Despite facing a complex fragility crisis, Somalia has made important progress in state-building and economic recovery, ...

The wheat sector in Pakistan is undergoing significant transformation following the withdrawal of public procurement and a shift toward deregulation. This Wheat Sector Modernization Roadmap responds ...

This assessment focuses solely on government expenditures on sustainable long-term care (LTC) for the elderly, as requested by the The Government of North Macedonia (GoNM). It does not attempt to ...

Economic research on time use has traditionally focused on the total time individuals spend across different activities.

Industrial policy—the range of policy tools governments use to shape what an economy produces, rather than leaving it to ...

The Great Lakes Region (GLR), specifically Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Uganda, faces persistent challenges related to forced displacement and refugee crises. This ...

The Country Opinion Survey in Iraq assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Iraq perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and ...

According to administrative data, as many as 25 million children between the ages of 5 and 16 are out-of-school in Pakistan. However, little is known about where these children are in relation to ...

Commodity price volatility—along with energy and food security concerns—has renewed interest in supply- and demand-management schemes. This paper revisits experiences of international commodity ...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help countries facing complex climate-related challenges to address disaster risks while ...

This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of ...

There is increased global attention to these evolving risks and recognition of the importance of responding through proactive ...