This report seeks to identify Jamaica’s main jobs problems, analyze their underlying causes, and provide policy options to foster debate on how to improve job outcomes. Utilizing a diagnostic approach...
The COVID-19 pandemic shows that digital connectivity is critical to societal resilience and business continuity in times of crisis. For digital infrastructure providers in emerging markets, higher demand...
This paper introduces a variety of concepts and methods to examine living standards improvements in Nepal in a dynamic perspective. Using data from three rounds of Nepal living standards surveys conducted...
The World Bank Group and its Archives provides different ways in which you can learn about and access records related to projects such as the Bali Tourism Project. The Projects and Operations page for...
Increased debt stress can result in social unrest and serious political repercussions. The recent debt-related fall-out in India captured international headlines and highlighted the extent to which debt...
Increased debt stress can result in social unrest and serious political repercussions. The recent debt-related fall-out in India captured international headlines and highlighted the extent to which debt...
Increased debt stress can result in social unrest and serious political repercussions. The recent debt-related fall-out in India captured international headlines and highlighted the extent to which debt...
Increased debt stress can result in social unrest and serious political repercussions. The recent debt-related fall-out in India captured international headlines and highlighted the extent to which debt...
Knowledge has always been central to development. A thousand years ago the Arab civilization led the world in knowledge, prosperity, and development. More generally, the Arab world is currently undergoing...
In the Middle East and North Africa (MNA), 2011 was a particularly slow year for infrastructure projects. Only two new infrastructure projects reached financial or contractual closure in low and middle...
An abundance of natural resources is intuitively expected to be a blessing. Nonetheless, it has been argued for some decades that large endowments of natural resources oil, gas, and minerals in particular...
Tunisia, like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in general, has long experienced unemployment, particularly among young university graduates. Unfortunately, job creation in existing enterprises...
On June 3, 2009, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number eighty-three. The government of the Republic of Kosovo had applied for admission to membership...
This paper deals with the effect of constitutional rules on agricultural policy outcomes in a panel of observations for more than 70 developing and developed countries in the 1955-2005 period. Testable...
The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) Stakeholders took place in Maseru, Lesotho, from 28 October to 3 November 2006, hosted by the Ministry of Public Works...
La réunion annuelle de 2006 des parties prenantes au Programme de transport pour l’Afrique subsaharienne (SSATP) a eu lieu à Maseru, au Lesotho, du 28 octobre au 3 novembre 2006. Le ministère des Travaux...
In recent years, the power sector in several developing countries has suffered from a frustrating gap between strong, pro-reform rhetoric at the political level, and weak, hesitant implementation of the...
A two-day workshop, organized by the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and Human Development (HD) departments, was held in June 2005 in the Dominican Republic with the objective...
A two-day workshop, organized by the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and Human Development (HD) departments, was held in June 2005 in the Dominican Republic with the objective...
This study's objective was to evaluate Energy Efficiency in Urban Water Utilities to test the common assumption that there existed an enormous energy reduction potential in the water utilities in the Former...