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The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature― and current levels of … World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) in 2022. This core diagnostic tool aims to help … global climate change challenge. The first set of CCDRs covered only 10 percent of the world’s tropical forests, but the …
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-related special theme. At the same time, the World Bank Group expanded and deepened its attention to jobs, resulting in an …
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. This evaluation focuses on the World Bank Group's approaches to DSEE and opportunities to scale them up, and proposes four …
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This evaluation provides an early-stage assessment of the Sustainable Development Finance Policy (SDFP) of the International Development Association (IDA), which went into effect July 1, 2020. A steep rise in debt vulnerabilities in IDA-eligible countries over the past decade highlighted...
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The World Bank Group has developed a new Strategy focusing on the ambitious goals of ending extreme poverty and …
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development goals and complements the extensive work conducted by the United Nations1 and other institutions, including the World …
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the poorest and most vulnerable people. Globally, about 4.5 billion people, more than half of the world population, lack …, demographic, and political trends which threaten to reverse hard-won health gains around the world …
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Today's global challenges are bigger, more complex, and more intertwined than ever before, from the relentless grip of poverty and stubborn persistence of inequality to the devastations caused by climate disasters, fragility, pandemics, and conflicts. Financing and investments alone cannot solve...
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Lebanon is hit by yet another crisis: the spillover effects of the conflict in the Middle East. While the country remains mired in political and institutional vacuum, and a crippling socioeconomic crisis for over four years, it has now been hit by another large shock: fear that the current...
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Growth in Emerging East Asia accelerated to reach 8.1 percent in 2006. This was the strongest pace of economic expansion in the last ten years and a fitting commemoration of the decade that has passed since the start of the Asian financial crisis in 1997. The region's accomplishments in...
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