The March 2021 update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) involves changes to the data underlying the multidimensional poverty estimates based on the Global Monitoring Database (GMD). This update...
Citizens have a role to play in supporting health care quality and access as well as equality in the delivery of health services. This note is an overview of lessons from evidence about how social accountability...
Research on citizens as drivers of change and recent reports from the World Bank can inform its citizen engagement mandate. This governance note seeks to contribute to improving the World Bank's entry...
There is an increasing amount of literature discussing the integration of humanitarian assistance into social protection systems or the linkage of disaster risk responses with specific social safety net...
Zambia is a lower middle-income country that has made significant socioeconomic progress over the past decade, with economic growth averaging 5.7 percent and 2011 per capita income reaching US$1,160. Despite...
This note provides guidance on how to assist people from surrounding areas in gaining formal employment at the investment. Formal employment is a major expected benefit of agricultural investments. Yet...
Despite highly variable growth rates, agriculture remains a crucial backbone of Kenya’s economy. The sector directly accounts for more than one quarter of the gross domestic product (GDP), 70 percent of...
A new World Bank initiative, ‘Impact Evaluation (IE) - connect for impact,’ aims to radically transform and better inform the way that transport and information and communications technology (ICT) projects...
Co-residence is an important source of support for the elderly, especially in countries where pension systems do not cover most of the population. This note provides new evidence regarding elderly co-residence...
Most firms in developing countries are informal. Does it make sense for them to formalize? Hernando de Soto has famously argued that informal firms would like to be formal, only that burden some entry...
This policy note examines the current role of clearing and forwarding agents within the international trade logistics chain in the East African Community (EAC), this note discusses policies, particularly...
'Shooting up like a rocket, drifting downward like a feather in the wind,' or so goes the perception of petroleum product prices. This became the focus of public attention world over in 2008, when the...
'Shooting up like a rocket, drifting downward like a feather in the wind,' or so goes the perception of petroleum product prices. This became the focus of public attention world over in 2008, when the...
Investment commitments to infrastructure projects with private participation in the Middle East and North Africa grew by 7 percent to US$12.8 billion in 2007, the highest level since 1990, according to...
With an average rainfall of under 240 milli-meters a year, Pakistan is one of the world's most arid countries. The population and the economy are heavily dependent on an annual influx of water into the...
Urban water supply services have traditionally been provided by state-owned water utilities. In the past decades, many governments have tried to turn state-owned water utilities into effective and viable...
Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia.compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally...
The energy-environment review (EER) for the Islamic Republic of Iran illustrates how placing environmental issues in the context of key economic indicators was useful to incorporate environmental considerations...
Of the projected 1 billion growth in global population by 2015, 88 percent will take place in cities, nearly all of it in developing countries. Investments in urban water supply and sewerage coverage are...
Orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) are among the most vulnerable population groups in Africa. Without support and protection, they are exposed to the risk of abusive labor, lack of education...