From remote rural areas to bustling cities across the country, Ethiopia’s safety net programs–some of the largest in Africa–are helping more than 9 million poor and vulnerable people meet their…

Tewodros Tassew Kebede, Francesco Di Salvo, Loza Kibret Admassu |

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 |

According to the recent World Bank Gender Disparities and Poverty: A Background Paper for the Togo Poverty and Gender Assessment 2022 , in many dimensions of gender equality, Togo performs better…

Miriam Muller, Jozefien Van Damme |

School leadership plays a major role in shaping the quality of education, acting as a strategic lever to foster conducive learning conditions for students. Despite this, the characteristics of…

Nathalie Guilbert, Carolina Alban Conto, Fabricia Devignes, Juan D. Barón |

Ethiopia’s livestock and fisheries sector holds immense potential for economic growth and development. With the largest livestock population in Africa and ranking fifth in the world, the sector…

Girma Amente, Ousmane Dione |

Using water quality testing data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESS3) in 2016, our World Bank study examined the performance of a range of commonly used machine learning algorithms to…

Alemayehu A. Ambel, Ayça Dönmez, Robert Bain, Rick Johnston, Tefera Bekele Degefu |

This year’s 16 days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence (GBV) is an opportunity for us to reflect on what the World Bank has learned about preventing and responding to GBV and the…

Helene Carlsson Rex, Alys Willman, Michael Christian Mahrt |

The World Bank supports cybersecurity skills development initiatives in developing countries to help close the cybersecurity skills gap and enhance cyber resilience as a catalyst for socio-…

Ghislain de Salins, Anat Lewin |

Between October 2021 and October 2022, seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa implemented positive changes that have had a profound impact on women's participation in their economies.

Paula Tavares, Dion Benetatos |