The September 2024 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. This document details these changes and the methodological...
Social protection and jobs programs (SPJ) can improve livelihoods and reduce vulnerability in coastal fishing communities in Solomon Islands, but these programs must be designed in a way that responds...
Nepal's transition to a federal system provides new optimism to achieve inclusive development and economic growth. However, the scarcity of locally disaggregated data and lack of capacity to use it stymie...
Collaborations between science and industry are becoming increasingly important for the innovation process, in part because many new inventions are directly rooted in science, such as biotechnology, information...
The Port of Cotonou is of primary importance to economic growth and diversification in Benin. Furthermore, given its key geographic location as a port serving Niger and other land-locked countries to its...
Worldwide, nearly 1.4 billion people live without access to electricity and nearly 2.7 billion people use traditional biomass fuels for cooking. One challenge to increasing reliable energy access for the...
Worldwide, nearly 1.4 billion people live without access to electricity and nearly 2.7 billion people use traditional biomass fuels for cooking. One challenge to increasing reliable energy access for the...
Dans le monde entier, près de 1,4 milliard de personnes vivent sans électricité et près de 2,7 milliards se servent de combustibles traditionnels tirés de la biomasse pour faire la cuisine. Une des difficultés...
Worldwide, nearly 1.4 billion people live without access to electricity and nearly 2.7 billion people use traditional biomass fuels for cooking. One challenge to increasing reliable energy access for the...
Private activity in transport declined for the third consecutive year in developing countries. Investments fell by 20 percent and the number of projects dropped by 19 percent in 2009 compared with 2008...
Water projects in developing countries are inaugurated with great fanfare by the governments, lenders, and sponsors that make them possible; the projects' results, however, don't always receive the publicity...
This approach resulted in the fragmentation of agricultural holdings, with families owning noncontiguous plots. Land use was inefficient, owing in part to the low rate of use of agricultural machinery...
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) recently undertook a scenario-building exercise to help anticipate and prepare for the global demographic, political, and technological forces that will...
Le Groupe consultatif d’aide aux populations les plus pauvres (CGAP) a récemment réalisé un exercice de création de scénarios pour aider à anticiper et à se préparer aux facteurs démographiques, politiques...
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) recently undertook a scenario-building exercise to help anticipate and prepare for the global demographic, political, and technological forces that will...
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) recently undertook a scenario-building exercise to help anticipate and prepare for the global demographic, political, and technological forces that will...
Dans un contexte d’urbanisation rapide et d’expansion de la pauvreté urbaine en Afrique, une grande partie de la population connaît des difficultés pour satisfaire ses besoins de mobilité et subit, au...
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This case study describes how farmers in Bonam, a village in rural Burkina Faso, predict seasonal rainfall, and, examines how their forecasts relate to scientific ones. The research shows that farmers...
Providing information to the public is an essential but insufficient step in making local government more transparent. A participatory process is also needed, both to ensure accountability and to reinforce...