Nutrition

Pakistan: Economic recovery, inclusive growth require bold reforms

Economic policies over past years and decades have had negative impacts on living standards, the private sector and the environment, driving a deep crisis that is hitting ordinary Pakistanis…

Tobias Haque|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Debt, Education, Energy, Environment, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Health, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Nutrition, Poverty, Social Protection, Urban Development, Water

India: Improving the health and nutrition of rural women and children in Bihar

The World Bank-supported JEEViKA program in rural Bihar has improved women's nutrition awareness through self-help groups, notably benefiting children's health. The transformation…

Deepika Anand, Mohammad Anas, Raj Ganguly|
Agriculture and Food, Gender, Nutrition, Social Protection

Fragility and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: two sides of the same coin

In 1990, about half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East Asia and the Pacific were living in extreme poverty (defined as living on less than what today…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner|
Competitiveness, Education, Financial Sector, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Gender, Governance, Health, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Nutrition, Poverty, Social Protection, Trade

We conducted 50,000 interviews in Sub-Saharan Africa on COVID-19 vaccination since 2020 – here’s what we learned

It has been over three years since COVID-19 started disrupting livelihoods and brought in-person survey data collection to a near complete halt. Broad immunization against COVID-19 quickly emerged…

Yannick Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg, Alberto Zezza, Giulia Altomare, Maryam Gul, Camilla Shuang Liu|
Education, Gender, Health, Jobs & Development, Nutrition, Social Protection

Building a better food system

A more stable, equitable, and sustainable food system is needed to connect the world’s 600 million farms with its 8 billion consumers, and capitalize on the ability to both feed the hungry while…

Juergen Voegele|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Environment, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Nutrition, Poverty, Trade
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