Coastal flood risks are expected to increase due climate change. Therefore, Bangladesh has been upgrading its coastal embankment system to enhance flood safety. This initiative includes not only hard ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is committed to achieving Universal Health Care by 2030. Progress toward this goal faces ...

Ethiopia achieves a high overall rate of execution of its health budget. From 2016 to 2021 the health budget execution rate ...

By combining two complementary approaches, the gravity model and the Bartik model, this paper estimates: (i) the ...

Progress toward this goal faces challenges due to limitations in the execution and allocation of the country's health budget.

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 ...

Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women ...

Faster growth was driven by pro-investment reforms implemented in a period of high returns to investment and facilitated by public foundational infrastructure investment. Macroeconomic and structural ...

Estimating the macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation options is a topic of intense research.

The fourth edition of the Global Findex offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during the ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significant potential to help drive economic development and poverty reduction in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). AI—including traditional and generative AI ...

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