Photo: Masaru Goto / World Bank Raian Divanbeigi, Werner Kornexl, Maho Hatayama Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains-Tonle Sap landscape draws tourists from around the world and generates forest products such as rattan, resin, bamboo, and cardamon that can provide sustainable jobs and income for local communities. By investing in this protected area, the World Bank’s Cambodia…
Photo: Scott Wallace / World Bank Raian Divanbeigi, Yiruo Li, Jiang Ru, Suiko Yoshijima Bricks help build Bangladesh’s growing economy, employing about 1.2 million workers and providing essential livelihoods to vulnerable populations such as the illiterate, poor, and migrants. But the sector also contributes to rising air pollution due to the traditional and outdated…
Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank Authors: Mansur Ahmed, Raian Divanbeigi, and FNU Jonaed Bangladesh’s livestock sector provides vital opportunities for people in rural areas, women, youth, and vulnerable groups. The sector employs a significant number of Bangladeshis, accounting for 14.5 percent of overall employment and over one-third of agricultural employment. An even stronger…
Photo: Dominic Chavez/World Bank Patricia Bernedo, Vismay Parikh, Elena Glinskaya How can micro and small enterprises best invest in people’s skills and create jobs? And how can we measure the impact of support to these enterprises? The World Bank’s Ghana Jobs and Skills project – with assistance from the Jobs Group’s Jobs Multi-Donor Umbrella Trust…
Photo: Peter Kapuscinski / World Bank Authors: Tatiana Segal, Raian Divanbeigi, Anita Okemini, Yiruo Li Tajikistan is one of the least developed countries in Central Asia, with constraints to its development including fragility, conflict, and violence. Employment in Tajikistan is low, particularly for youth, women, and returning migrants. More than one in three young Tajiks…
Photo: Women teachers and children at the Mother Teresa Daycare Center in The Gambia. Credit: Haddija Jawara Authors: Tanima Ahmed, Anne Hilger, Jason Weaver, Alieu Bah, Alpha Camara Caroline has always had a passion for working with children and noticed that her country, The Gambia, lacks quality childcare. She believed that limited childcare could…
Photo: K M Asas / World Bank Authors: Veronica Michel Gutierrez and Mike Dawe Bangladesh and the World Bank have partnered for more than a decade on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to propel economic diversification and create more modern jobs. The most recent collaboration – the Private Investment and Digital Entrepreneurship (PRIDE) project – recognizes…
Photo Credit: Anatoliy Rakhimbayev / World Bank Authors: Patricia Bernedo, Raian Divanbeigi and Teklu Tesfaye Uzbekistan’s farms and facilities processing dairy, meat, poultry, horse, camels, fish, honey and silk create vital and distinctive products – and are key drivers of jobs for the 80% of poor households who live in rural areas and largely depend…
Photo credit: Photo: Mohamed Azakir / World Bank Authors: Patricia Bernedo, Siddharth Hari and Efşan Nas Özen As the largest refugee-hosting country in the world, Türkiye has been addressing significant humanitarian challenges. However, the magnitude of the refugee and migrant influx poses substantial development challenges which are faced not only by the displaced populations,…
Photo: Stephan Bachenheimer / World Bank Story Highlights The Agricultural Growth Project is promoting and expanding alternative source of water as part of solving the problems of farmers in areas with low rains and affected by recurrent droughts as result of climate change. The project promotes different improved of seeds, providing technical trainings and…