Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th annual study measuring the enabling conditions affecting women’s economic opportunities in 190 economies. This edition introduces two new indicators—Safety...
Type: PublicationReport#: 194559Date: November 6, 2024Author:
World Bank
In Paraguay, poverty reduction has stalled since 2014 due to a deceleration in economic growth, which has been argued to be partly due to a series of climate-related events. Nevertheless, little is known...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10970Date: November 6, 2024Author:
Teresa Janz ;
Gassmann,Franziska ;
de Ervin,Lyliana Gayoso
This paper examines the implications of the IMF’s April 2024 macro-fiscal forecast updates on government health expenditure (GHE) across 170 economies through 2029, covering nearly all years remaining...
Type: ReportReport#: 194533Date: November 5, 2024Author:
Martin Schmidt ;
David B. Evans ;
Ajay Tandon ;
Eko Setyo Pambudi ;
Christoph Kurowski ;
Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou ;
Jewelwayne Salcedo Cain
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Operating in more than 100...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 194527Date: November 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Armenia’s economy is fueled by imported natural gas. The country’s power, heating, and transport sectors rely heavily on natural gas, and the energy intensity of Armenia’s gross domestic product (GDP)...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194529Date: November 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Romania’s innovation performance has not kept pace with the country’s rapid economic growth over the last several decades. To address this poor innovation performance, the Government of Romania (GoR) has...
Type: ReportReport#: 187693Date: November 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper investigates the relationship between the expectations of economic mobility and support for tax-financed education reforms using data from the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 39 countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10966Date: November 5, 2024Author:
Alexandru Cojocaru ;
Michael M. Lokshin ;
Ivan Torre
This study uses a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a nationwide malaria prevention advertising campaign delivered through social media in India. Ads were randomly assigned...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10967Date: November 5, 2024Author:
Donati,Dante ;
Rao,Nandan ;
Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera ;
Ana Maria Munoz Boudet
The impacts of climate change are already evident in Senegal (box 1.1 ) and are projected to worsen in the future with increased temperatures, greater variability, and extreme events, as well as rising...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194531Date: November 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
As global efforts to build emergency-ready health systems intensify, the "Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience: A Three-Layer Framework" offers a practical investment framework and diverse...
Type: PublicationReport#: 194524Date: November 5, 2024Author:
Feng Zhao ;
Kovacevic, Rialda ;
Bishai, David ;
Jeffrey Weintraub
The impacts of climate change are already evident in Senegal (box 1.1 ) and are projected to worsen in the future with increased temperatures, greater variability, and extreme events, as well as rising...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 194531Date: November 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) was initiated in 2008 in Pakistan to aid the poor and vulnerable, particularly in response to the global financial crisis. The National Socio-Economic Registry...
Type: ReportReport#: 194522Date: November 5, 2024Author:
Zaineb Majoka ;
Christina Wieser ;
Maria Qazi ;
Fonseca, David Guzman ;
Thomas Pave Sohnesen ;
Ibrahim Khan
This paper sheds light on a Malaysian paradox that may have lessons for the rest of the world. Despite high gross domestic product growth with concurrent sharp reductions in income poverty and inequality,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10968Date: November 5, 2024Author:
Asadullah,M Niaz ;
Biradavolu,Monica ;
Vijayendra Rao ;
Simler,Kenneth
The Country Opinion Survey in Costa Rica assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Costa Rica perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from ...
Type: ReportReport#: 194497Date: November 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) aim to present comparable estimates of governance quality across countries and over time, using mostly publicly available datasets that are near-global in their...
By assessing these three fundamental domains comprehensively, the SDI survey delivers a holistic view of the current status of primary health care service delivery. While many data sources offer insights...
Type: ReportReport#: 189691Date: November 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
This year, the Subnational B-READY series cover 40 cities in six EU Member States—Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, and the Slovak Republic—covering 36 European regions. In Bulgaria, the Subnational...
Type: ReportReport#: 194485Date: November 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
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