Revitalizing agriculture is critical for rural Indonesia's economic prosperity. Historically, Indonesia's dramatic poverty ...

This Public Expenditure Review has two broad objectives. The first is to analyze the pattern and evolution of public expenditures in Nicaragua with a view toward assessing their consistency with ...

This paper is a product of the Development Policy Team, Development Economics. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to ...

Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and ...

This Poverty Assessment provides a comprehensive update on poverty in the Palestinian territories, drawing on insights from ...

The Information for Development Program's (InfoDev) "From Mind to Market" approach was designed to bridge early-stage ...

The pace of population growth is most staggering in Africa, which will be home to one in four people by 2050. Between now and then estimates suggest: Zambia will add 700,000 people every year.

Meerim Nurdin Kyzy proudly shows off the tap in her front yard, which now provides clean, safe water for her family. With 5 children of her own and two stepchildren, aged 14 years to 6 months, Meerim ...

Agriculture is a key sector in Nigeria, employing over a third of the population, but unpredictable weather makes farming ...

Spain is contributing €19.5 million to the World Bank’s Livable Planet Fund (LPF) as part of a new package of support announced today for sustainable development and debt relief.

Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s launch, the generative artificial intelligence landscape remains in rapid flux. Using high ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has severely disrupted the Ukrainian labor market. This note examines how it has affected female ...