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  • Measuring, Reporting, and Verifying (MRV) Carbon Credits (English)

    Sustainable development experts and policy makers expect carbon markets to drive climate finance and help meet climate goals. Carbon pricing and carbon markets continue to evolve and grow. New schemes...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 197669 Document Date: February 28, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • The Role of Subnational Studies in Driving Regulatory Reforms (English)

    The World Bank’s Subnational Business Ready (Subnational B-READY) project, the successor to the Subnational Doing Business reports, offers a comprehensive framework for evaluating local business environments...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 197458 Document Date: February 5, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Maksym Iavorskyi,Sutanovac, Predrag

  • Digital Health Maturity Assessments and Toolkits (English)

    Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184557 Document Date: January 20, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Data Governance in Health (English)

    Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184558 Document Date: January 20, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Regulatory Sandboxes for Digital Health (English)

    Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care, can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 196486 Document Date: January 17, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Crops, Conflict and Climate Change (English)

    This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The underlying model is...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS11018 Document Date: January 7, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Erhan Artuc,Porto,Guido,Bob Rijkers

  • Jordan - Learning Poverty Brief - 2024 (English)

    Learning Poverty is unacceptably high. In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 190810 Document Date: November 18, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Uruguay Poverty and Equity Brief : October 2024 (English)

    The poverty rate in Uruguay - at 6.4 percent in 2022 under the $6.85 (2017 PPP) per day international line - is low compared to the region. However, poverty reduction has stalled in recent years. Despite...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 196314 Document Date: October 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Samoa Poverty and Equity Brief : October 2024 (English)

    The latest household income and expenditure survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Samoa was conducted in 2018. A new 2023 HIES dataset has been collected, but poverty estimates are not yet available...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 196316 Document Date: October 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Georgia Poverty and Equity Brief : October 2024 (English)

    Poverty is on a declining trend in Georgia, buoyed by recent robust economic growth and labor market improvements. Between 2016 and 2022, the poverty rate, measured by the international poverty line (below...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 196114 Document Date: October 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Guatemala Poverty and Equity Brief : October 2024 (English)

    The stagnation of poverty incidence (and the rise in inequality) occurred despite moderate economic growth, which averaged 3.5 percent over the past decade. This is partly due to barriers in the labor...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 196090 Document Date: October 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank