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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

This brief summarizes the main trends related to poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) using the ...