Nature underlies economic activity, while natural capital contributes to growth and more and better jobs. But the world’s natural capital - its renewable natural resources, ecosystems, and ...

The EnABLE Social Inclusion Framework for Results-Based Climate Finance Initiatives was devised as a key input into the Social Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan of the Enhancing Access to Benefits ...

The Mining Sector Diagnostic (MSD), conducted by the World Bank for Malawi, was commissioned by the Ministry of Mining and ...

The conflict in the Middle East—the latest of an extraordinary series of shocks in recent years—has heightened geopolitical ...

This paper synthesizes recent evidence on refugee self-reliance in low- and middle-income countries, clarifying definitions, ...

Increasing levels of pollution, particularly from poor waste management, further compound the effects of climate change by ...

This note presents the 10th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of October 2025 ...

Quotas, which expand opportunities, can effectively increase women’s descriptive representation when properly designed and ...

Technological revolutions have increased the world’s wealth to a level that was once unimaginable. They have done so unevenly, however, and in ways that have accelerated climate change. Technology ...

Extreme heat is becoming one of the most lethal and underestimated threats to cities in Europe and Central Asia, exacerbating health risks, undermining productivity, and pushing infrastructure to its ...

This report quantifies the extent to which energy efficiency measures can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fuel ...

Fast payments are transforming digital finance ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by improving the speed, affordability, and user experience of digital payments. This report provides ...