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"How can higher education and lifelong learning bridge skills needed in the labor market?"
BBL Date - September 10, 2019
The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) complicates the...
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Bite+
The World Bank has been working in partnership with Government of India and many state Governments in India for rural poverty reduction through development of rural livelihoods over last fifteen...
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Knowledge Note
Recent years have seen explosive progress in financial inclusion. Worldwide, 62 percent of adults have a financial institution or mobile money account, up from 51 percent in 2011. But 2 billion poor...
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Knowledge Note
Recent years have seen explosive progress in nancial inclusion. Worldwide, 62 percent of adults have an account at a nancial institution or through a mobile money provider, up from 51 percent in 2011...
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Knowledge Note
The first mobile financial service deployments were launched in Bangladesh in mid-2011, and by the end of 2013 they were being used by 22 percent of the adult population (intermedia 2014) - a fast...
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Knowledge Note
Every business depends on winning customer loyalty by providing value. This is also true when your customers are from the base of the social and economic pyramid (BOP). Financial service providers...
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Knowledge Note
Three private initiatives demonstrate that a developing country such as Cambodia can seize the opportunities that technology has opened in high-value-added services niches. With time, these...
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Knowledge Note
After decades of growth and experimentation, financial service providers (FSPs) have learned that to achieve financial inclusion and generate benefits for lower-income clients, one must be customer-...
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Knowledge Note
This brief discusses the need for skills-based education in Indonesian schools, in order to provide students with the skills demanded by employers.
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Podcast
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Did you know that the billions of dollars migrants send home to their countries each year far surpass the total amount of money that international aid agencies give annually? Mr. Dilip Ratha is a...
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Video
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Not all poor students can be accommodated in public high schools in Vietnam. Poor students are likely to drop out of school due to high tuition fees at private schools. A World Bank-supported project...
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Video
Discussion (9)
For World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, a technical training program at the Hunan Normal University illustrates how investment in education pays off over time. In 1992 a World Bank loan helped...
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Video
Discussion (7)
"A program offers home-based school preparation for herders' children."
In Mongolia, nomadic herders move about three or four times a year in search of good grazing lands. Because of this, their...
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Video
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"Child Development Centers help nomadic herders' kids in Mongolia."
In Mongolia, when nomadic herders' children reach school age, they go to the soum (district) center to attend school. They stay...
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Video
Discussion (7)
"Chinese Muslims discover another benefit to learning Arabic"
For the more than two million Muslims in Ningxia, it is tradition to learn Arabic and study the Koran. As China strengthened economic...
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Video
Discussion (7)
More than 43,000 households in Vietnam received access to low-interest loans and technical support to establish 76,500 hectares of forest planting under the Forest Sector Development Project...
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Knowledge Note
"Prioritizing youth employment and maximizing youth productivity in the COVID-19 recovery process will improve Asia and the Pacific’s future prospects for inclusive and sustainable growth,...
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Virtual Reality
Discussion (8)
"360° look into Lao PDR’s largest and most complex hydropower projects."
Real Learning in a Virtual World:
To get the best experience from the VR video download the WBG-OLC...
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How will technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Impact East Asia's growth?
East Asia’s economic success has depended largely on its outward-oriented, labor-intensive growth model. How...
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Knowledge Note
by Holly Krambeck, Soames Job, Sara Sultan
Low- and middle- income countries typically lack adequate systems for collecting road crash data. This limits their capacity to monitor, effectively...
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