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

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, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

As these risks intensify, national and local governments must work together to improve urban livability and resilience through risk-informed urban planning. In this handbook, livable and resilient ...

Does stronger community monitoring increase the effectiveness of local development projects? We conduct a randomized ...

This policy note highlights the important benefits that digital government can bring to a country’s government and people.

A randomized experiment tested the effectiveness of individual and small group–based consulting services on firms in the Colombian auto parts industry, finding improvements in management and firm ...

Given so, countries are exploring Asset Recycling as a mechanism to unlock capital invested in existing infrastructure assets ...

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of who benefits and who misses out on social assistance (SA) transfers in Malaysia. As the first in a two-part series on SA, the paper uses data from the ...

This study, requested by the Government of Uzbekistan, aims to support public transport reform. The objective is to develop a ...