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Africa is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty. While many countries were successful in reducing poverty during the years before the pandemic,…
Our annual summer reading list is back with suggestions covering where to start when thinking about rebuilding Ukraine's damaged infrastructure, building climate resilience through PPPs,…
Data from the Global Findex Database indicate that the percentage of adults with bank accounts in Ethiopia has more than doubled since 2014 to reach 46%. However, despite this growth, financial…
Last-mile delivery of government-led services is a challenge, especially in fragile and conflict settings. In Somalia’s health sector, this challenge is addressed through community-based female…
Universal, affordable, and reliable Internet connectivity is a key ingredient for inclusive recovery
About three-quarters of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean uses the Internet. The World Bank studies 24 countries in the region and provides three main findings on household digital…
In this blog, we highlight two projects that leveraged data-driven policymaking processes and simulations.
This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. This entry introduces 5 papers published from April 1 to April 15 on various topics, including…
As new data-sharing models emerge, we are seeing threats to privacy, data vulnerabilities, and capacity gaps in data usage in real time. Data collected for one purpose has the potential to…
As part of its commitment to support Ethiopia’s plan to open up the telecom sector, the World Bank is preparing a new Digital Ethiopia Foundations project and invest some $200 million in the…
The pandemic has hit Ethiopia's women entrepreneurs particularly hard. To help them weather the crisis, the World Bank is piloting a new app that will streamline and optimize small business…