Comoros is at the crossroads to redefine its future and become an upper-middle income country by 2050, butthis would require implementing an ambitious reform agenda that focuses on increasing productivity and privateinvestment. The current business-as-usual policy framework has delivered low...

This third issue of the Mobility and Development periodical unpacks an exciting transport sector narrative through seven articles. The issue explores the challenge and outlook on transport decarbonization. The narrative then highlights how digitalization can play a key role in building...

This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It draws from application of the Resilience Booster Tool to specific projects, as...

According to the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) 2022 update for the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, 26 countries are in groups A and B demonstrating significant focus on GovTech initiatives and the remaining four countries are in groups C and D. The GovTech initiatives are significantly...

An estimated 7.5 million Cameroonians-about one in three people in the country—do not have an officialproof of identity such as a birth certificate or national ID card. More than one in three children have nothad their birth registered and more than half do not have a birth certificate. An...

Kenya's north and northeastern region is a host to 11 percent of the total population scattered across 63 percent of the country's landmass. The arid and semi-arid region experiences recurrent droughts that create vulnerabilities for the nomadic pastoralist communities, pervasive insecurity,...

The Lao PDR is facing unprecedented macroeconomic challenges, which jeopardize hard-won development gains. Over the past two decades, the country attracted considerable foreign investment and fostered regional integration, which contributed to a long period of high economic growth. Many human...

Indonesia can build on its impressive track-record of poverty reduction to tackle more ambitious poverty reduction targets. Indonesia has made impressive gains in reducing poverty, with previously lagging regions catching up, and the Government's goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2024...

L'Algérie a toujours porté une attention particulièreà la gestion durable des forêts (GDF) pour favoriser lacroissance économique, l’augmentation des moyensde subsistance des populations et la protection del'environnement mondial. Dans le souci de renforcer la gestion des...

This policy brief aims to discuss North Macedonia's key constraints and needed policy responses in the field of education financing, contributing to the debate on how to improve the efficiency of education system as a key investment for our future. It draws on the findings presented in the...