Les comparaisons de la pauverte - qu'elles cherchent a determiner si la pauverte a augmente, ou en quel endroit elle est la plus prononcee - sont generalement obscurcies par des imprecisions conceptuelles et methodologiques. La presesnte monographie est axee sur les besoins de l'economiste ou de...

Nepal's recent transition to a federal state structure provides a historic juncture to realize the role that social protection can play in achieving the constitutional goals of equity, inclusion, and prosperity. The transition to a federal structure of governance and the promulgation of a new...

The European Union (EU) Regular Economic Report (RER), is an annual publication of the World Bank Group and covers economic developments, prospects, and economic policies in the European Union. The report finds that while growth is back on track, the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...

This Public Expenditure Review is focused on the quality and sustainability of public spending. The key objective of this Public Expenditure Review (PER) is to assess the quality of public spending, by evaluating its efficiency and effectiveness, while also delving into sustainability...

The objective of this PEFA assessment is to provide the Government of Mongolia (GoM) and its development partners with an objective, up-to-date diagnostic of the national-level public financial management (PFM) performance based on the latest PEFA methodology. The 2021 PEFA assessment is...

Sierra Leone is a low-income, small West African country of approximately 7.65 million population. Over the past decade, the country has made gains on several health indicators, but it faces huge challenges. Infectious diseases remain the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, but...