During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality. Given all of the current challenges facing Haiti, the World Bank Group country partnership framework aims to support the country's efforts to provide economic opportunities for...

Over the last 2 decades the distribution of private household expenditures has become more unequal in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, with the Gini coefficient rising from 0.311 to 0.364, even though absolute poverty incidence has halved. The increase in inequality was statistically...

The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. A conspicuous lacuna in the literature is a lack of...