As we all know, data is a fundamental necessity for evidence-based decision-making. But we have a challenge − women’s status and voice are often not reflected in official statistics. Either…

Andy Kotikula |

On a recent World Bank mission in Kampala, we held a roundtable with Ugandan women entrepreneurs and witnessed a cacophony of anger sweep the room as one brazen male banker stood up and declared “…

Sreelakshmi Papineni, Margarita Puerto, Wei Chang |

Learn how nature-based solutions are increasingly recognized as an essential tool in mitigating disasters and supporting climate resilience.

Brenden Jongman, Sally Judson |

Policies that can keep individuals employed for a longer time are especially important as societies age and governments would like to encourage older workers and workers in less good health to…

Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz, Andrea Weber |

The Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2022 shows that Cambodia made remarkable progress reducing poverty over the past decade, but that recent gains in reducing poverty were threatened by the COVID-19…

Wendy Karamba |

Following the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye, the risk of reversing human capital gains and poverty reduction looms large. Yet such a shock has the potential to accelerate Türkiye’s vision to…

Heba Elgazzar |

Studying how baseline surveys affect outcomes and experimental treatment effects helps to judge the external validity of results.

Kathleen Beegle |

Are you paying taxes on sugary drinks? Half of the world's population does and here is why it makes sense

Kate Mandeville, Libby Hattersley, Meera Shekar |

Global poverty estimates were updated today on the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). This update includes new regional poverty aggregates in 2020 and 2021 for Latin America and the Caribbean…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Tony Fujs, Christoph Lakner, Minh Cong Nguyen, Martha Viveros |

Burundi, a beautiful land of thousands of collines (hills), is losing its natural capital base at an alarming rate because of climate change. The country is sculpted with lush green hillsides…

Arame Tall, Nfamara K. Dampha |