With nearly 3 million women and girls reached, SWEDD/SWEDD+ demonstrates that investment in women's education and workforce ...

According to administrative data, as many as 25 million children between the ages of 5 and 16 are out-of-school in Pakistan. However, little is known about where these children are in relation to ...

Despite facing a complex fragility crisis, Somalia has made important progress in state-building and economic recovery, ...

Commodity price volatility—along with energy and food security concerns—has renewed interest in supply- and demand-management schemes. This paper revisits experiences of international commodity ...

This paper examines the challenges that African governments are grappling with as part of a renewed international effort to expand electricity access. It shows how the crux of the challenge is twofold ...

There is increased global attention to these evolving risks and recognition of the importance of responding through proactive ...

The World Bank facilitated technical assistance to explore Mongolia’s first industrial-scale water recycling scheme, an ...

Project is expanding grid access and has installed so far 150,000 meters and 20,000 streetlights, connecting nearly 145,000 ...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help countries facing complex climate-related challenges to address disaster risks while ...

By investing to maintain and enhance its forest cover with World Bank support, Moldova can fuel job creation and new economic ...

This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of ...

North Macedonia is undergoing a rapid demographic transition characterized by population ageing and a sharp rise in long-term ...