An Investment Framework for Nutrition: Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting estimates the costs, impacts, and financing scenarios to achieve the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia in women, exclusive breastfeeding and the scaling up of the treatment of severe wasting among young children. To reach these four targets, the world needs US$70 billion over 10 years to invest in high-impact nutrition-specific interventions. This investment would have enormous benefits: 65 million cases of stunting and 265 million cases of...
An Investment Framework for Nutrition: Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting estimates the costs, impacts, and ...
The Dominican Republic stands out as a fast growing economy that has not been able to generate a commensurate reduction in poverty. Three reasons have been raised before to explain this conundrum: (i) a labor market that does not translate productivity gains into salary increases; (ii) a domestic economy with weak inter-sectoral linkages; (iii) and a public sector that does not spend enough nor particularly well to reduce poverty. In addition, the country remains largely exposed to natural disasters and exogenous shocks that, if not mitigated properly, may affect the sustainability of growth...
The Dominican Republic stands out as a fast growing economy that has not been able to generate a commensurate reduction in poverty. Three reasons have...
The Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) Survey is an initiative of the World Bank in cooperation with other development partners and nongovernmental agencies and carried out in more than 14 countries globally. In Ghana, the first phase of the survey focusing on adults in urban communities was carried out in cooperation with the University of Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), the Ministry of Education, the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).
The Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) Survey is an initiative of the World Bank in cooperation with other development partners and nong...
Higher education (HE) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has expanded dramatically in the last fifteen years, as the average gross enrollment rate has grown from 21% to 43% between 2000 and 2013, and many new institutions and programs have opened. While HE access has become more equitable, and HE supply has become more varied, many of the system's "new" students are, on average, less academically ready than their more advantaged counterparts. Furthermore, only half of HE students, on average, complete their degree; while still high, labor market returns to HE are declining, and vary...
Higher education (HE) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has expanded dramatically in the last fifteen years, as the average gross enrollment...
Named peril index insurance has great potential to address unmet risk management needs for agricultural insurance in developing economies, potentially contributing to increased agricultural sustainability and improved food security.
However, the development and appraisal of index insurance business lines is not without challenges. Insurers must rigorously evaluate the quality of the products they offer and take care to ensure that distributors and policyholders understand the benefits and limits of the purchased coverage. Without these important steps to ensure responsible...
Named peril index insurance has great potential to address unmet risk management needs for agricultural insurance in developing economies, potentia...
Morocco 2040: Emerging by Investing in Intangible Capital documents the major economic and social strides made by Morocco over the past 15 years and analyses the policies and political economy conditions for accelerating the pace of economic catch-up by 2040.
Morocco 2040: Emerging by Investing in Intangible Capital documents the major economic and social strides made by Morocco over the past 15 years and a...
Reviews the trends in tax revenue collection in developing countries. The book reviews the special challenges facing low income countries, which have traditionally relied on indirect revenues in the context of limited formalization of their economies.
Reviews the trends in tax revenue collection in developing countries. The book reviews the special challenges facing low income countries, which have ...
Provides an understanding of the evolving aged care landscape in China; reviews international experiences in long-term care provision, financing, and quality assurance, and assesses their relevance to China; discusses implications of current developments and trends for the future of aged care in China; and proposes policy options.
Provides an understanding of the evolving aged care landscape in China; reviews international experiences in long-term care provision, financing, and ...
Central America has come a long way both in terms of economic and political stability. Increasingly the region is focusing on implementing productivity-enhancing reforms as well as supporting reductions in poverty and inequality. This report analyzes recent trends in public social spending in Central America from 2007 to 2014, conducts international benchmarking, examines measures of the effectiveness and efficiency of social spending, and discusses the quality of selected institutions influencing this spending. We examine total social spending, as well as detailing its four components:...
Central America has come a long way both in terms of economic and political stability. Increasingly the region is focusing on implementing producti...
Morocco 2040 documents the major economic and social strides made by Morocco in recent decades and analyses the obstacles that it must overcome in order to ensure that the economic catch-up process underway in the country can be accelerated and will pave the way for sustainable economic convergence.
Morocco 2040 documents the major economic and social strides made by Morocco in recent decades and analyses the obstacles that it must overcome in ord...
