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The Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan: Ramping Up Development-Centered Climate Action

nomic growth and shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa will be increasingly undermined if vulnerabilities to climate change are not addressed. Climate…...
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The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Improving Education Outcomes

majority of the worlds children live in countries where local governments are responsible for the provision of basic education services. Although subnational…...
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Boosting Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa : Policies and Institutions to Promote Efficiency

s book documents the productivity trends in Sub-Saharan Africa in three different dimensions, assessing productivity at the aggregate level, the sectoral…...
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Assessing the Economic Impact Of COVID-19 and Policy Responses In Sub-Saharan Africa

wth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5…...
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Global Economic Prospects, January 2022

global recovery is set to decelerate amid diminished policy support, continued COVID-19 flare-ups, and lingering supply bottlenecks. In contrast to that in…...
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Publication: Global Economic Prospects, June 2024

er several years of negative shocks, global growth is expected to hold steady in 2024 and then edge up in the next couple of years, in part aided by cautious…...
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Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022 : State of the Sector

more than a decade, the biennial Off-Grid Solar (OGS) Market Trends Report (MTR) has been the anchor of the World Bank Lighting Global/GOGLA franchise of…...
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The Fiscal Impact and Policy Response to COVID-19

outbreak was declared a pandemic by the WHO on March 11 and the epicenter of the crisis has moved from China and Korea to the US and Western Europe.…...
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The State of the Political Instability and Its Impact on Trade in South Sudan: A Critical Assessment

December 2013, South Sudan descended into a civil war following the long feud between the president and his vice president that has caused huge humanitarian…...
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G5 Sahel Region Country Climate and Development Report

five countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger (the G5) in the Sahel region of Africa are among the least developed countries in the world…...