As we commemorate the International Day of Education this month, the 2023 theme “to invest in people, prioritize education” – it is all the more crucial for the countries of the Middle East and…
In 2021, the World Food Programme’s Impact Evaluation Unit teamed up with WFP’s School-Based Programme division and the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department to launch the…
Going forward, how can Indonesia turn the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity to build forward better and create not just any jobs but “middle-class jobs”, defined as jobs that will allow an…
What types of jobs does institutional childcare enable women to find? Are these jobs in the formal or informal sector? Paid or unpaid? If paid, are they sufficiently well remunerated to increase…
As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, we are about a year into an unprecedented health and economic crisis that has destroyed lives and livelihoods globally and in the East Asia and…
Although rates of infection have not been as high as in other regions, the economic consequences of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa have been severe due to the…
Hard-won gains in health and education over the past decade are at risk as essential services and household incomes crumble.
Successful cable car projects in Latin America are a vital reference for proper management and implementation of this infrastructure in the region and the world
Indonesia’s education technology during COVID-19 and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating lives and livelihoods globally. Before the pandemic, the World Bank projected that 35 million people in East Asia and the Pacific would escape poverty in 2020…