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The Jobs Challenge in Bulgaria and Its Implications for Poverty and Income Inequality: Background report for the Bulgaria Poverty and Equity Assessment

Over the past decade, Bulgaria has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and expanding prosperity. Millions of ...
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A Household-Level Assessment of the Socioeconomic Impact of Sudan’s Conflict: Findings from the Sudan Welfare Monitoring Survey

This report assesses the socioeconomic impacts of Sudan’s conflict using data from the Sudan Welfare Monitoring Survey (SWMS) ...
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Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Bulgaria: Energy, Mobility, Geographic Disparities, and Distributional Impacts of Climate - Shock Policies

Climate change and climate mitigation policies affect poverty and inequality in Bulgaria through multiple, reinforcing channels, and their impacts fall unevenly across the income distribution. Poor ...
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Digitalization of Social Assistance Payments : A Stocktaking

This report examines the digitalization of government-to-person (G2P) social assistance payments across 383 programs in 123 countries. It analyzes payment methods, payment service providers, account ...
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Rethinking Health Systems: A Market Systems Framework for Engaging Private Providers at Scale

The Managing Markets for Health brief series explores how governments can effectively engage and steward the private health sector within mixed health systems to advance UHC and support the WBG’s goal ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Urban Awakening: Catalyzing Economic Growth and Job Creation

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly. Over the next 25 years, it will add 748 million people to its urban areas, roughly the same number as it has added over the past 50 years. By 2050, the region ...
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The Bangkok Blueprint for Fraud-Resilient Financial Services

This report introduces the Bangkok Blueprint for Fraud-Resilient Financial Services, launched during the 2026 IMF–WBG Annual ...
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Who Is the Private Health Sector? Understanding the Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Universal Health Coverage

The Managing Markets for Health brief series explores how governments can effectively engage and steward the private health sector within mixed health systems to advance UHC and support the WBG’s goal ...
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Formal Employment of Syrian Refugees in Turkish SMSEs: Employer Experience, Hiring Frictions, and Policy Priorities

This report presents baseline findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating such a program for Syrian refugees and ...
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Public-Private Collaboration in Health: From Market Failure to Public Value

The Managing Markets for Health brief series explores how governments can effectively engage and steward the private health sector within mixed health systems to advance UHC and support the WBG’s goal ...
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Dominica: Strengthening National Frameworks for Environmental and Social Risk Management

This study, carried out by the World Bank (WB) in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Caribbean ...
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Steering, Not Rowing Mixed Health Systems Through Effective Stewardship

The Managing Markets for Health brief series explores how governments can effectively engage and steward the private health sector within mixed health systems to advance UHC and support the WBG’s goal ...