Recent poverty and equity dynamics in Viet Nam can be described across three distinct phases. First, at the start of the decade, there was rapid poverty reduction accompanied by declining inequality. From...
Type: ReportReport#: 192332Date: June 1, 2024Author:
Judy Yang
Sustainable fisheries are crucial to Indonesia’s economic growth and the nutritional needs and livelihoods of millions of Indonesians. Yet evidence suggests that Indonesia's fisheries have yet more to...
Type: ReportReport#: 190990Date: June 1, 2024Author:
David James Kaczan ;
Andrew Harvey ;
Yadranka Farita ;
Ridwan Mulyana ;
Fery Sutyawan ;
Reniel Cabral
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated school closures led to significant learning disruption around the world (Patrinos, 2023; Schady et al, 2023), and there is a need to understand the relationship between...
Type: ReportReport#: 194193Date: June 1, 2024Author:
Anna Hata ;
Seil Kim ;
Shinsaku Nomura
This advisory document provides a green-growth framework
for Bangladesh to achieve high-level objectives identified in
the Bangladesh Country Partnership Framework for fiscal years
2023–2027, and the country’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 190765Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The rapidly evolving digitalization in Uzbekistan is expanding opportunities to bolster an inclusive digital economy. Uzbekistan’s New Development Strategy and the 2030 Digital Strategy highlight the prominence...
Type: ReportReport#: 192767Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The KP’s objective is to strengthen the World Bank’s portfolio in promoting gender equality and social inclusion (GESI). There are two pillars: gender and social inclusion, and each pillar has (i) project...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192751Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Indigenous Peoples (IPs) have rights, often customary and collective in nature, that are enshrined in a growing body of international & regional rights frameworks outlining the duties of States. National-level...
Type: ReportReport#: 191436Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Economic growth has rebounded over the past three years but is still fragile due to increased macroeconomic vulnerabilities. The industrial sector has been a key driver of Liberia’s economic growth, particularly...
Type: ReportReport#: 193479Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Located at the eastern edge of the European Union (EU), bordering Ukraine and Belarus, Poland is a noteworthy example of Europe’s successful convergence machine. Nearly three decades of uninterrupted economic...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 192377Date: June 1, 2024
This report summarizes the main results from a technical assessment of air quality in Tashkent (Part I) that informed the definition of sectoral policies and measures (PaMs) in the roadmap for air quality...
Type: ReportReport#: 191244Date: June 1, 2024Author:
Elena Strukova Golub ;
Inobat Allobergenova ;
Kirtan Chandra Sahoo ;
Fahad M A M Alfahad ;
Sarath Guttikunda ;
Vasil Borislavov Zlatev ;
Marco Mantovanelli ;
Sanjay Srivastava ;
Sameh Naguib Wahba
According to the latest World Bank report on the global health cost of particles with diameter less than 2.5 microns (µm) (PM2.5) air pollution, Uzbekistan has the second highest annual average PM2.5 concentration...
Type: ReportReport#: 192725Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This advisory document provides a green-growth framework
for Bangladesh to achieve high-level objectives identified in
the Bangladesh Country Partnership Framework for fiscal years
2023–2027, and the country’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 190765Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report was prepared by the Ghana Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) team to shed light on the prevalence and risks of child labor in Ghana and provide a step-by-step approach that can help...
Type: ReportReport#: 190751Date: June 1, 2024Author:
Nordenmark Severinsson,Anna Kristina Elisabet ;
Okereke,Nneka
Various efforts have been made to comprehensively assess agricultural policies in countries worldwide using diverse methodologies, including some generated by several international organizations. Since...
Type: ReportReport#: 191014Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, offshore wind will need to make an increasing contribution to the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement....
Type: ReportReport#: 190902Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Investments in crisis preparedness are crucial for countries that are highly vulnerable to a range of risks, including climate change, natural hazards, and health emergencies. As Pakistan recovers from...
Type: ReportReport#: 191179Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Philippines has experienced robust economic growth averaging 6.3 percent between 2011 to 2019. Despite a pandemic-induced contraction, it remains a top performer in the region and is on track to reach...
Type: ReportReport#: 191506Date: June 1, 2024Author:
Toni Joe Lebbos ;
Laarni Revilla ;
Paula Maria Cerutti ;
Yoonyoung Cho ;
Maria Vida Gomez ;
Anna Melissa Guerrero ;
Wei Han ;
Karthika Radhakrishnan-Nair ;
Ruth Rodriguez ;
Sidiki Soubeiga ;
Ali Winoto Subandoro ;
Janssen Teixeira
Increasing the power supply-demand gap remains the major challenge to securing reliable electricity services in Myanmar. This report presents the recent dynamics in both on-grid and off-grid electricity...
This report assesses specific barriers experienced by poor and vulnerable households in Indonesia with accessing social protection benefits in remote areas and recommends specific policy and operational...
Type: ReportReport#: 191941Date: June 1, 2024Author:
Revita Wahyudi ;
Farida Sondakh ;
Vina Noor AR Permatasari
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 192772Date: June 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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