Jharkhand's livestock production is in the hands of marginal and landless farmers with women accounting for over 70 percent of the production. The JOHAR project aims to enhance and diversify household...
To expand their customer base and to provide access to financial services, mobile network operators (MNOs) and financial institutions (FIs) have invested in digital channels and digital financial services...
To embark on a sustainable pathway toward development, effective policy responses must be implemented quickly and based on evidence. This requires reliable, timely data, which is often unavailable especially...
The maldistribution of skilled civil servants is an intractable policy challenge faced by many large and sparsely populated countries. Skilled teachers and health care providers tend to concentrate in...
This note provides guidance on approaches to relocation and resettlement of people. Although resettlement is ideally avoided, the complexities of unclear, unrecognized, informal, and overlapping land claims...
Workfare programs are social protection instruments used by governments to address the lack of jobs or inadequate incomes among the poor. In the Philippines, they are the largest public employment programs...
In 2008, when GPOBA was preparing the solar PV systems project for the rural poor in Ghana, the country had a relatively high electricity grid access rate for Sub-Saharan Africa, at 54 percent of the population.1...
Greenhouse Gas Data Management: Building Systems for Corporate/Facility-Level Reporting is intended to serve as a reference document for regulators, GHG reporting program and system administrators, and...
This note is based on an assessment undertaken by the World Bank following a request by the Government of Paraguay. The study evaluated agricultural risks, proposing solutions for reducing the volatility...
Learning-by-doing and adaptation happens all the time at the frontline, and as a means of survival. So how can it be reflected across the sector as a whole - from individual citizen through to international...
Do countries more exposed to macroeconomic volatility grow less than more stable nations? Are profligate governments more likely to exacerbate volatility? What about the role of the financial sector; are...
In 2010, more than 100 countries co-sponsored a landmark resolution by the United Nation (UN) General Assembly - a decade of action for road safety to stabilize and then reduce forecasted global traffic...
The Zimbabwe Water Forum provides a platform for Government and Development Partners to share international best practices in the water sector between Zimbabwe and other countries. The forum was formed...
Increasing food and nutrition insecurity and increasing poverty in the face of a rapidly changing climate and a degrading natural capital base are daunting challenges for agriculture, livestock, forests...
Compared with non-Muslims, self-identified Muslims are significantly less likely to own a formal account or save at a formal financial institution, after controlling for other individual and country characteristics...
Pakistan is prone to geological and hydro meteorological hazard events-earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones. Combined with rapid population growth, urbanization, environmental degradation, and a high...
Middle childhood (approximately 6-12 years old) is a crucial time for developing cognitive and socio emotional competencies, and economic crises can affect children's development with long-lasting consequences...
Developing effective national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and/or performance budgeting initiatives requires well-defined formulation and implementation strategies for setting up performance...
Lack of mobility of labor is likely the biggest distortion in global factor markets, resulting in large differences in the productivity and income a given worker can have in different places. As a result...
This policy note examines the role of differences in business environments in impeding cross-border trade flows between Southern African countries. It also considers the cross-border integration of credit...