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This is a companion to the Global Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and broadest commodity boom of the post-WWII period. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the boom was fueled by numerous factors...
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actions taken (Section 2); a climate risk exposure landscape based on quantitative analysis deriving country pension fund … climate risk scores (Section 3); a complementary regulatory mapping and score that uses a combined quantitative and …
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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...
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which …
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This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …
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availability of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19, the World Bank together with WHO, UNICEF, the Global Fund, and Gavi …
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In the face of the global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the World Bank delivered the …
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, 2023, the World Bank carried out a remote, desk-based assessment of the physical damages in Syria using the Global RApid … post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology. The objective of the assessment is to develop a model-based estimate …
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This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps … Evaluation Group evaluation looks at the World Bank Group support to address the economic implications of the pandemic. To assess … the quality of the response, the evaluation is guided by a theory of action that synthesizes evidence in three dimensions …
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …
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