There has been renewed interest and effort in recent years to adopt a multisectoral approach to address malnutrition in many countries. The government of Uganda, with technical support from the World Bank and financial support from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), has...

The World Bank Group is committed to its twin goals: to eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. The World Bank Group's Forward Look – A Vision for the World Bank Group in 2030 outlines how the World Bank Group strives to achieve these goals in close...

The purpose of this guidance note is to demonstrate how to utilize geospatial technologies to accurately and rapidly assess infrastructure within the built environment of a small island developing state. The document presents a methodology on how to collect drone (i.e., unmanned aerial system...

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund use the Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework to assess the sustainability of sovereign debt in about 75 low- and middle-income developing countries. It is overdue for a review, and this paper recommends that it be replaced for three...

Despite the efforts made to increase women's inclusion in the economy, they are still underrepresented in trade in general and in global value chains in particular. Thus, this paper aims at examining the impact of global value chains on women's trade participation as entrepreneurs and employees....

Este informe anual, que abarca el período comprendido entre el 1 de julio de 2022 y el 30 dejunio de 2023, ha sido elaborado por los directores ejecutivos del Banco Internacional deReconstrucción y Fomento (BIRF) y de la Asociación Internacional de Fomento (AIF)-denominados colectivamente...

This report looks at resilience through national health system lenses and provides lessons to strengthen health systems for future shocks. The findings are based on case studies from five countries in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), as...

This evaluation is the first stage of the Independent Evaluation Group's assessment of the World Bank's support for more, better, and more inclusive jobs through International Development Association (IDA) financing, and it assesses the implementation of IDA-supported interventions directly...

This paper studies the volatility of fiscal policy in a large sample of countries with a focus on emerging markets and developing economies and commodity exporters over 1990-2021. The findings show that fiscal policy has been more volatile in emerging markets and developing economies than in...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The pandemic has taken a drastic human toll, and its global-scale economic and social impacts affected rural development work focused on the most poor and vulnerable populations. It has...