Sustainable development experts and policy makers expect carbon markets to drive climate finance and help meet climate goals. Carbon pricing and carbon markets continue to evolve and grow. New schemes...
The World Bank’s Subnational Business Ready (Subnational B-READY) project, the successor to the Subnational Doing Business reports, offers a comprehensive framework for evaluating local business environments...
Access to finance and equal economic opportunities are crucial for female entrepreneurs, fostering business growth and economic participation. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders involved in the...
Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered...
Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered...
Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care, can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered...
Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people centered...
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...
This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The underlying model is...
Accelerated progress towards and achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) has become a central goal of the Government of Pakistan’s (GoP) policy agenda in health in recent years. Both at the center...
Accelerated progress towards and achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) has become a central goal of the Government of Pakistan’s (GoP) policy agenda in health in recent years. Both at the center...
Digital technologies, such as digital payments or social media, have the potential to boost business growth; however, female entrepreneurs face barriers to digital adoption. EAPGIL partnered with the Finance...
En esta serie se analiza la intersección a menudo obviada entre el género y la tributación, y se revela cómo las políticas fiscales y su administración pueden afectar de manera diferente a hombres y mujeres...
Learning Poverty is unacceptably high. In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read and understand a short age-appropriate text by the end of primary school. This learning...
After Indonesia liberalized investment rules, foreign direct investment (FDI) increased. The government promoted linkages between foreign investors and local firms, but the impact on employment and productivity...
This Knowledge Note aims to document National Tax and Customs Authority's (DIAN’s) experience in sex-disaggregating income taxpayer data and provide examples of the use of disaggregated data for policy...
The stagnation of poverty incidence (and the rise in inequality) occurred despite moderate economic growth, which averaged 3.5 percent over the past decade. This is partly due to barriers in the labor...
According to the fourth Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS-IV) (2022-23), Nepal has continued to experience a substantial reduction in poverty over the last decade. Living standards have improved across...
The poverty rate in Uruguay - at 6.4 percent in 2022 under the $6.85 (2017 PPP) per day international line - is low compared to the region. However, poverty reduction has stalled in recent years. Despite...
The latest household income and expenditure survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Samoa was conducted in 2018. A new 2023 HIES dataset has been collected, but poverty estimates are not yet available...