The development objective of the Inclusive and Resilient Cities Development Project for Cameroon is to improve urban management and access to infrastructure in selected urban areas, particularly for poor...
Ratings of Accelerating Uzbekistan's Transition Development Policy Operation (DPO) Project for Uzbekistan were as follows: overall outcome was satisfactory, relevance of prior actions was highly satisfactory...
Inclusion is a key priority for the Bank as it tackles the current global challenges and tries to ensure sustainable development. A number of recent developments have put a spotlight on inclusion: The...
The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) authorities had been trying to set in motion a process to address the root cause of the region’s vulnerability - a largely undiversified economic...
The report is organized as follows: the first part gives an overview of recent economic and private sector trends, followed by an in-depth review of the cross-cutting constraints that affect private sector...
Fostering sustainable productivity growth to achieve economic transformation that creates better earning opportunities for more people, the jobs and economic transformation (JET) agenda, is a key priority...
This report is the first major deliverable of the ‘Jobs Platform’ programmatic ASA activity, which was established to support the delivery of better jobs outcomes in Nepal, with specific focus on low income...
The report presents an analysis of the jobs portfolio for Nepal covering WB operations as well as Development Partners' (DP) activities, with the objective of understanding the approach towards jobs specific...
Despite remarkable progress over the past decade, Bangladesh faces challenges in creating sufficient, quality jobs to meet the rapidly growing youth population. The government’s seventh five-year plan...
Jobs are an important part of Cambodia’s story of development success. There are eight million jobs in Cambodia, and eighty percent of Cambodian adults above the age of fifteen are working in contrast...
Jobs are an important part of Cambodia’s story of development success. There are eight million jobs in Cambodia, and eighty percent of Cambodian adults above the age of fifteen are working in contrast...
The combination of falling child mortality and high fertility rate led to annual population growth of 3 percent (4.1 percent in urban areas, 1.3 percent in rural areas) and rise in young dependency as...
Notes in this report present the nature of jobs in each sector (except the public sector), the challenges to improving these sectors, and recommended policies to develop sector-specific jobs strategies...
Notes in this report present the nature of jobs in each sector (except the public sector), the challenges to improving these sectors, and recommended policies to develop sector-specific jobs strategies...
Global Value Chains (GVC) are significant vehicles of job creation, carrying a share of 60 percent of global trade that employs around 17 million people worldwide. This note highlights evidence of the...
In Kosovo, only 1 out of every 8 women is formally employed, compared to 2 out of every 5 men. This asymmetry is even more pronounced in rural areas, where the combination of a lack of market-oriented...