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: PublicationReport#: 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
Since 2000, China has been upgrading its infrastructure, exemplified by the expansion of the high-speed railways (HSR), while simultaneously moving up the global value chains, evidenced by the rising domestic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10985Date: November 25, 2024Author:
Hiau Looi Kee ;
Enze Xie ;
Xu,Mingzhi
This paper develops a “plausible worst-case” scenario for Cambodia to illustrate how a severe, 1-in-10-year flood could trigger cascading impacts, including widespread disease outbreaks and financial instability....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10983Date: November 25, 2024Author:
Hector Pollitt ;
Migle Petrauskaite
Although green public procurement has been established as a desirable policy goal across the globe, especially in the European Union, its scope and impacts remain severely understudied. This paper provides...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10987Date: November 25, 2024Author:
Poltoratskaia,Viktoriia ;
Quintero,Maria Fernanda ;
Fazekas,Mihaly ;
Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
The design of the power market determines how the sector can address complex economic, social, environmental, and engineering challenges to deliver sustainable and reliable electricity at least cost to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10986Date: November 25, 2024Author:
Elcin Akcura ;
Emelly Mutambatsere
Poland has been central to Europe’s growth performance over the last three decades, it now has an opportunity to engage in the structural reforms ensuring its continued success in a more challenging global...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194509Date: November 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Macroeconomic textbooks warn that procyclical public spending can amplify economic volatility and cause fiscal stress. However, the latter risks materialize only when governments fail to reduce spending...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10984Date: November 25, 2024Author:
Daniel Riera-Crichton ;
Pilar Ruiz Orrico ;
Guillermo Javier Vuletin
The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB), with financial support from the World Bank, is preparing the Accelerating Transport and Trade Connectivity in Eastern South Asia (ACCESS) Bhutan project under the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 195189Date: November 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Rice is increasingly significant in the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Climate Change Action Plan (2021–2025), focusing on climate-smart rice-farming systems and value chains. At COP28 in 2023, the World Bank...
Type: ReportReport#: 195043Date: November 22, 2024Author:
Bottriell, Kathleen ;
Heather Renee Oh ;
Alan Johnson ;
Josefina Maiztegui ;
Jessica Camilli Bluestein
Jobs at Your Doorstep is an initiative to conduct an extensive jobs diagnostic, aiming to delineate the socio-economic, demographic, and employment landscape of six states: Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya...
Type: ReportReport#: 195088Date: November 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper, a product of the Forum, summarizes actions that can be taken to manage Abandoned, Lost, and Otherwise Discarded Fishing Gear (ALDFG) in the context of the three life-cycle stages of fishing...
Type: ReportReport#: 195092Date: November 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
Jobs at Your Doorstep is an initiative to conduct an extensive jobs diagnostic, aiming to delineate the socio-economic, demographic, and employment landscape of six states: Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya...
Type: ReportReport#: 195088Date: November 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The report on the indexation of benefits within the adaptive social protection (ASP) framework underscores the importance of linking cash transfers to inflation to maintain their adequacy amidst changing...
Type: ReportReport#: 195056Date: November 21, 2024Author:
Ugo Gentilini ;
Hrishikesh Tirumala Madabushi Matam I ;
Giorgia Valleriani ;
Aziz, Sheraz ;
Arimbi, Hana Rakhma ;
Nogueira, Jusaine Lis Miranda ;
Trujillo, María Angélica ;
Cheng, Calvin
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has powered prosperity in developing countries for decades. Yet FDI, once a reliable contributor to economic growth, a conduit for the transfer of technology and innovation,...
Type: ReportReport#: 195453Date: November 21, 2024Author:
Ethiopis Tafara ;
Sebnem Erol Madan ;
Moritz Nikolaus Nebe ;
Persephone Economou ;
Leo Francis Abruzzese
In July 2022, the Prime Minister of Viet Nam approved the 'Action Program on Green Energy Transportation – Reduction of Carbon and Methane Emissions of the Transportation Industry' through Decision 876/QD-TTg,...
Type: ReportReport#: 194239Date: November 21, 2024Author:
Bowen Wang ;
Chiara Odetta Rogate
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