At the recent Global Forum on Transboundary Water Cooperation for Climate and Development hosted by the World Bank in Washington, D.C., River Basin Organizations (RBOs) from all continents came…

Saroj Kumar Jha, H. E. Mohamed Abdel Vetah |

Agricultural technicians and farmers in Guinea, Ivory Coast and Liberia are gaining greater knowledge on the use of agricultural lime to enhance productivity and accelerate the restoration of…

Julie Mollins |

At the 2022 Biodiversity COP 15, the government of Guinea committed to protecting its natural capital by preserving nearly 30% of its natural resources by 2030. By doing so, Guinea recognized the…

Idriss Deffry, Ellysar Baroudy |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces five papers published from March 16 to March 31 on various topics, including…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |

Cash transfers have been extensively used as a tool to soften the negative impacts of the COVID19 pandemic. A recent working paper uses data from a randomized cash transfer experiment in Guinea to…

Damien de Walque, Dimitris Mavridis |

If you paid some of the highest electricity tariffs in the world, you would expect some of the most reliable electricity services. Unfortunately, this logic does not hold in West Africa, where…

Mustafa Zakir Hussain |

Today, on the occasion of the World Youth Skills Day , we are pleased to announce the winners of the Blog4Dev 2021 competition.

Hafez Ghanem, Ousmane Diagana |

From public transit quality to land use patterns, there are many factors that may impact people's ability to access essential services like healthcare or education. A new World Bank study…

Aiga Stokenberga, Karla Dominguez Gonzalez |

A growing number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with complex, multi-dimensional crises amplified by the dual threat of fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) and climate-…

Johanna Damboeck, Kaori Oshima, Corey Pattison, Nicolas Perrin |