The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has developed country profiles to assess the progress of developing PPP legal frameworks and carried out a comparative analysis of existing legal and…

Maude Vallée, Andrea Stucchi |

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), world leaders made a bold pledge in 2015 to leave no one behind on the path of development by 2030. Half-way to the target date, some 22 countries…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner, Umar Serajuddin |

Facing the biggest education crisis in a century, commitments to improve must become a reality urgently if children are to gain the future they deserve in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo |

Across the Caribbean, farmers are worried about improving their production, and food shoppers are worried about the high cost of food prices. While international food prices have decreased…

Diego Arias, Melissa Brown, Eva Hasiner |

Recognizing this duality, the World Bank is partnering with Caribbean governments to invest nearly USD 500 million in renewable energy projects to catalyze the clean energy transition by 2025.

Anh Nguyet Pham, Neha Mukhi |

Many Caribbean countries simply do not collect data to measure and monitor poverty and inequality.

Lilia Burunciuc, Marla Dukharan, Anna Luisa Paffhausen |

More than two decades under an authoritarian regime have left scars on The Gambia’s economic and social fabric, as witnessed by stagnating GDP per capita and widening gap compared to Sub-Saharan…

Wilfried A. Kouame, Ephrem Niyongabo, Feyi Boroffice, Rafael Pardo |

Data from the 2020/21 household survey showed that more than half of Gambians (53.4% or 1.1 million) were poor – an increase of 4.8 percentage points from the 2015 poverty levels. The pandemic…

Sering Touray |

Over 60% of The Gambia’s population is at most 25 years old. Youth (15 -24 years) is a pivotal age at which core life decisions are made, and investments made in human capital materialize into…

Anne Hilger, Odyssia Ng, Obaa Akua Konadu |

The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases is pressuring countries and health systems in the Caribbean at a rate of epidemic proportions.

Lilia Burunciuc, Timothy Antoine |