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 ...

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

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

The Country Opinion Survey in Timor-Leste assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in ...

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) risks in energy operations arise across both the demand and supply sides of the ...

In the GLDN seminar, the recovery procedures in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Asian tsunami were discussed.

Private minibuses dominate transport in many developing country cities. They serve 62% of motorized trips in Lagos, the ...

The rapid expansion of social pensions in emerging economies over recent decades has been one of the defining features of ...