The success of climate adaptation and mitigation often depends on support from local communities. Yet, it remains unclear what strategies are most effective to inform and activate support for climate ...

However, job creation has not kept pace, resulting in persistently high urban unemployment rates. Based on basic job search ...

Countries in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, ...

According to the June 2013 global economic prospects, the global economic environment remains fragile, although the balance of risks is now less skewed to the downside than it has been in recent ...

The Performance-Based Financing (PBF) program in Sierra Leone's Free Education Project aimed to improve primary education by ...

Health budget allocation and execution are critical to ensuring that health systems function effectively, equitably, and ...

This is the fourth edition of the Uganda Economic Update series. As with previous editions, this update first provides ...

The Agriculture Sector Review (ASR), informed by two background studies—a value chain analysis and a public expenditures review (PER) — aims to support the Government of Eswatini’s Ministry of ...

Social protection and labor programs, such as social assistance, social insurance, or labor and economic inclusion interventions, create pathways to self-reliance, financial inclusion, and financial ...

Purchasing power parities (PPPs) are used to estimate the international poverty line (IPL) in a common currency and account for relative price differences across countries when measuring global ...