Gender equality is important for development - it mattersnot only for women and girls, and boys and men but also for communities and societies - for povertyreduction and economic growth. This assessment report provides an in-depth description of the gaps between women and men in Benin regarding...

The financial sector in Fiji is generally sound but has concentrated too heavily on domestic exposures producing a lack of risk diversification. This concentration is an increasing vulnerability, as foreign currency earnings become more dependent on tourism and remittances from workers overseas....

A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...

The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2009 presents evidence on the World Bank’s efforts in two areas. Part I tracks the outcomes of Bank projects and country programs and the evolution of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Part II examines the Bank’s support for environmentally...