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, ...

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 ...

This Public Finance Review proposes policies aimed at supporting Serbia’s path toward EU membership and high income status.

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School-related gender-based violence remains widespread in low- and middle-income countries, yet rigorous evidence on effective prevention strategies is limited. This study evaluates the Empowerment ...

Are firms adapting to climate change? This paper studies this question by combining geocoded World Bank Enterprise Survey data with spatially granular weather data to estimate temperature response ...

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based ...