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  • South Asia Development Update, October 2024 : Women, Jobs, and Growth (English)

    South Asia’s growth is on track to exceed earlier expectations, in a broad-based upturn. The region is expected to remain the fastest-growing among emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Several...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 194232 Document Date: October 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Xiaoou Zhu

  • Status of Agricultural Reforms in Lithuania : 1995 to 1997 (English)

    Reforms in the Lithuanian food and agriculture sector started rather early, parallel with the struggle for independence. The country initiated a transition program in the food and agriculture sector to...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 189035 Document Date: April 8, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Csaki,Csaba,Meyers,William H.,Natalija Kazlauskiene

  • How Do Shifts in Land Tenure Affect Farmers in the Philippines? (English)

    Land titling interventions often span several years. The impacts of an intervention that subdivides collective land titles and issues individual titles can vary across individuals and time. The vast majority...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 185184 Document Date: October 13, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Sowing the Seeds of Equity and Prosperity : Agricultural Competitiveness in India (English)

    This note discusses agricultural competitiveness in India in recent years, while highlighting path-breaking innovations, interventions, and challenges on the road ahead. While India has evolved as a leader...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 191884 Document Date: October 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Manivannan Pathy,Shantanu Kumar,Deepti Kakkar

  • Fostering Early Childhood Development (English)

    This note presents a multisectoral examination of the national and provincial landscapes for ECD in Pakistan. It explains the critical importance of improving investments and services for young children...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 182965 Document Date: June 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Boosting Nutrition (English)

    Malnutrition is one of Pakistan’s biggest development challenges, with long-term implications for human capital development and economic growth. The proportions of young children stunted (40 percent)...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 182967 Document Date: June 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Pakistan’s Human Capital : Opportunities Amid Crises (English)

    Pakistan faces a human capital crisis. Its population, three-quarters of which is under the age of 35, has very recent memories of failures in the schooling system and in health services. Federal and provincial...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 182966 Document Date: June 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • 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

  • Providing Education to All Children (English)

    This note develops back-of-the-envelope estimates of what it would cost to provide all children with a life raft: schooling at a minimum quality level to achieve literacy and develops a framework of interventions...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 182968 Document Date: June 20, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Local Insights into Social Resilience and Climate Change in Solomon Islands (English)

    This research paper focuses on building the social resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change in Solomon Islands. Grounded in extensive field work incorporating qualitative and quantitative...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 180832 Document Date: March 15, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cox,John Charles Nicholas,Mcdonald,Paul Lachlan,Clemo,John Julian,Ramsay,Rebekah Beatrice,Maetala,Ruth Jazarr Basi Afia,Naidoo,Darian,Woo,Sonya