Documents et rapports

Highlights of Malnutirtion in Punjab Province : A Challenge Underminiding the Country’s Human Development Potential (anglais)

Pakistan is currently facing a triple burden of malnutrition with unabated rates of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies along with overweight and obesity. Punjab demonstrates better nutrition outcomes...

Highlights of Malnutirtion in Sindh Province : A Challenge Underminiding the Country’s Human Development Potential (anglais)

Pakistan is currently facing a triple burden of malnutrition with unabated rates of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies along with overweight and obesity. Pakistan has the largest population of...

Saving Lives through Technology : Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality (anglais)

Digital technologies can expand access to health services to underserved populations. This paper leverages mobile network expansion and survey data spanning two decades to study the impact of access to...

Federalism and Public Expenditure for Human Development in Nepal - an Emerging Agenda (anglais)

Despite the Government of Nepal’s success in reducing poverty, progress in human capital remains limited. According to the Human Capital Index, a Nepali child born today can expect to attain only 50 percent...

How Many Infants May Have Died in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries in 2020 Due to the Economic Contraction Accompanying the COVID-19 Pandemic? Mortality Projections Based on Forecasted Declines in Economic Growth (anglais)

While COVID-19 has a relatively small direct impact on infant mortality, the pandemic is expected to indirectly increase mortality of this vulnerable group in low-income and middle-income countries through...

Official Documents- Disbursement and Financial Information Letter for Additional Financing Grant D857-SO (anglais)

Nigeria - Improved Child Survival Program for Human Capital MPA Project : Environmental Assessment : Updated Environmental and Social Management Framework (anglais)

The development objective of the Improved Child Survival Program for Human Capital Multi-Phased Approach (MPA) Project for Nigeria is to improve the utilization of immunization plus and malaria services...

The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies (anglais)

In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown...

Perceptions, Contagion, and Civil Unrest (anglais)

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between citizens' perceptions of economic and political conditions and the incidence of nonviolent uprisings. Perceptions are measured by aggregating...

Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences – Singapore (anglais)

Singapore has demonstrated that investing in human capital can have a high payoff and that nothing is impossible. Its example should inspire others to redouble their own efforts, not to replicate the model...

Burkina Faso- Transport and Urban Infrastructure Development Project- Audit report for the year ended December 31, 2019 – French : Burkina Faso- Transport and Urban Infrastructure Development Project- Audit report for the year ended December 31, 2019 French (anglais)

Quality of Clinical Assessment and Child Mortality : A Three-Country Cross-Sectional Study (anglais)

This analysis describes specific gaps in the quality of health care in Central Africa and assesses the association between quality of clinical care and mortality at age 2–59 months. Regionally representative...

Preventing More Missing Girls : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference (anglais)

In parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, resulting in the excess mortality of girls and skewing child sex ratios...

Nigeria - Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transforming Services Project (anglais)

The objective of the Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transforming Services Project for Nigeria is to reduce under-five mortality rate in program areas. The Project has...

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Healthy States Progressive India : Reports on the Ranks of States and Union Territories (anglais)

NITI Aayog has been mandated with transforming India by exercising thought leadership and by invoking the instruments of co-operative and competitive federalism, focusing the attention of the State governments...

2018-19 Audit Report - IREDA PFS (anglais)

Nigeria - Improved Child Survival Program for Human Capital MPA Project : Environmental Assessment : Healthcare Waste Management Plan (anglais)

The development objective of the Improved Child Survival Program for Human Capital Multi-Phased Approach (MPA) Project for Nigeria is to improve the utilization of immunization plus and malaria services...

Remarks by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the 2019 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (arabe)

These remarks were delivered by David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, at the 2019 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). He spoke about the importance of accelerating progress...

Remarks by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the 2019 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (français)

These remarks were delivered by David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, at the 2019 UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). He spoke about the importance of accelerating progress...