Documents & Reports
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Guidance Note on Designing and Implementing Quality Early Learning Environment Principles in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (English)
Strengthening the learning environment in Early Childhood Education (ECE) is crucial for enhancing children’s learning experiences. A quality learning environment in ECE is characterized by dynamic opportunities...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 197493 Document Date: November 30, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: El Nahass, Nevine,Ayah Mohammad Moied Issam Jarrah,Magreth Paul Mziray
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Une Évaluation de l'État de Préparation Numérique des Écoles Secondaires en République Démocratique du Congo (French)
Malgré les progrès réalisés dans l'élargissement de l'accès à l'enseignement primaire, en raison de la mise en oeuvre de la politique de gratuité de l'enseignement primaire et de l'enseignement secondaire...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 194681 Document Date: September 30, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Christiane Wendy Voufo,Frederico Carvalho,Leonce Kazumba,Malu, Ra?ssa,Yevgeniya Savchenko
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An Assessment of Digital Readiness of Secondary Schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo (English)
This paper aims to assess the readiness of public secondary schools across different provinces in the DRC to adopt technology that supports the development of digital skills. To this end, nine key factors...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 194681 Document Date: September 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Christiane Wendy Voufo,Frederico Carvalho,Leonce Kazumba,Malu,Ra?ssa,Yevgeniya Savchenko
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Gender and Informal Work in Thailand (English)
Thailand has made good progress in closing gender gaps in various dimensions, especially human capital development. However, the progress, though obvious, has not done much to get rid of the main deterrents...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184842 Document Date: September 11, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Paweenawat,Sasiwimon Warunsiri
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Building Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems in Africa : A Summary of Findings and Recommendations from Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessments (CHVAs) Funded by AFRI-RES Across Four Countries (English)
The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) is a partnership between the Africa Union, African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184676 Document Date: August 29, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Experiences in Linking Micro- and Smallholder Farmers to Markets (English)
In Zambia, poverty remains high and largely concentrated in remote places, with an estimated poverty incidence of 76.5 percent in rural areas in 2015, and likely worsening since then. The bulk of the rural...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184531 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sparkman,Timothy Patrick,Sackett,Jill Floyd,Avalos,Jorge Eduardo,Paul,Boban Varghese
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (English)
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been developing rapidly and has attracted significant attention in recent years, with numerous advances and breakthroughs. The generative AI market is expected...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 183880 Document Date: July 7, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Allford,Jason Michael,Karacaoglu,Yusuf,Mocan,Stela,Park,Jinhee,Kim,Yongdae-000594720,Kawashima,Yusaku
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Improving Labor Market Outcomes of the Poor (English)
The policy note builds on the relationship between human capital and labor market outcomes for the poor and reviews some of the few programs currently active for ad dressing the needs of the poor. It describes...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 182969 Document Date: June 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Knowledge Note: Foundational Element - Capacity Building at Local Level for Compact Cities in Bulgaria (Bulgarian|English)
The lack of local capacity is often sighted across Bulgaria and the European Union (EU) as a reason for slow absorption rates or slow progress toward development results. Local government capacity is essential...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 182947 Document Date: June 19, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Key Ingredients to Women’s Legal Rights in Kenya (English)
Legislative reforms to increase gender equality before the law are often long and complex processes. This brief focuses on a series of reforms in Kenya, specifically, the adoption of the Sexual Offenses...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 170028 Document Date: March 24, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Githae,Catherine Nyaguthii,Galiano,Emilia,Nyagah,Fredrick Josphat Kibuti,Isabel Micaela Santagostino Recavarren
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Monitoring COVID-19 Impact on Households in Zimbabwe : Results from the Fifth Round Frequency Telephone Survey of Households (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 191293 Document Date: March 19, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Entering the 5G Era : Lessons from Korea (English)
In April 2019, the Republic of Korea launched the world’s first smart phone based, business-to-consumer (B2C) 5G commercial services. In two years, the country’s 5G subscribers surpassed 13 million, accounting...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 160616 Document Date: June 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hong,Een Kee,Ryu,Je Myung,Lee,Elyse Jee Hyun
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Gambia, The - COVID-19 Impact on Households’ Well Being Monitoring from March to April 2021 (English)
This note uses data from the High Frequency Survey on the COVID-19 Impacts on Households to derive results. It briefly addresses the following: Covid-19 update; employment; Covid-19 impact on persons with...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 167560 Document Date: March 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Potential Failure Mode Analysis (English)
Potential failure modes analysis (PFMA) is a process to systematically identify, describe, and evaluate the ways in which a dam and its appurtenant structures could fail under postulated loading conditions...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 158493 Document Date: January 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Navigating through COVID-19 : A Snapshot on How the Pandemic Affected MSMEs in Uganda (English)
This note focuses on how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are affected by the pandemic and are dealing with its impact in Uganda. This note is a part of a series that provides snapshots of the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 157656 Document Date: January 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ferber,Tim,Buri,Sinja
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Indonesia COVID-19 Observatory : Impacts on Digital Merchants : Insights from the Bukalapak - World Bank Survey : May 20 to June 27, 2020 (English)
This brief was produced under the World Bank’s Indonesia Covid-19 Observatory, a partnership among multiple Global Practices at the Bank that aims to generate near-real-time insights on the impact of the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154143 Document Date: October 14, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wihardja,Maria Monica,Putri,Mayla Safuro Lestari
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The Firm-Level Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic : Summary of Results from Third Round (English)
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level survey to provide quantitative evidence of the impact of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Three rounds of data have been collected in May, July, and August...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 153585 Document Date: October 2, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The Firm-Level Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic : Summary of Results from Third Round (Burmese)
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level survey to provide quantitative evidence of the impact of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Three rounds of data have been collected in May, July, and August...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 153585 Document Date: October 2, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Don’t Let a Crisis go to Waste - Reshaping the Economy through ‘No-Regret’ Policies (Vietnamese)
Vietnam has the unique opportunity to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis. While the future is hard to predict, most would agree that the world will look very different in the post coronavirus era. There...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 149279 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Don’t Let a Crisis go to Waste - Reshaping the Economy through ‘No-Regret’ Policies (English)
Vietnam has the unique opportunity to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis. While the future is hard to predict, most would agree that the world will look very different in the post coronavirus era. There...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 149279 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed