This report provides an assessment of the state of the economy in Bangladesh, the outlook, risks, and key reform challenges. It covers real sector developments, focusing on growth and its components; inflation;...
Health taxes are excise taxes that are applied to products that generate health related negative externalities and internalities, particularly tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). In...
The City Resilience Program was instrumental in strengthening the World Bank’s National Urban Cadaster and Municipal Support Project (US50 million dollars, approved in 2020). The project strengthens urban...
Extractive companies generate revenue through payment of taxes and royalties to government, but sometimes the results of these contributions are not seen or felt by local populations. Too often tax revenue...