The March 2021 update to PovcalNet involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changed for improved harmonization, and the CPI, national...
The Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) was created in 2012 by the World Bank to contribute to country-level governance reforms and improved service delivery. As a platform for global grant...
Farmers in India, especially smallholders, face a number of challenges that make their income streams low and unreliable. Start-up companies have entered the agriculture sector with a fee-based revenue...
Changes in food prices – triggered frequently by natural disasters, macroeconomic shocks or regional market disruptions– can lead to large household welfare effects. At over 60 and 40 percent, food budget...
The government depends on the ability of Pakistan Customs to play a significant role in mobilizing domestic revenues, which contribute to the country’s economic development. However, the predominant focus...
In Nepal, as in most developing countries, population increase and rapid urbanization have created challenges for effective and efficient solid waste management (SWM) programs. In just over a decade, Nepal’s...
Around the globe, there is an unending cycle of producing innovative policies that are relevantand responsive to today's complex problems of disaster risk reduction and mitigation. A lot ofevidence is...
This note provides guidance on the overall approach to consulting, engaging, and partnering with local communities, to bridge gaps in information and expectation between communities and investors and create...
This technical note offers guidance and identifies options for developing baselines for scaled-up crediting programs under the Paris Agreement. Establishing baselines is partly a technical, methodological...
South Africa is under threat of a downgrade to its sovereign credit rating since Standard and Poors(S&P) lowered its foreign-currency long-term credit rating from BBB to BBB- in June 2014, with Fitch following...
Risks are ever-present for Malawi’s nearly 3 million farming households. National food security is largely dependent on the performance of rain-fed agriculture, which is vulnerable to a range of production...
Since the global financial crisis, the exceptionally accommodative monetary policy stance of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has helped support activity, bolstered asset valuations, and reduced risk premia...
Megacities in developing countries suffer from serious traffic congestion, high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and heavy air pollution. These urban areas face a stark dilemma: economic expansion...
The recently released United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) social protection strategic framework and the World Bank social protection and labor strategy call for taking a systems...
This note broadly discusses how operational staff of a ministry or a development agency can work more effectively on what has become to be known as the results agenda. Focusing on the operational perspective...
In order to understand the impact of facilitating access to savings accounts and to examine the importance of these barriers for formal savings, author designed a field experiment among smallholder cash...
This note briefly discusses the recent export performance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the impact of the global crisis on trade. It proceeds to argue that regional integration in SSA can play a critical...
A number of developing countries have established petroleum revenue funds. A recent study constructed a scoreboard comparing sovereign wealth funds from around the world, most of them deriving income from...
A number of developing countries have established petroleum revenue funds. A recent study constructed a scoreboard comparing sovereign wealth funds from around the world, most of them deriving income from...
Investment commitments to infrastructure projects with private participation in Europe and Central Asia amounted to US$45.5 billion in 2007, reaching a new peak, according to just-released data from the...