In Bangladesh, there has been a consistent increase in human capital investments through various social protection (SP) programs. A new World Bank public expenditure review shows four aspects of…

Cities and communities in middle- and low-income countries increasingly are making adaptation an investment priority to safeguard citizens from climate extremes. Yet adaptation must be paired with…

Air pollution has been a problem for Egyptians for decades, particularly in large cities such as Cairo. In Greater Cairo, levels of the fine particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5, that pose the…

Maldives art competition for World Bank country partnership framework

A new World Bank report, Environmental Challenges for Green Growth and Poverty Reduction: A Country Environmental Analysis for the Lao PDR analyzes the environmental challenges most closely linked…

The converging technology revolution has the potential to build and protect human capital through improved service delivery; create jobs and innovation; and empower human capital through inclusion…

COVID-19 is revealing inequities between and within countries. As it is likely to become endemic, we have to learn to do better and to invest in the evidence needed for learning.

Indonesian women struggle to find middle-class jobs partly because they lack access to the country’s labor market in the first place. Approximately only half of Indonesian working-age women…

According to a World Bank report, Pathways to Middle-Class Jobs in Indonesia, new sources of good job creation in Indonesia are increasingly found in domestic firms with direct links to global…

As our new report "The Welfare Costs of Being Off the Grid" reveals, digitally connected households have adapted far more quickly and effectively than their less connected counterparts…