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Gender and Digital Development in Thailand

World Bank - 2023

The wave of digital transformation has swept across the globe, with its pace significantly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which expedited the adoption of digital technologies by several years. However, this rapid digital metamorphosis is not without the risk of escalating gender...

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Mozambique Country Climate and Development Report

World Bank Group - 2023

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) captures the interplay between development challenges and climate change and climate policies in Mozambique, with the objective of identifying synergies and tradeoffs. The CCDR informs the World Bank Group's engagement in Mozambique, alongside...

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Global Economic Prospects, January 2024

World Bank - 2024

growth is expected to slow further this year, reflecting the lagged and ongoing effects of tight monetary policy to rein in … fragmentation, and climate-related disasters. Against this backdrop, policy makers face enormous challenges. In emerging market and … developing economies (EMDEs), commodity exporters face the enduring challenges posed by fiscal policy procyclicality and …

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Maldives Development Update, October 2023

World Bank - 2023

The economy has maintained its strong growth momentum, with the expansion in tourism, and poverty is expected to fall further in 2023. The number of tourist arrivals grew by 14 percent (y-o-y) to 1.25 million by early September 2023, reaching a historic high compared to similar periods in other...

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Regional Vaccine Manufacturing and Development

World Bank - 2023

COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the ASEAN region, which has recorded over 27 million cases of the virus. Despite rapid development of a range of COVID-19 vaccines using innovative technologies, access to these vaccines has been a challenge, with manufacturing mostly concentrated in the...

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Unlocking Green Logistics for Development

Bullock, Richard; Lawrence, Martha; Moody, Joanna - 2023

sources for warehousing. Chapter 6 brings together the various policy interventions and suggests how LMICs can analyze and …

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Unlocking Blue Carbon Development

World Bank - 2023

finance. The Blue Carbon Readiness Framework consists of three pillars: 1. Data and Analytics; 2. Policy and Institutions; 3 …

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Services, Jobs, and Economic Development in Africa

Baccini, Leonardo; Fiorini, Matteo; Hoekman, Bernard; … - 2022

This article presents data and analyzes the structure of employment in 13 African economies at the administrative unit level, with a focus on the role of services. We provide two novel pieces of evidence. First, we present a descriptive snapshot of changes in the composition of employment over...

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East Asia and the Pacific Macro Poverty Outlook

World Bank - 2023

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the East Asia and the Pacific region. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and...

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Seventh Ghana Economic Update

Corral Rodas, Paul Andres; Elmaleh, David; Kwakye, … - 2023

Ghana's economy entered a full-blown crisis in 2022, after having rebounded from the COVID-19 slowdown in 2021. In response to the macroeconomic challenges, the authorities enacted some fiscal adjustment in 2022 but fell short of their consolidation targets; the 2023Q1 fiscal deficit (cash) was...

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