Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 254
Cover Image
Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644298
Cover Image
Gender Dimensions of Cross-Border Trade in Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2023
impact all traders similarly. Studies by the World Bank, for example, found that men and women traders often face different …- specific associations. This study in Tajikistan explored a range of topics, primarily within the scope of the World Trade … crossings in the country. The work was built upon a similar methodology developed and used in other surveys by the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312754
Cover Image
The Impacts of Disaster Risk on Sovereign Asset and Liability Management
World Bank Group - 2021
Implicit contingent liabilities, such as those generated by natural disasters, are often not quantified in the government balance sheet. However, when they materialize, they place pressure on government finances that may raise interest expenditures and financial risks. Understanding the impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700730
Cover Image
Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs - Renewables Sector
World Bank Group - 2023
renewable energy (solar and wind) infrastructure projects procured through PPPs. It complements the World Bank Group's Climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014579252
Cover Image
Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs : Renewables Sector
World Bank Group - 2023
renewable energy (solar and wind) infrastructure projects procured through PPPs. It complements the World Bank Group's Climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366515
Cover Image
Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2019 : So When Gravity Beckons, the Poor Don't Fall
World Bank Group - 2019
even prior to the eruption of the demonstrations, the World Bank projected a small recession in 2019; we now estimate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646848
Cover Image
Opening for Business : Myanmar Diagnostic Trade Integration Study
World Bank Group - 2016
(LCDs), which Myanmar joined in April 2013, the Government of Myanmar has asked the World Bank Group (WBG) to be the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644488
Cover Image
Kenya Public Expenditure Analysis 2019 : Creating Fiscal Space to Deliver the Big Four while Undertaking a Needed Fiscal Consolidation
World Bank Group - 2019
The Kenyan government remains committed to a planned fiscal consolidation pathway, which should help contain public debt stock at a sustainable level. Nonetheless, there are significant challenges stemming from a slowdown in revenue collection, a growing demand for transfers to county...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646367
Cover Image
Information and Communication Technology for Disaster Risk Management in Japan : How Digital Solutions are Leveraged to Increase Resilience through Improving Early Warnings and Dis...
World Bank Group - 2019
Breakthroughs in information and communication technology (ICT) increasingly offer new tools to support disaster risk management (DRM). Due to the rapid advancement of computing and communication devices, ICT's capacity to improve the DRM framework became a critical factor to strengthen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646677
Cover Image
Managing the Public Sector Wage Bill during COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis is unique and requires tough policy choices for managing the public sector wage bill to best achieve the difficult balance between fiscal consolidation, protection of lives and livelihoods, service delivery, and job restoration. In the emergency phase, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647433