The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has made steady progress in terms of the World Bank's twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. During the 2000s, the percentage...
Although the world witnessed an unprecedented pace of poverty reduction over the last decades, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty by more than 700 million, approximately 1.2 billion...
Non-energy prices fell 2.5 percent in May, with declines in most main groups, particularly for industrial commodities. Energy prices declined 7.6 percent. During the month, however, many commodity prices...
The objective of the report is to review the literature on the links between energy access, welfare, and gender in order to provide evidence on where gender considerations in the energy sector matter and...
Agriculture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting for approximately 14 percent of total GHG emissions. However, unlike other sectors such as transport or energy, agriculture...
This country study is a background paper prepared for the comparative analysis of organization and performance of cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study carried out by the World Bank, with the objective...
Proper stewardship of revenue from the oil, gas, and mining industries has tremendous potential to lift people out of poverty and contribute to sustainable development. These industries create jobs directly...
This note is based on presentations and comments by Francois Bourguignon, Frances Stewart, Leonard Wantchekon, and Nancy Birdsall (chair) at the 2008 PREM Conference session on political economy of inequality:...
Over the past two decades, Brazil has been employing a very innovative community-driven development (CDD) approach to reducing rural poverty in its Northeast region. These efforts began with a relatively...
The main purpose of the Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA) -TRANSE study has been to identify and analyze measures that may lead to more efficient and equitable transitions in secondary education. These...
The main objective of the Madagascar Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, with a credit of US$ 17.3 million equivalent, was to improve the capacity of the government, communities and the private...
The main objective of the Madagascar Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, with a credit of US$ 17.3 million equivalent, was to improve the capacity of the government, communities and the private...
The Africa Live Database (LDB) is a user-friendly computer-based data tool that consists of: a) a Local Data Base--a tool for in-depth economic work; b) query-- a tool for storing and manipulating economic...
The Africa Live Database (LDB) is a user-friendly computer-based data tool that consists of: a) a Local Data Base--a tool for in-depth economic work; b) query-- a tool for storing and manipulating economic...
Mexico's private toll road program more than doubled the national toll road network from 1989 to 1994. The investment of approximately US$13 billion in the program was sourced from local commercial bank...
This Precis entitled, World Bank lending for large dams : a preliminary review of impacts, complements the OED publication, The World Bank's experience with large dams : an overview of impacts, dated August...
This Precis entitled, World Bank lending for large dams : a preliminary review of impacts, complements the OED publication, The World Bank's experience with large dams : an overview of impacts, dated August...
On February 26, 1982, the International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and twenty five. It was resolved that the terms and conditions of the membership...
On November 16, 1981, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and twenty seven. It was resolved that, St. Lucia shall subscribe to 19 shares...