dilip Parajuli ;
Olumide Olaolu Okunola ;
Mahesh Dahal ;
Ayodeji Gafar Ajiboye ;
Elina Pradhan ;
Dmitry Chugunov ;
Deborah Isser ;
Ikechukwu John Nweje
The toolkit complements the Handbook of
Territorial and Local Development Strategies
and the Handbook of Sustainable Urban
Development Strategies developed by
the Joint Research Centre in collaboration
with...
Type: ReportReport#: 191748Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
Plastic pollution has become an urgent global
issue (OECD 2022). Policymakers, business leaders,
and communities are advancing solutions to
address the problem, but a significant financing
gap remains...
Type: ReportReport#: 191757Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report provides a high-level assessment of Georgia’s water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of highlighting...
Type: ReportReport#: 191775Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note analyzes the current state of digitalization in Armenia for corruption prevention and provides inputs and recommendations to inform the ongoing strategic planning process in anticorruption led...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0003386Date: June 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
Energy poverty has gained attention in the context of increasing energy prices and the recent energy crisis in Europe. However, measuring energy poverty and characterizing the energy poor are challenging,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10818Date: June 24, 2024Author:
Britta Laurin Rude ;
Monica Robayo
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