Turkmenistan is a land-locked, upper middle-income country, characterized by a rigid statist economic model, and driven by natural gas exports. Turkmenistan went through a period of adjustment as it first...
Um novo sistema tributário sobre o consumo no Brasil foi aprovado por emenda constitucional em dezembro de 2023, aguardando a definição da legislação infraconstitucional ainda em debate no Congresso em...
A new system of consumption taxes in Brazil was approved by constitutional amendment in December 2023, with infra-constitutional legislation under debate in Congress as of July 2024. This legislation will...
The conflict in the Middle East has been exerting upward pressures on prices of key commodities, notably oil and gold. High commodity prices, despite relatively subdued global GDP growth, suggest some...
Iraq’s economy is rebounding thanks to rising oil output and a recovery in domestic economic activity after the pandemic. Higher government oil revenues, driven by increased export prices and quantities...
Argentina is currently a net importer of natural gas and of refined petroleum products, and a net exporter of crude oil. It could however increase shale oil and gas production from the Vaca Muerta reservoir...
Ratings for the Biomass District Heating Project (BDHP) for Belarus were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was substantial. Some...
Ratings for the Petroleum Technical Assistance (TA) Project for Kenya were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was negligible...
World Bank economists forecast that the MENA region will grow by 5.5 percent in 2022 (the fastest rate since 2016) and by 3.5 percent in 2023. This average growth masks uneven patterns across countries...
Ratings for the Shanxi Gas Utilization Project for China were as follows: outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality...