IFC invests directly in
companies’ and financial institutions’
equity and also through private equity funds. IFC encourages
companies it invests in to...
Type: BriefReport#: 195333Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
At the national level, the incidence of
poverty has seemingly plateaued between 2018-2019 and
2021-2022. Despite this, the absolute number of impoverished
individuals...
Type: ReportReport#: 191124Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Batana,Yele Maweki ;
Doumbia,Macoura
Although female labor force
participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the
lowest in the world, there is a lack of studies on the
effects of the COVID-19...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10801Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Dang,Hai-Anh H. ;
Salehi Isfahani,Djavad ;
Do,Minh N. N.
ESMAP’s Sustainable Cooling
Program and SEforAll prepared this report to stimulate
discussion and action among stakeholders on the urgent need
for significantly...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 190779Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Blyth,Leo Joseph ;
Hartley,Benjamin Michael
MSME financing is a significant part of
IFC’s business. IFC works across emerging markets
to improve financial infrastructure and scale new tools to
deliver impactful...
Type: BriefReport#: 193539Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
At national level, the incidence of
poverty in Mali increased by 3.4 percentage point from 42.1
percent in 2018 to 45.5 percent in 2022. This increase is
largely driven...
Type: ReportReport#: 191126Date: June 12, 2024Author:
Doumbia,Macoura ;
Batana,Yele Maweki
The report (Volume 1) is structured in
the following way: The first section provides an overview
ofthe condition of the physical infrastructure and some of
the challenges...
Type: ReportReport#: 191123Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
Poverty increased by 1.8 percentage
points between 2018-2019 and 2021-2022, largely driven by
increased poverty in urban areas and the Sahel region. Urban
poverty increased...
Type: ReportReport#: 191125Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
At the national level, the incidence of
poverty in Chad has increased by 2.5 percentage points,
rising from 42.3 percent in 2018 to 44.8 percent in 2022.
This increase...
Type: ReportReport#: 191117Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
The WBG's mission is to work across
the housing value chain to enable and deepen the market. For
more than 30 years, IFC has supported the expansion of
residential mortgage...
Type: BriefReport#: 193535Date: June 12, 2024Author:
World Bank
This FY24 Annual Review Report marks the
penultimate document under the second phase of the five-year
Office Support Agreement (OSA 2.0) between the Malaysian
Government...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 191067Date: June 11, 2024Author:
Tan,Mei Ling ;
Abrigo,Vincent M. ;
Samantha Pheh Pek Nee ;
Rusman,Arifurrahman Bin
Climate change will likely be the most
critical threat to private sector resilience in the coming
years. Despite Georgia’s relatively small
contribution to global...
The document collection focuses on
strategies to manage vaccine misinformation and increase
vaccine acceptance and uptake. It delves into effective
crisis communication...
Type: ReportReport#: 191100Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper examines how an earthquake in
Papua New Guinea changed people’s attitudes about
and the prevalence of intimate partner violence. Although
there are...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10799Date: June 11, 2024Author:
Leng,Alyssa Amanda ;
Tandon,Sharad Alan
Caribbean countries have high exposure
and vulnerability to frequent and costly disasters caused by
natural hazards. In addition to steep topography, countries
in the...
Health care systems must be prepared to
address the expanding and complex needs of an aging
population. Rather than a “silver
challenge,” this situation...
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
lays out the World Bank strategy for supporting Tanzania in
realizing its vision to consolidate its status as a
middle-income...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: CPF0000021Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Tax evaders exploit vulnerabilities in
the tax legal framework, processes and revenue collection
system. Countries need to improve their defense mechanisms
to prevent,...
Type: ReportReport#: 191074Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the wake of the pandemic, the
greatest obstacle to COVID-19 vaccination in the Caribbean
is vaccine acceptance and uptake rather than supply. Social
media surveys...
Type: ReportReport#: 191104Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
After several years of negative shocks,
global growth is expected to hold steady in 2024 and then
edge up in the next couple of years, in part aided by
cautious monetary...
Type: ReportReport#: 191093Date: June 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
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