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 |

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 |

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 |

The new PISA results provide a glance at what adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean know and can do in mathematics, reading, and science, as well as additional information about school…

Jaime Saavedra, Ferdinando Regalia |

The Argentinian National Institute of Statistics and Censuses proposed in its strategic plan to advance the development of environmental-economic statistics. With the support of the World Bank,…

Lourdes Rodríguez-Chamussy, Agustin Arakaki |

The PROGRESAR program enhances educational access and completion for disadvantaged youth and adults. With input from LGBTI civil society organizations and the World Bank, the government extended…

Mariano Ruiz, Dominik Koehler, Enrique Alasino, Santiago Scialabba |

People’s ability to afford electricity to light their homes or power their domestic appliances, pay for gas to cook or heat their homes, or buy fuel to run their businesses has been a concern for…

Defne Gencer |

Children in Lebanese public schools have experienced four consecutive disrupted academic years (2019-20 to 2022-23), receiving approximately 270 days of in-person teaching compared with the 600…

Adelle Pushparatnam, Igor Kheyfets, Hana El-Ghali, Nadine El Franji |

Argentina is one of the 25 countries worldwide with the greatest growth in financial inclusion in the last decade. According to the World Bank's Global Findex database, between 2011 and 2021…

Verónica Trujillo, Fiorella Risso Brandon |