Global growth is projected to slow significantly in 2023 as continued monetary tightening constrains the credit supply. Tanzania’s economy has performed relatively well despite a challenging external environment...
This two-part policy brief series traces the development and reform of law in India related to three critical areas that affect women’s rights and economic opportunities: women’s property rights, domestic...
Rwanda’s economy staged a strong recovery in 2021. Inflationary pressures are mounting, leading the National Bank of Rwanda to tighten monetary policy. Looking ahead, economic growth is expected to moderate...
This paper presents updated poverty and inequality estimates from the Somalia High Frequency Survey. This survey used the Rapid Consumption Method to collect consumption data quickly in an environment...
In 2020 COVID-19 (coronavirus) plunged the Western Balkan countries, like the rest of the world, into deep recession. Economic activity contracted by an estimated 3.4 percent - the worst downturn on record...
Growth contracted by 3.3 percent in 2020. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic took a heavy toll on an economy already devastated by the earthquake in 2019. However, the shock to economic fundamentals and...
To respond to the extant social, cultural, and economic diversity and inequities across project areas, the North East Rural Livelihoods Project (NERLP) adopted social inclusion and empowerment as a core...
Drawing on the results of recent state-level debt management performance assessments (SN DeMPAs) in seven Nigerian states and the Federal Capital Territory, the paper highlights key institutional and capacity...
Drawing on the results of recent state-level debt management performance assessments (SN DeMPAs) in seven Nigerian states and the Federal Capital Territory, the paper highlights key institutional and capacity...
Improving energy efficiency in Turkey is crucial for reducing expensive energy imports and meeting climate change targets. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a very important role in the Turkish...
Economic development is typically accompanied by the movement of labor from agriculture to the non-agricultural sector, a pattern commonly referred to as structural transformation. This note aims to better...
Trend growth in Uganda’s economy has not been fast enough to create enough jobs with higher earnings for one of the world’s fastest growing workforces. With almost three quarters of young people still...
In 2015, the World Bank embarked on a collaborative effort to understand and address the jobs challenge in Mindanao through the Mindanao Jobs Report (MJR). Good jobs — jobs that raise real income and lift...