Water poses significant risks to global corporations in three areas: Direct operational and supply chain risks, market and reputational risks, and regulatory risks. The 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG),...
Type: BriefReport#: 195241Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Water Resources Group (WRG) catalyzes collaboration between the private sector and government to tackle water security challenges and climate change impacts. Its engagements center on four steps: framing...
Type: ReportReport#: 195242Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
Impressive economic growth in the United Republic of Tanzania since 2000 propelled it into lower middle-income country (LMIC)1 status in 2020. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is composed of...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 195522Date: November 30, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report proposes designing such a strategy in light of macroeconomic risks. It analyzes North Macedonia’s major macroeconomic and fiscal weaknesses, risks, and debt sustainability. It discusses tax...
Type: ReportReport#: 192032Date: November 28, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report explores the key issues relating to women’s employment in Azerbaijan and offers recommendations to policymakers and companies for tackling gender-based occupational segregation in the labor...
Type: ReportReport#: 194169Date: November 28, 2024Author:
Nato Kurshitashvili ;
Shamsiyya Mustafayeva ;
Mammadov, Tural ;
Mynbayeva, Jans ;
Kelly, Sam ;
Newitt, Kirsten
Economic growth in Q3 reached a two-year high and surpassed expectations, fueled by a rebound in tourism, exports, and public investment. However, high frequency indicators indicate a slowdown in private...
Type: BriefReport#: 195144Date: November 28, 2024Author:
Warunthorn Milk Puthong
This report proposes designing such a strategy in light of macroeconomic risks. It analyzesNorth Macedonia’s major macroeconomic and fiscal weaknesses, risks, and debt sustainability.It discusses tax policy...
Type: ReportReport#: 192032Date: November 28, 2024Author:
World Bank
This guidance note has been developed to serve as a primer for utilities and regulators in developing countries on how to select and implement retail demand response (DR) programs to address electric grid...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 195187Date: November 28, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Gulf Economic Update (GEU) is the product of the Economic Policy unit for Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank Group. It provides an update on key economic developments and policies in the...
Type: ReportReport#: 195177Date: November 28, 2024Author:
Zeljko Bogetic ;
Dominik Naeher ;
Christian Borja-Vega ;
Muhammad Khudadad Chattha ;
Hoda Youssef ;
Olena Ftomova ;
Ashwaq Natiq Maseeh ;
Xinyue Wang ;
Adnan Ghosheh
Demand response is a short-term, voluntary decrease in electrical consumption by end-use customers that is generally triggered by compromised grid reliability or high wholesale market prices. In demand-response...
The report is based on the WBG’s technical assistance which aimed to 1) provide a baseline of current PHC performance, understand the strengths and weaknesses of the PHC system, and where to target initiatives...
Climate change continues to pose substantial risks to growth and inclusive development in Rwanda. The impacts of climate change and natural disasters seem to affect disproportionally the poorest and the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 195468Date: November 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
The three major players in the global economy, the United States, the European Union, and China, have been designing climate mitigation policies that will help reduce their carbon emissions but will also...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10988Date: November 26, 2024Author:
Enrique Aldaz-Carroll ;
Euijin Jung ;
Maryla Maliszewska ;
Iryna Sikora
Stigma powerfully and adversely affects individuals, families, communities, and society, and exists across all countries and cultures. A recent global survey of people with mental health conditions across...
Type: ReportReport#: 195095Date: November 26, 2024Author:
Dutta, Sheila ;
Mandeville, Kate ;
Thornicroft, Graham ;
Baker, Sue ;
Gronholm, Petra C. ;
Henderson, Claire ;
Han, Ahram ;
Kwack, Young Sook ;
Yang, Su Jin
Governments in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region face significant developmental and institutional challenges, such as slowing growth, fiscal constraints, and inefficiencies in the public...
Type: BriefReport#: 195105Date: November 25, 2024Author:
Juan Francisco Santini ;
Flavia Giannina Sacco Capurro ;
Daniel Rogger ;
Timothy Steven Lundy ;
Galileu Kim ;
Miranda, Jorge de León ;
Serena Sara Daniela Cocciolo ;
Chiara Casanova
This background paper delves deeper into the analysis of technical aspects of the LIC-DSF econometric model and implementation, the use of debt-carrying capacity as tool to parsimoniously capture country...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 195125Date: November 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
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