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 |

Due to climate change, rising temperatures could push 44 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 and cause more than 21 million deaths by 2050, exceeding 13 times the mortality of the COVID-19…

Jeremy Veillard, Gabriel Aguirre Martens, Mikhael Iglesias Luzardo |

Almost half of Nigerians are estimated to live below the national poverty line. However, unemployment is less than 5 percent, and even when many Nigerians are working, they remain poor. Why is…

Jonathan Lain, Utz Pape |

Moldova has made great strides in economic growth and poverty reduction since 2000. GDP per capita increased from 3 percent to 15 percent of the EU average over the 2000-2021 period, and the…

Inguna Dobraja, Jennifer Solotaroff |

In Nigeria alone, over 85 million people —more than 4 out of 10 Nigerians— are deprived of electricity. My trip to Abuja earlier this month reinforced what I already knew: the paradox of energy…

Anna Bjerde |

Across the Sahel, young women are key contributors to the socio-economic development of their communities and countries.

Eleonora Cavagnero, Rohini P. Pande, Judith F. Helzner |

In Colombia's Pacifico region, the World Bank has been supporting a diverse range of infrastructure projects, including investments to build new river docks and improve waterway navigation.…

Ellin Ivarsson, Carlos Murgui Maties |

Migration of any scale can yield benefits to the host countries by increasing the supply of labor (particularly in sectors where it is scarce), expanding the skills of the workforce, and providing…

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla |

How can a child learn in a school where the walls are crumbling, and the shelves are barren of books?

Gabriel Demombynes |