The objective of this project was to update the Green Value Chain Explorer (FURL: GVCE/), a userfriendly, interactive dissemination dashboard that visualizes metrics for countries’ strengths and opportunities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 196267Date: December 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objective of this project was to update the Green Value Chain Explorer (FURL: GVCE/), a user-friendly, interactive dissemination dashboard that visualizes metrics for countries’ strengths and opportunities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 196267Date: December 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document collection explores the challenges and opportunities facing local governments in a region. It examines how to improve data platforms and user engagement, the impact of decentralization on...
Type: ReportReport#: 195874Date: December 20, 2024Author:
Simon O’Meally ;
Julia Katharina Baer ;
Monica Beuran
The recognition that economies are embedded within and dependent on nature is growing, with nature itself being seen as an asset to the economy. As the impacts of climate and biodiversity crises become...
Type: PublicationReport#: 195867Date: December 20, 2024
This low-income countries debt sustainability analysis (LIC-DSA) provides a streamlined update to the April 2024 LIC-DSA, adding two elements: (i) US 125 million dollars under the World Bank’s Development...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 195794Date: December 20, 2024
Until the beginning of this century, the GATT/WTO system worked. Economic research provided a compelling explanation. It showed that if governments maximize the well-being of their own countries broadly...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11009Date: December 19, 2024Author:
Aaditya Mattoo ;
Ruta,Michele ;
Staige,Robert W.
Public procurement in North Macedonia amounted to 16 percent of total government expenditure in 2018, or 5 percent of gross domestic product. The country’s public procurement is also vulnerable to corruption...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11007Date: December 19, 2024Author:
Fazekas,Mihaly ;
Abdou,Aly ;
Ibrahimi,Klea ;
Tóth,Bence ;
Veljanov,Zdravko
People in many parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are exposed to more toxic particulate matter (PM) air pollution than their neighbors in Western Europe. This is especially true for residents in urban...
Type: ReportReport#: 195727Date: December 19, 2024Author:
Clemens Bernhard Gros ;
Tais, Plamenko ;
Huskanovic, Aldin ;
Esma Kreso ;
Maja Murisic ;
Klas Sander
The public and private sectors each play a role driving development of a “green” digital sector. This guide provides inspiration for practitioners on ways to promote greener telecommunications (telecom)...
Type: ReportReport#: 195726Date: December 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emissions from the agrifood system are so big that they alone could cause the world to miss...
Type: ReportReport#: 190642Date: December 19, 2024Author:
William R. Sutton ;
Alexander Lotsch ;
Ashesh Prasann
This paper examines the evolution of greenfield investment announcements—both domestic and international—for US multinational companies in response to recent global shocks. The results indicate an intensification...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11006Date: December 19, 2024Author:
Alen Mulabdic ;
Gaurav Nayyar
Worldwide, account ownership increased by 50 percent in the 10 years spanning 2011 to 2021, to reach 76 percent of the global adult population. The goal of financial inclusion is not just for more adults...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11008Date: December 19, 2024Author:
Leora Klapper
Forced displacement is increasingly urban and protracted, presenting a developmental challenge for cities that host displaced populations. The abrupt arrival of many displaced people creates technical...
Type: ReportReport#: 195721Date: December 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in the Solomon Islands assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in
better understanding how the Solomon Islands stakeholders perceive the WBG. It provides
the WBG with systematic...
Type: ReportReport#: 197462Date: December 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) was launched in 2017 as an international partnership to support countries to meet the targets related to water and sanitation under the Sustainable...
Type: ReportReport#: 195792Date: December 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
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