Digital platforms aim to tackle the challenges faced by farmers in West Africa by providing them with access to real-time ...

The World Bank-supported GENIE project has helped Georgia provide training and mentorship opportunities to thousands of women ...

Ethiopia’s Digital ID (Fayda) is closing the gender gap, empowering women to access social protection payments, open bank ...

Since 2018, the Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan Survey (L2CU) has been implemented with the support of the UK Government. It measures various indicators of the well-being of respondents ...

Jobs are the most reliable pathway out of poverty. Sustained and inclusive economic growth, driven by a productive private ...

1 in 10 people in the world live under $1.90 a day, and half of the extreme poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa Global extreme poverty continues to fall rapidly. In 2013, the year for which the most ...

The Government of Tanzania’s rural electrification campaign is boosting mining profitability, creating jobs, and improving ...

This report argues that Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries face a critical choice in their quest for higher private sector growth and more jobs: promote competition, equal opportunities for ...

This chapter states the book’s objectives and main policy messages. It underlines the notion that while the challenges of expanding access, lengthening contracts, and safeguarding the financial system ...

The Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is a comprehensive overview of Nepal’s past economic performance, current challenges and prospects ahead. The latest CEM 'Climbing Higher: Toward a Middle Income ...

Ineffective policies can persist, while potentially effective policies are often not adopted. The World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law explores why some policies fail to achieve ...

This toolkit provides a robust approach for project teams to enhance resilience impact by embedding resilience attributes into the project design, and by strengthening resilience monitoring during ...