Zambia needs to increase productivity and accelerate economic transformation to achieve sustained and inclusive growth. Zambia’s debt resolution and ongoing reforms are expected to support macroeconomic...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 190559Date: June 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global food and nutrition insecurity has been increasing, with 258 million people across 58 countries classified as acutely food insecure, posing significant challenges in regions already struggling with...
Type: ReportReport#: 191270Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The World Bank is strengthening its collaboration and partnerships with the rest of the international development community as part of its efforts to become a better and bigger bank and recognizes that...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 191091Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
This short note is based on a survey conducted in one of the largest microwork platforms and supplemented by data scraping from the same platform. Using descriptive statistics, network analysis, constrained...
Type: ReportReport#: 190796Date: June 4, 2024Author:
Nigatu,Natnael Simachew ;
Iacob,Nadina Alexandra ;
Datta,Namita
Banking on Women Who Trade Across Borders highlights the need for gender equality in international trade and trade finance, emphasizing its importance for sustainable development in emerging markets. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 190870Date: June 4, 2024Author:
Louat,Nathalie ;
Ragoussis,Alexandros ;
Schnabel,Jessica A. ;
Toyoda,Makiko
Expanding women’s employment in the private sector is imperative to increase female labor force participation in Mashreq countries. This knowledge brief identifies lessons learned from the IFC-led business...
Type: BriefReport#: 190889Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Accurate trade data remain central for empirical investigations of international trade and informed formulation of trade policies. However, discrepancies in trade reporting, stemming from reasons such...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10792Date: June 4, 2024Author:
Mitikj,Sonja ;
Kaushik,Siddhesh Vishwanath
When companies support their employees to balance their childcare responsibilities with their work obligations, there are many benefits. IFC commissioned a study on the childcare needs of employees working...
Type: BriefReport#: 190871Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The study, ‘Digitalizing Value Chain Payments for Small Holder Farmers in Ethiopia’ aimed to develop a comprehensive understanding of financial flows and digital payment needs of small holder farmers (SHFs)...
Type: ReportReport#: 190873Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global evidence is mounting that more gender diversity in banking, including having more women in leadership, leads to better outcomes for organizations, their employees, and investors. There is increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 190880Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions (collectively referred to herein as MDBs) that make up the MDB Task Force on Mobilization1 and contributed to this report have seen...
Type: ReportReport#: 190869Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global evidence is mounting that more gender diversity in banking, including having more women in leadership, leads to better outcomes for organizations, their employees, and investors. There is increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 190881Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
This study explores the intersection between climate governance and gender diversity and inclusion (gender D&I) in companies based in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It expands the emerging...
Type: BriefReport#: 190875Date: June 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Arab Republic of Egypt is the 24th largest carbon dioxide emitter from fossil fuel combustion in the world and the third largest emitter in the Middle East and North Africa region after the Islamic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10791Date: June 4, 2024Author:
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Sebsibie,Samuel
This study was commissioned by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to identify opportunities that foster the financial inclusion of the community of Forcibly Displaced People (FDP) in Brazil. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 190874Date: June 4, 2024Author:
Bower,Jeffrey ;
Rodrigues Franco,Amanda Thais ;
Haddad Mussa Aebi,Alexandre ;
Garcia Tafur,Ricardo Martin
Policy interventions that foster aspirations, such as those using role models, are increasingly being implemented so that students, women, microentrepreneurs, farmers, and poor individuals can achieve...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10790Date: June 4, 2024Author:
Muller,Noel ;
Fruttero,Anna ;
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
De Hoop,Jacobus Joost
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