Domestic food price inflation remains high. Inflation higher than 5% is experienced in 57.9% of low-income countries (a decrease of 5.3 percentage points since the last update on February 1, 2024),...
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Domestic food price inflation remains high. Inflation higher than 5% is experienced in 57.9% of low-income countries (a decrease of 5.3 percentage points since the last update on February 1, 2024),...
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AT A GLANCE • Since the last update on November 30, the agricultural, cereal, and export price indices closed 2 percent, 6 percent, and 1 percent higher, respectively. • Domestic food price inflation...
COLOMBO, December 20, 2023—The World Bank released the second tranche of the US$500 million Sri Lanka Resilience, Stability and Economic Turnaround (RESET) Development Policy Operation (DPO),...
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AT A GLANCE • The agricultural and export price indices closed 3 percent and 7 percent higher than two weeks ago, respectively, while the cereal price index was unchanged. • Domestic food price...
The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and...
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Latest Update – September 18, 2023 Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Information from the latest month between May and August 2023 for which food price inflation data are...
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ZOE TROHANIS, MIRTHA ESCOBAR & CRISTINA OTANO The rain started two days ago and doesn’t seem to stop. You are a woman of an ethnic group that doesn’t speak the official government language of your...
COLOMBO, July 19, 2023 — The Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank, European Union (EU) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have recently signed financing agreements to help strengthen...
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WASHINGTON, July 25, 2023 — The Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the World Bank have launched a partnership — the Resilient Asia Program (RAP) —to accelerate transformational and...
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Latest Update – July 17, 2023 Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Information from the latest month between February 2023 and May 2023 for which food price inflation data are...
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Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Information from the latest month between January 2023 and April 2023 for which food price inflation data are available shows high...
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Abstract This document aims to guide the design, implementation, and use of studies to value the benefits and costs of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for climate resilience projects. Reliable...
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AT A GLANCE • Since the last update on April 20, 2023, the agricultural, cereal, and export price indices closed 8 percent, 9 percent, and 11 percent lower, respectively. • Domestic food price...
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Latest Update – April 24, 2023 Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Information from the latest month between December 2022 and March 2023 for which food price inflation data...
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AT A GLANCE • Since the last update on March 9, 2023, the agricultural, cereal, and export price indices closed 3 percent, 2 percent, and 2 percent lower, respectively. • Domestic food price...
Implementation of Timely and Credible Structural Reforms Vital for Sri Lanka to Reset its Course COLOMBO, April 4, 2023—Sri Lanka’s heightened fiscal, external, and financial sector imbalances and...
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The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this update do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. AT...
COLOMBO, February 28, 2023–World Bank Vice President for South Asia, Martin Raiser, today concluded his four-day visit to Sri Lanka, reaffirming the World Bank’s continued support to help the country...
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The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this update do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. AT...
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This annual report presents the progress and achievements made under the Japan-World Bank program for mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) in developing countries from the period between July...