Revenue collection for the first three months of 2025 reached 36.7 percent of the State budget’s annual plan compared to 31.7 ...

This report analyzes five critical public investment bottlenecks cutting across the project cycle. The selection of these ...

Tajikistan has successfully emerged from the global economic crisis. Economic activity was strong, driven by growth in ...

A reform in Burundi's coffee sector is currently under way. Even though the reform was launched by the government of Burundi in 1992, it was only in 2008 that implementation fully started. The ...

Benoit Decerf, Kike Fonton, Sharpening the Welfare-Consistency of the Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Identification Method, with Illustration on Nigerian Data, The World Bank Economic Review, ...

M Niaz Asadullah, Monica Biradavolu, Vijayendra Rao, Kenneth Simler, Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A ...

Florencia Devoto, Emanuela Galasso, Kathleen Beegle, Stefanie Brodmann, Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue 4, ...

This paper examines Paraguay’s vulnerability to the European Union’s Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products. Drawing on ...

The Special Focus section of this report, entitled: “Setting the Path Towards Accountability and Transparency in Public Financial Management” examines Libya’s Public Financial Management (PFM) system, ...

This brief presents initial findings from an ongoing phone survey of families in Punjab, Pakistan designed to assess what is happening to girls’ elementary school education during COVID-19. The ...

NBS Invest aims to increase financing for nature-based solutions and mainstream nature into development agendas across Least Developed Countries. Between 2023-2025, NBS Invest accelerated the ...

This paper develops a conceptual framework to analyze how gendered social norms mediate the effects of legal frameworks on ...