This economy profile presents the World Bank Doing Business indicators for South Sudan. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Doing Business 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business; for 2016 South Sudan ranks 187. Doing Business sheds light on how…
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The South Sudan Household Health Survey (SHHS 2) marks the second household and health study in post-conflict South Sudan. The scope of the SHHS 2 includes: – HOUSEHOLD: Household characteristics; household listing; education; water and sanitation; insecticide treated nets; salt iodization – WOMEN: Women’s background; child mortality; live birth history; desire for last birth (results not available); maternal and newborn health; contraception; unmet need; attitudes towards domestic violence; marriage/union; female genital mutilation/cutting (results not available);…
The combination of South Sudan’s historical and geographical isolation, extreme fragility to conflict, oil dependence, and extremely low socio-economic conditions represents a formidable and almost unique development challenge. The Republic of South Sudan emerged from decades of conflict in 2011 as the world’s newest independent country. In an extremely fragile country like South Sudan, reducing extreme poverty is closely linked to finding paths out of recurrent cycles of conflict and fragility. Hence, the systematic country…
This Country Data Report summarizes the data from the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project from the World Bank for South Sudan. Download
The World Bank, in coordination with the Directorate of Vocational Training, Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development (MoLPSHRD), conducted an expedient market assessment, skills gaps and youth needs assessment in selected payams in Juba and Torit Counties in 2014. Forcier Consulting were contracted to support this work. This research is expected to support effective and relevant skills training and employment with respect to a pilot scheme for the first phase skills component…
Budget expenditures have been on the rise in South Sudan since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), reaching levels that are quite in excess of those of its East African neighbors. This note examines to what extent the oil resources that finance most public expenditure are productively used to address the huge development challenges of South Sudan. The note looks at the three key dimensions in which the public budget affects development outcomes: (i) the macro-dimension,…
This report analyzes and estimates the revenue potential for state and local governments in Southern Sudan by surveying two of the ten states (Central Equatoria and Lakes) and selected counties in each state. Download
This report asserts that the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) emerged after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) with an unprecedented amount of revenue, derived from oil, for a young government after a 20 year civil war. GoSS faced the challenge associated with dependence on natural resource revenue/rents along with little financial management or service delivery experience. Download
This Annex of the Review of Post-Crisis Multi -Donor Trust Funds contains the case study of the Multi-Donor Trust Funds in Sudan thus Sudan and Southern Sudan. Download full report Download the Sudan Case Study
The Sudan Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) (2005) was carried out jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations, with the full endorsement, guidance and participation of the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). Through a joint process with Sudanese counterparts, the JAM has looked at eight thematic areas (institutional development; rule of law; economic policy; productive sectors; basic social services; infrastructure; livelihoods and social protection; and information and media),…