The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for timely information to help monitor and mitigate the socio-economic impact of the crisis. This information is essential to inform policy measures for protecting...
Economic activity in the six South East European countries (SEE6) is picking up speed, and growth in the region is expected to average 1.8 percent for 2015. While the recovery has encouraged job creation...
The Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) database monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. RPW was launched by the World Bank in September 2008, and remains a key tool to monitor...
This newsletter includes the following headings: latest drought situation; country situation of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger; and World Bank response.
This issue relates to three types of concern about Russia's current development: 1) the role played by higher export prices for oil and gas in economic performance, i.e. the extent to which economic activity...
This issue relates to three types of concern about Russia's current development: 1) the role played by higher export prices for oil and gas in economic performance, i.e. the extent to which economic activity...
The physico-chemical composition of groundwater plays an important role in the study of groundwater quality, not only because of its impact on health, but also because of its effect on user acceptance...
More than most of the economies of Eastern Europe that made up the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), the Czechoslovak economy had depended on the Soviet Union for low-cost raw materials imports...