This World Bank report examines the urgent need to scale up climate adaptation finance in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), a ...

This diagnostic study, based on qualitative fieldwork across Kabul, Faryab, and Nangarhar, examines the behavioral, social, and contextual barriers influencing nutrition practices within households.

Nigeria stands at a critical juncture to unlock the potential of its adolescent girls. While national averages suggest ...

In principle, trade policy can complement direct aid to help poorer countries develop, but does it work in practice? The authors evaluate to what extent product-level exports from developing countries ...

Over 200 million children will be born in West and Central Africa (AFW) between 2025 and 2050, a major addition to total ...

Kazakhstan’s economic growth is expected to moderate but remain resilient over the medium term, following a period of strong ...

Since its inception in 2008, the Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) instrument has seen significant expansion across all regions, channeling ...

The LPI has provided valuable information for policy makers, traders, and other stakeholders, including researchers and academics, on the role of logistics for growth and the policies needed to ...

Bangladesh has sustained robust economic growth, led by industrial development and urbanization, for the past three decades. In tandem with its economic development, country has been increasingly ...

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This paper uses global census data to examine whether the labor market polarization and labor-displacing automation documented in the advanced countries appears in the developing world. While ...

Well-designed, high integrity carbon markets can play a pivotal role in financing climate action in developing countries. However, several critical bottlenecks impede the growth of these markets. The ...