This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is the result of collaboration among UNICEF, the World Bank Group, and Lesotho's Ministries of Health and Finance. Senior economists from the Clinton Health Access ...

This report provides a high-level overview of the key findings and insights contained in the report, “Waste Management in the Middle East and North Africa”. The report draws on new data from the 19 ...

This paper analyzes extreme child poverty ($2.15/day poverty line) trends, as well as child poverty based on the higher international poverty lines of $3.65 and $6.85. The paper provides a trajectory ...

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

Heat stress is causing unnecessary deaths, illness, economic losses, and reductions in infrastructure and urban service ...

This paper examines the effect of women’s political empowerment on public spending efficiency in developing countries. Using ...

The Country Opinion Survey in Grenada assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Grenada ...

The Country Opinion Survey in Sint Maarten assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in ...

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

Acknowledging that bringing together two highly complex, broad, and even contested concepts— resilience and FCV—is an intimidating undertaking, this study approached the task at hand with a great deal ...

State capacity is an important prerequisite for policy implementation, yet at the country level it is difficult to measure, assess, and reform. This paper proposes a focus on institutional capacity: ...