Expanding affordable and quality childcare services and strengthening parental leaves can raise labor force participation, ...

The Yemen Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the past six months. It also ...

This public finance review (PFR) for Kenya aims both to ensure that every tax shilling benefits the Kenyan taxpayer and to inform the development of a fiscal policy that fosters job creation, poverty ...

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures ...

The World Bank's new immersive story showcases how countries and communities apply creative solutions to the sustainable use of ocean resources. The story is a part of the series Game Changers for a ...

After benefiting from 288 million liters of drinking water, Bamako is expanding access to drinking water services on its left ...

The Digital Malawi Project (2017-2024) supported by $72.4 million from the International Development Association, helped ...

Cities in low- and middle-income countries still have a window of opportunity to grow in resilient and low-carbon ways, to protect their populations and build strong and sustainable economic ...

This paper examines the relationship between firm performance and growth and the business environment in the countries of the South Asia Region -- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, ...

Climate change is not gender neutral and effectively addressing climate change must consider its gender differentiated ...

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, ...

A growing literature attributes gender inequality in labor market outcomes in part to the reduction in female labor supply after childbirth, the child penalty. However, if social norms constrain ...