The Republic of Congo, a country with extensive tropical forests and low deforestation rates, needs to balance export-driven development, especially through timber production, and sustainable forest ...

Coastal flood risks are expected to increase due climate change. Therefore, Bangladesh has been upgrading its coastal embankment system to enhance flood safety. This initiative includes not only hard ...

This paper offers practical advice on how to improve statistical power in randomized experiments through choices and actions researchers can take at the design, implementation, and analysis stages. At ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is committed to achieving Universal Health Care by 2030. Progress toward this goal faces ...

Ethiopia achieves a high overall rate of execution of its health budget. From 2016 to 2021 the health budget execution rate ...

By combining two complementary approaches, the gravity model and the Bartik model, this paper estimates: (i) the ...

Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women ...

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 ...

Progress toward this goal faces challenges due to limitations in the execution and allocation of the country's health budget.

Estimating the macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation options is a topic of intense research.

Faster growth was driven by pro-investment reforms implemented in a period of high returns to investment and facilitated by public foundational infrastructure investment. Macroeconomic and structural ...

The Sierra Leone Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) analyzes Sierra Leone’s socioeconomic development prospects in the context of climate change. It provides an overview of the climate and ...