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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…
Three interventions to reduce irregular migration from the Gambia to Europe, and provide other alternatives to better livelihoods: an information campaign, assistance migrating to Senegal, and a…
A digital economy in The Gambia: Mirage or reality
In my country, the Gambia, youths make up more than 50 percent of the population and are therefore too significant a number to be ignored. Any post-pandemic economic and social development plan…
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…
Today, on the occasion of the World Youth Skills Day , we are pleased to announce the winners of the Blog4Dev 2021 competition.
International remittances shape lives and livelihoods in The Gambia. Fatou lives with her family of six in a small village close to Basse. Like many young men in the country, her husband Hamidou…
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of high-frequency and highly localized data to infer the economic impact of shocks and inform decision making accordingly. Researchers have explored…
The World Bank remains focused on helping to translate global commitments into tangible actions at the country level.
The archetype of the strong African woman standing as an unmoving pillar of her community is one that transcends national borders on the African continent. While in the past, this image often…