Miscellaneous Knowledge Notes

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Knowledge, Data, and Information
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-03-26) World Bank
Africa has significant potential to improve its climate-smart sustainable development by focusing on the Blue Economy. However, efforts to reach this potential are stymied by poor access to relevant data and knowledge due to inadequate historical investments in technology and institutional capacity for modernization. Today, many opportunities exist to leapfrog traditional development paths by leveraging a new range of technologies. BlueTech refers to the innovative use of emerging technologies to scale up the development impact of the Blue Economy, while managing associated trade-offs. These technologies can potentially accelerate the expansion of the Blue Economy, but only if African countries invest in enabling infrastructure, capacity, and services to strengthen their technological innovation ecosystem. A robust technological backbone will better harness the power of the cloud, e-package data, and technological knowledge to enable new ways to collect, analyze, and share data, making it more accessible and usable. At the same time, it will facilitate the collaborative development of harmonized systems to generate insights into and support decisions relating to the Blue Economy.
Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystems
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-03-25) World Bank
The Blue Solutions for Africa series of operational briefs captures how a thriving Blue Economy can help African countries better manage the development challenges they face while supporting economic growth, sustainable livelihoods, and the health of these precious ecosystems.
Jobs and Livelihoods in the Blue Economy
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-03-17) World Bank
The World Bank Group supports climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience by promoting Blue Economy job growth in Africa and worldwide. From climate-smart and resilient urban development to improving economic participation and decision-making for marginalized groups, the World Bank Group works with a broad toolkit of financing solutions to support governments with on-the-ground development and institutional strengthening. The challenge is how to combine growing the Blue Economy with providing jobs for Africa’s working-age population, which is expected to grow to 450 million people by 2035. Critical governance and policy reforms for Africa’s Blue Economy include building public-sector capacity, aligning economic interests with long-term sustainability, and promoting conditions that encourage business growth in a sustainable seafood sector. Measuring the success of reforms on jobs and livelihoods can be challenging. Still, cutting-edge blue economy thinking reveals itself when the restoration of mangroves, seagrass beds, and dune vegetation, for example, is combined with successful climate-smart job and livelihood support in Africa.
Mapping Impact in Burkina Faso: Country-Level Impact of Adaptive Social Protection Programs in the Sahel
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-03-05) World Bank
In the Sahel, Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is a set of social protection policies, systems, and programs that promote human capital, productivity, and resilience of the poorest and strengthen their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks. Through the delivery of regular social safety nets, productive inclusion interventions, and shock-responsive programs, ASP has demonstrated strong positive impacts on various dimensions in the Sahel. For the poorest and most vulnerable, it has resulted in improvements in household welfare and food security, productivity, and resilience. More broadly, it has shown significant positive impacts on the economy, society, and future generations.
Mapping Impact in Senegal: Country-Level Impact of Adaptive Social Protection Programs in the Sahel
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-03-03) World Bank
In the Sahel, Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is a set of social protection policies, instruments and programs that promote human capital, productivity, and resilience of the poorest and strengthen their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks. Through the delivery of regular social safety nets, economic inclusion interventions, and shock-responsive programs, ASP has demonstrated strong positive impacts on various dimensions in the Sahel. For the poorest and most vulnerable, it has resulted in improvements in household welfare and food security, productivity, and resilience. More broadly, it has shown positive impacts on the economy, society, and future generations.
Mapping Impact in Niger: Country-Level Impact of Adaptive Safety Nets in the Sahel
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-02-26) World Bank
In the Sahel, Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is a set of social protection policies, systems, and programs that promote human capital, productivity, and resilience of the poorest and strengthen their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks. Through the delivery of regular social safety nets, economic inclusion interventions, and shock-responsive programs, ASP has demonstrated strong positive impacts on various dimensions of welfare in the Sahel. For the poorest and most vulnerable, it has resulted in improvements in household welfare and food security, productivity, and resilience. More broadly, it has shown significant positive impacts on the economy, society, and future generations.
Overcoming Intertwined Challenges to Reach Upper Middle Income Status in Bhutan by 2029
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-02-26) World Bank
The document collection focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing a nation striving to achieve upper-middle-income status. Despite recent economic growth and poverty reduction, the country faces structural obstacles, including a small domestic market, high trade costs, and limited private sector job opportunities. This has led to a reliance on the public sector and state-owned enterprises, with limited economic diversification and productivity improvements. The document highlights the need for a coalition of stakeholders, including citizens, civil society, the private sector, and development partners, to implement critical reforms and actions. These reforms aim to promote economic progress, invest in people, and contribute to a more livable planet. The document emphasizes the importance of strengthening the private sector, improving infrastructure, investing in education and healthcare, and promoting sustainable development through renewable natural resources.
Mapping Impact in Mali: Country-Level Impact of Adaptive Safety Nets in the Sahel
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-02-17) World Bank
In the Sahel, adaptive social protection (ASP) is a set of social protection policies, systems, and programs that promote human capital, productivity, and resilience of the poorest and strengthen their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to shocks. Through the delivery of regular social safety nets, economic inclusion interventions, and shock-responsive programs, ASP has demonstrated strong positive impacts on various dimensions in the Sahel. For the poorest and most vulnerable, it has resulted in improvements in household welfare and food security, productivity, and resilience. More broadly, it has shown significant positive impacts on the economy, society, and future generations.
Vietnam Macro Monitoring, January 2025
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-02-04) World Bank
Industrial production increased in December 2024. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) increased from 1.6 percent (m/m, SA) in November to 2.1 percent (m/m, SA) in December 2024, as businesses ramped up production to meet year-end consumer demand. The improvement is due to the increased production of key export products such as textiles, footwear, furniture, electronics, and electrical equipment. Manufacturing production for domestic consumption such as food and beverages also expanded. However, in terms of prospects, Viet Nam’s PMI was down from 50.8 in November to 49.8 in December, entering contractionary territory, as new orders growth slowed, while firms scaled back employment and inventories.
Education Finance Watch 2024
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-01-29) World Bank; UNESCO
To achieve their national and international education goals, many countries need to invest more and better in their education systems. During the last decade, total education spending by governments, households, and donors globally has increased steadily, but this has not led to significant increases in allocations per child, especially in poorer countries with their growing populations. Total education spending per child has either decreased or stagnated globally. Additionally, the combination of the financial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic plus escalating global debt is likely to be limiting the ability of countries to augment their investments in education. Moreover, the strain on public education budgets in recent years has coincided with a 4 to 8 percentage point decline in minimum reading and math proficiency among 15-year-olds compared to 2018 pre-COVID levels in middle-income countries (OECD, 2023). In low-income countries (LICs), where data on educational outcomes are scarce, simulations suggest that the incidence of learning poverty, which was already high before 2020, is likely to have risen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (World Bank et al., 2023). The current challenge in education finance is the need to mobilize more resources while at the same time increasing the adequacy, efficiency, and equity of funding in the face of tight fiscal space and competing priorities. Tackling the spending inefficiencies and inequalities that are common to many education systems will be vital to enable countries to make better use of their resources and strengthen the link between spending and education outcomes.