What are the main lessons from the latest results from PISA 2018 for Latin America?

Los resultados de PISA 2018 destacan la crisis de aprendizajes que vive América Latina y sugieren que mejorar los aprendizajes con un ángulo de equidad siguen siendo los desafíos más grandes que…

Emanuela Di Gropello, Maria Jose Vargas, Monica Yanez-Pagans |
Education

What are the key areas for resilience in Central America?

Central America has great development opportunities that aim at strengthening resilience by managing its current risks

Haris Sanahuja |
Disaster Risk Management, Regional Integration

Water subsidies mostly benefit the wealthy

Vinny Ricciardi |
Poverty, Water

A GPS to help us improve learning in Central American schools

With support from the World Bank’s READ Trust Fund Program, representatives of all ministries of Education of Central America, regional and international specialists and civil society…

Rita Almeida, Seynabou Sakho |
Education

Measuring rural women’s employment in surveys: key issues for research and policy targeting

Gayatri Koolwal |
Gender, Social Protection

World Refugee Day 2019: Building a stronger international response to the challenge of forced displacement

Kristalina Georgieva |
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Social Development, Social Protection

Giving women in extreme poverty one large package of aid and support gives them the tools to build a better future

As we work on the next IDA replenishment we have a chance to integrate these lessons across our programs that are focused on countries affected by fragility and conflict.

Kristalina Georgieva |
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Gender, Poverty

In Ethiopia, digital development just took a major leap forward

Roku Fukui |
Digital Development, Governance

The Power of Dung: Biodigesters creating opportunities for farmers in Africa

A new report examines case studies of successful biodigester programs and discusses how agriculture programs can support the expansion of clean cooking technologies.

Katie Kennedy Freeman |
Agriculture and Food, Energy, Poverty

Human capital and health

Sanam Roder-DeWan, Francisca Ayodeji Akala, Jeremy Veillard, Tim Evans |
Health