The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to level the playing field by applying the same carbon price faced by domestic producers under the Emission Trading System to the emissions embodied...
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 June 2025 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several important changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. The most important change is the adoption of...
Countries frequently revise how they measure income or consumption due to changes in data collection and questionnaire design. These changes create comparability breaks in poverty trends over time. This...
This note presents the 9th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of June 2025. The...
Au Sahel, les programmes d’inclusion économique jouent un rôle crucial face aux défis combinés de la pauvreté, du changement climatique et de la fragilité. En apportant un soutien intégré aux ménages vulnérables...
In this paper we describe the Stata program cache, which allows for the full output of any Stata command to be cached to disk, enabling easy recovery of command output in the future without the need for...
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...
Judicial map reforms refer to an emerging stream of reform programs that attempts to improve the responsiveness of the justice system by adjusting the courts’ location, size, and jurisdiction to demographic...
This Brief examines the complex relationship between statutory courts and customary law systems, highlighting the historical context that fostered legal pluralism in many countries. It argues that attempts...
This Brief introduces the Justice Pillars Towards Evidence-Based Reform (JUPITER) initiative, a standardized yet flexible, country-based assessment tool that evaluates the effectiveness of justice systems...
A large share of jobs in low-income countries are found in self-employment and small firms. Standard business training programs aim to increase the incomes in these firms by teaching a set of business...
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...
تقدم هذه المذكرة الفنية معلومات تفصيلية عن نظام تصنيف المخاطر البرازيلي باستخدام نهج التصريف الإقليمي والنظام الهندي للمناطق المحجوزة من أجل الفرز الأولي لمخاطر حافظة كبيرة من السدود القائمة. ويقدم الملحق...
أعدت هذه المذكرة الفنية لتقديم إرشادات لفرق عمل البنك الدولي والبلدان المتعاملة معه فيما يتعلق بالقضايا الجيولوجية والجيوفنية والتدابير الموصى بها للحد من المخاطر وإدارتها. يجب أن يحدد فحص السدود وتصميمها...
تلعب السدود الصغيرة دورا مهما في توفير أنواع كثيرة من المنافع، مثل إمدادات مياه الشرب والري، والتحكم في الفيضانات، وتوليد الطاقة الكهرومائية الصغيرة/الصغيرة، وصيد الأسماك، وما إلى ذلك. وهي ذات أهمية خاصة...
تحتوي هذه المذكرة الفنية على مستوى من التفاصيل الفنية التي يمكن الاستعانة بها من غير المتخصصين للاسترشاد بها في معالجة الجوانب الهيدرولوجية لمشاريع السدود في مرحلة مبكرة من إعداد المشروع. والغرض منه هو...