Pakistan’s urban areas face a looming housing crisis: forty-seven percent of households live in over-crowded housing units in informal settlements (katchi abadis) with inadequate infrastructure and services...
Pakistan’s female labor force participation (FLFP) remains low by regional and global standards. Furthermore, data show major disparities between rural and urban FLFP, with the latter being significantly...
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...
The overall objective of this study is to assess the impact of the fiscal system on poverty and inequality in The Gambia as of 2015. The study presents the first empirical evidence on the distributional...
The overall objective of this study is to assess the impact of the fiscal system on poverty and inequality in The Gambia as of 2015. The study presents the first empirical evidence on the distributional...
Aggregated data from mobile network operators can provide snapshots of population mobility patterns in real time, generating valuable insights when other more traditional data sources are unavailable or...
Real GDP growth exceeded 6 percent during the two years before COVID-19 (coronavirus) struck, supported by rebounding confidence, investment, low interest rates, and growing tourism. Investment accounted...
Real GDP growth exceeded 6 percent during the two years before COVID-19 (coronavirus) struck, supported by rebounding confidence, investment, low interest rates, and growing tourism. Investment accounted...
Recent economic growth In Mauritania has helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of both monetary welfare and access to services and opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects...
The objectives of the Implementation of the National Strategy Program for Strengthening of the National Statistical System Project is to further improve the capacity of the national statistical system...
The people of the South Caucasus aspire for their countries to become strong middle-class societies, and they are on track to make that aspiration a reality. Two decades of social and economic progress...
The development objectives of National Strategy for the Development of Statistics for 2018-2030, Including Detailed Institution, Human, and ICT Capacity Building Plans for 2018-2022 Project for Azerbaijan...