The outbreak of pandemics such as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, climate change-induced natural disasters, and associated health crises such as Dengue and Cholera outbreaks have highlighted the limited...
The authors investigate key climate change hazards affecting Nepali households and livelihoods: river flooding, heat exposure, drought, landslides, and air pollution. The authors analyze the distributional...
This report assesses and quantifies the impact of climate hazards and exposure on poverty. Considering the increasing impacts of climate change in Bangladesh, especially on poorer communities, the authors...
One of the most important challenges for the World Bank Group is ensuring that its resources reach those who are most in need. To this end, geospatial dashboards have become a widely used tool to inform...
Limited access to services and opportunities is systematically linked to poorer development outcomes. In Pakistan, 22.8 million children between the ages of 5 and 16, about forty-four percent do not attend...
Detailed spatial knowledge of service accessibility disparities is crucial to design well-targeted policies and projects to address them, both for the World Bank Group and its clients. Confronted with...