Artifcial Intelligence (AI) has briskly entered numerous fields of human activity, including the legal realm. Its advancement is so swift that researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are often left...
The World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development (eMBeD) unit and Health, Nutrition, and Population team joined forces with WHO to leverage behavioral science to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and...
Electricity services are essential for private sector development, as they support production, foster new business creation, and enhance competitiveness. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys...
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a form of gender discrimination and is one of the leading causes of human rights violations in the world. GBV, which is often heightened in emergencies, is a compelling issue...
The pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) is a key metric in education planning that represents the average number of pupils per each teacher. It provides crucial information for policymaking in two ways: First, teachers...
This Brief examines regulatory indicators that promote firm entry, ease of contracting with the government, fairness, transparency, and best value for money in public procurement systems across 50 economies...
Evidence shows that interventions targeting school management in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have the potential to improve student learning. Such interventions are also highly cost-effective...
Many education systems use virtual communities of practice (VCoPs), including WhatsApp groups for teachers, to provide a forum for teachers to ask and answer each other’s questions. The motivation is that...
Strong leaders manage their schools effectively to facilitate high quality teaching and learning. Tanzania’s school management practices are weak when compared against other countries where similar data...
This note presents the context and objectives of the Yokk Koom Koom program, an innovative approach aimed at promoting economic inclusion and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable populations in Senegal...
This note presents the context and objectives of the Yokk Koom Koom program, an innovative approach aimed at promoting economic inclusion and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable populations in Senegal...
The economic stabilization program launched in Argentina in December 2023 has yielded positive results in addressing persistent macroeconomic instability, recurring fiscal crises, and high inflation. Despite...
In 2016, 11.1 percent of Barbadians lived below the international upper middle-income country poverty line of $6.85 (2017 PPP) per day. Looking forward, Barbados remains vulnerable to extreme weather events...
In 2017, around 21.1 percent of the population in Djibouti lived below the national poverty line. Djibouti is also among the most unequal countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, with a Gini...
Estimates based on the national poverty measurement methodology show that 33.5 percent of the Egyptian population was poor in 2021. In February 2025, the government announced the sixth social mitigation...
Sri Lanka's economic recovery continues, but household incomes, job opportunities, and non-monetary welfare remain below pre-crisis levels, resulting in elevated poverty and food insecurity. Stable, longer-term...
Over the past two decades, Morocco has made significant progress in reducing poverty under national and international poverty lines. With per capita GDP growth accelerating in 2023-24, poverty is estimated...
Poland entered the 2020s from a position of strength, following 28 years of growth that elevated household incomes and reduced poverty. The percentage of the population living on less than US$6.85 a day...
Despite making considerable progress in reducing poverty, Rwanda has relatively higher poverty rates than African peers with similar income per capita, and poverty reduction has become less responsive...
From 2017 to 2019, robust economic growth significantly reduced poverty rates: consumption-based poverty, defined as living on less than $6.85 PPP per day, decreased from 34.2 percent in 2017 to an estimated...