The impacts of climate change on developing economies are becoming increasingly severe, creating challenges for risk management and requiring enhanced levels of resilience. This paper explores how to mitigate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10982Date: November 21, 2024Author:
Rezai,Armon ;
Franz Ulrich Ruch ;
Rishabh Choudhary ;
John Nana Darko Francois
The Country Opinion Survey in Uruguay assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Uruguay perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 194994Date: November 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
Pakistan consistently ranks among the top 10 countries worldwide most affected by climate change. More frequent and extreme weather events are adversely impacting ecosystems, people, and their settlements...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 194959Date: November 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
The World Bank introduced the multiphase programmatic approach (MPA) in 2017 as a means of structuring a long, large, or complex engagement as a set of shorter linked projects or phases. This engagement...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 194644Date: November 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Uruguay assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Uruguay perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 194994Date: November 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper proposes a new method for estimating a full-coverage spatial price index using data typically available in household budget surveys. The food component of the index is estimated at the household...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10978Date: November 19, 2024Author:
Amendola,Nicola ;
Belotti,Federico ;
Edo,María ;
Marco Ranzani ;
Giovanni Vecchi
During the COVID-19 pandemic, low- and middle-income countries struggled with lower vaccination rates compared to wealthier countries, posing challenges to reducing virus transmission, mitigating healthcare...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10981Date: November 19, 2024Author:
Cameron,Corey ;
Jungkyu Rhys Lim ;
Michelle Dugas ;
Ellen Elizabeth Moscoe ;
Mohamad Chatila ;
Renos Vakis ;
Zeina Afif ;
Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera ;
Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez
The Global Data Facility was designed and launched to implement the key recommendations and
insights from World Bank’s 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives. It is putting data to work to...
Type: BriefReport#: 194896Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
This policy note outlines Yemen’s main water security challenges and identifies a series of recommended interventions that take into account the country’s uncertain future trajectory. The scarcity of water,...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 194948Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
With their large, often unparalleled, retail outreach to otherwise underserved areas and populations, Cooperative Financial Institutions (CFIs) have significant potential to deepen financial inclusion...
Type: ReportReport#: 193496Date: November 19, 2024Author:
Toshiaki Ono ;
Hensgens, Juliette ;
Eva M. Gutierrez ;
Sivakumaran, Rubiga ;
Sivley, Anne ;
Juan Buchenau ;
Jose Isaac Rutman ;
Carlos E. Cuevas
Cambodia’s export-driven growth has resulted in increased freight demand. Containerized import and export cargo movement has increased more than five-fold over the past 12 years. By 2030, it is expected...
Type: ReportReport#: 194950Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
This note is part of the April 2024 release of the latest country-level Learning Poverty estimates. The document details country-level changes to the underlying data used to produce the April 2024 Learning...
Type: ReportReport#: 193947Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) identifies the key objectives and development results through which the World Bank Group (WBG) intends to support a member country in its efforts to end extreme...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 194963Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
GRIDMAP--the Global Regulations, Institutional Development, and Market Authorities Perspective Toolkit--provides emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) with a “Minimum Package” of policies to...
Type: ReportReport#: 194890Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
Prioritization and costing are amongst the most challenging aspects of recovery and peacebuilding assessments (RPBA). Prioritization is a two-fold process, starting within the thematic groups that are...
Type: ReportReport#: 194915Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
This guidance note provides practitioners - including technical and sectoral experts and planning advisors - an overview of the process for designing Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessments (RPBA) implementation...
Type: ReportReport#: 194913Date: November 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The principles of sovereignty, equality, and self-determination – which have long been the basis for nonintervention in the affairs of sovereign states – have more recently been widened to condemn outside...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10979Date: November 19, 2024Author:
Bernice Nuerkey Narh ;
Michael Woolcock
Can skills-based programs promote women’s economic inclusion? This study randomizes access to a program teaching entrepreneurship skills in rural Uganda. The program covers record-keeping, identifying...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10980Date: November 19, 2024Author:
Megan Elizabeth Lang ;
Seither,Julia
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