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COVID-19 Increased Existing Gender Mortality Gaps in High-Income Countries More Than in Middle-Income Countries (الإنجليزية)

Men die at higher rates in nearly all places and at all ages beyond age 45. Using World Health Organization excess mortality estimates by sex and age groups for 75 countries in 2020 and 62 countries in...

Human Capital Umbrella Program - Investing in People to Meet Global Challenges : Annual Report 2023 (الإنجليزية)

The Human Capital Umbrella Program, launched in 2019 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Government of Canada, serves as a catalyst for accelerating investments in people. The...

Learning Poverty at the Local Level in Colombia (الإنجليزية)

This paper extends the concept of learning poverty to provide local-level estimates of the share of children at age 10 who can read and understand a simple text in Colombia. The learning poverty indicator...

COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves for 2020 Are Flatter in Developing Countries Using Both Official Death Counts and Excess Deaths (الإنجليزية)

Using official COVID-19 death counts for 64 countries and excess death estimates for 41 countries, this paper finds a higher share of pandemic-related deaths in 2020 were at younger ages in middle-income...

Undernutrition in the Philippines : Scale, Scope, and Opportunities for Nutrition Policy and Programming (الإنجليزية)

For nearly 30 years, the rates of both wasting and stunting in the Philippines have been nearly flat. For 2019, the rate of stunting among children under five years of age (28.8 percent) was only slightly...

COVID-19 Age-Mortality Curves Are Flatter in Developing Countries (الإنجليزية)

A greater share of reported COVID-19 deaths occur at younger ages in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared to high-income countries (HICs). Based on data from 26 countries, people age 70 and...

Why Are So Many Children Stunted in the Philippines ? (الإنجليزية)

Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is high for the country's level of income. This paper provides the first detailed multivariate...

Mind Over Matter in the Philippines : A Study of Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Childhood Stunting (الإنجليزية)

Declines in rates of child stunting in the Philippines have decelerated, making it hard for the country to achieve its targets on nutritional outcomes. The knowledge base, beliefs, and practices of caregivers...

Project Information Document - Philippines COVID-19 Emergency Response Project - P173877 (الإنجليزية)

Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) - Philippines COVID-19 Emergency Response Project - P173877 (الإنجليزية)

Appraisal Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Philippines COVID-19 Emergency Response Project - P173877 (الإنجليزية)

Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) - Philippines COVID-19 Emergency Response Project - P173877 (الإنجليزية)

Vietnam's Future Jobs : Leveraging Mega-Trends for Greater Prosperity (Vol. 2 of 4) : overview (الفييتنامية)

Vietnam's 50 million jobs are a cornerstone of its economic success. The transformation toward services and manufacturing, and impressive labor productivity and wage growth led to plunging poverty rates...

Vietnam's Future Jobs : Leveraging Mega-Trends for Greater Prosperity (Vol. 2 of 4) : overview (الإنجليزية)

Vietnam's 50 million jobs are a cornerstone of its economic success. The transformation toward services and manufacturing, and impressive labor productivity and wage growth led to plunging poverty rates...

Making growth work for the poor : a poverty assessment for the Philippines (الإنجليزية)

The report emphasizes the importance of breaking the cycle of inequitable investment in human capital and lack of well-paying job opportunities that trap the poor in poverty, generation after generation...

Philippines economic update : investing in the future (الإنجليزية)

In 2017, the Philippines was among the top three growth performers in the East Asia region. Only Vietnam and China performed better. The Philippines growth performance slightly weakened in 2017 to 6.7...

Employment structure and returns to skill in Vietnam : estimates using the labor force survey (الإنجليزية)

This paper uses Labor Force Survey data to assess key aspects of the labor market in Vietnam over 2007-14. The analysis finds large growth in wage employment in the foreign-owned and domestic private sectors...

East Asia and Pacific economic update : sustaining resilience (الإنجليزية)

Growth in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) continues to be resilient and in line with previous expectations. Already robust domestic demand has been supported by some pickup in external demand and...

Vietnam 2035 : toward prosperity, creativity, equity, and democracy (Vol. 2 of 2) : Việt Nam 2035 : Hướng tới Thịnh vượng, Sáng tạo, Công bằng và Dân chủ - Tổng quan (الفييتنامية)

The year 2015 marks 70 years since Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence, 40 years since Reunification, and just short of 30 years from the launch of Doi Moi, which catapulted the nation from the ranks...

Vietnam 2035 : toward prosperity, creativity, equity, and democracy (Vol. 2 of 2) : main report (الإنجليزية)

The year 2015 marks 70 years since Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence, 40 years since Reunification, and just short of 30 years from the launch of Doi Moi, which catapulted the nation from the ranks...