Imaging and laboratory diagnostic equipment and services are crucial for achieving Universal Health Coverage; yet are mostly unavailable in low- and middle-income countries. To address these challenges...
Georgia has growing emissions with a large contribution from businesses. Georgian emissions have significantly increased in the last 15 years, albeit from a low level. Businesses (that is, industry, transport...
The Government of Kerala (GoK) is committed to using data-driven tools and services for resilience and has embarked upon several innovative data programs that address known gaps in the resilience related...
This report seeks to identify Jamaica’s main jobs problems, analyze their underlying causes, and provide policy options to foster debate on how to improve job outcomes. Utilizing a diagnostic approach...
The proposed diagnostic fills a void between widely available quantitative indicators and detailed diagnostics of the capacity of an NSS. Statistical capacity can readily be ranked across countries using...
Sri Lanka is a country of paradoxes. With the lowest poverty rates, best social indicators, and highest per capita income in South Asia, Sri Lanka’s economic performance since independence had generally...
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness around the world of the value of diagnostic tests. The presence of viable, accessible, cost-efficient testing laboratories can make all the difference to the...
Accounting for almost half of global gross domestic product and 70 percent of the world’s population, middle-income countries (MICs) face multiple development challenges limiting achievement of the Sustainable...
This Guidance Note outlines good practices on information-sharing across key areas in which the Bank and the IMF interact. It is based on the existing policies and legal frameworks of the two institutions...
Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved significant gains in reducing the levels of extreme poverty in recent decades, yet the region continues to experience challenges across the development indicators, including...