On September 20, 2021, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and eleven. It was resolved that: (i) Estonia is hereby classified as a...
Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to assess the impact of economic crisis and shocks among the less well-off, and subsequently...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has made dramatic progress in lowering premature death and disability from most communicable, newborn, nutritional, and maternity causes. However, non-communicable...
The World Bank has developed a novel method for measuring countries’ connectivity in global networks and has applied it to the global air transport network. ‘Connectivity’ in this context is defined as...
In studies of decentralized governance in the developing world, electoral institutions have largely been overlooked as explanatory factors for the performance of local governments. Instead, much of the...
The paper examines changes in poverty and inequality in Madagascar between the years 2001 and 2005. During this period Madagascar's economic progress has been notable. Yet the record for poverty and living...
Projects involving community participation often give communities responsibility to identify, prioritize, plan and implement small-scale investments. While the approach generates high ownership and relevance...
The report assesses how the processes of allocation, transfer, and utilization of resources are conducted at the different levels of the system. The study provides valuable information regarding the reality...
The report assesses how the processes of allocation, transfer, and utilization of resources are conducted at the different levels of the system. The study provides valuable information regarding the reality...
The report assesses how the processes of allocation, transfer, and utilization of resources are conducted at the different levels of the system. The study provides valuable information regarding the reality...
Subnational governments are an important part of the public sector in the EU8 countries. They provide basic public services in both the social sectors (education, health, and social assistance) and in...
Seven million Peruvians - 23 percent of the country's population - lack access to modern energy services. Most of these residents are located in the Peruvian Amazon, where 95 percent of people have no...
The size of the global illicit drug industry and its direct and indirect costs are very large and worthy of serious attention from both research and policy perspectives. The adverse development effects...
In 1998, a $34 million World Bank loan for the Nutrition and Early Child Development Project (NECDP) was approved to support the National Program of Action for Children. The NECDP covered about 8,000 communities...
In 1998, a $34 million World Bank loan for the Nutrition and Early Child Development Project (NECDP) was approved to support the National Program of Action for Children. The NECDP covered about 8,000 communities...
Monitoring Africa's development progress and aid flows requires basic empirical data that can be readily used by analysts. African development indicators 1997, a World Bank publication, provide a starting...
Monitoring Africa's development progress and aid flows requires basic empirical data that can be readily used by analysts. African development indicators 1997, a World Bank publication, provide a starting...
The Czech voucher privatization scheme, which started in 1991, was one of the earliest, most comprehensive, and most rapidly implemented of all the mass privatization schemes in Eastern Europe and the...
This Precis entitled, Aga Khan rural support program (AKRSP) : looking to the future, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Evaluation Study, The Aga Khan rural support program...
This Precis entitled, Aga Khan rural support program (AKRSP) : looking to the future, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Evaluation Study, The Aga Khan rural support program...