Social Sustainability and Inclusion

Improving inclusion through social accountability: Cambodia’s experience

Addressing social inclusion and equity issues for the vulnerable is central to two of the World Bank’s overarching goals — ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.

Monyrath Nuth|
Social Sustainability and Inclusion

De-risking digital investments to support cyber resilient development

Developing countries must build cybersecurity de-risking mechanisms to identify and mitigate the cybersecurity/technology-related risks in their digital development projects.

Francesca Spidalieri, Melissa Hathaway|
Digital Development, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

Implementing scalable safety nets: lessons from Malawi’s COVID-19 urban cash transfer intervention

There is growing recognition that scalable safety nets can help households cope with weather events and other shocks by providing immediate support afterwards.

Edward Archibald, Boban Varghese Paul, Chipo Msowoya, Massimo Sichinga, Alejandra Campero|
Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

Social insurance for the informal sector: Why modeling and monitoring is critical

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, flexible voluntary savings plans that could be tapped for immediate needs and encourage participants to save for old age could also respond to the social…

Eric Gires|
Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

The Reversal Problem: Development Going Backwards

For emerging and developing economies the setback in their development markers did not start with the Covid-19 pandemic, although it deepened and accelerated a troubling trend of economic…

Eduardo Olaberria, Carmen Reinhart|
Agriculture and Food, Financial Inclusion, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion
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