This assessment focuses solely on government expenditures on sustainable long-term care (LTC) for the elderly, as requested by the The Government of North Macedonia (GoNM). It does not attempt to ...

Economic research on time use has traditionally focused on the total time individuals spend across different activities.

Despite facing a complex fragility crisis, Somalia has made important progress in state-building and economic recovery, ...

Commodity price volatility—along with energy and food security concerns—has renewed interest in supply- and demand-management schemes. This paper revisits experiences of international commodity ...

According to administrative data, as many as 25 million children between the ages of 5 and 16 are out-of-school in Pakistan. However, little is known about where these children are in relation to ...

This paper examines the challenges that African governments are grappling with as part of a renewed international effort to expand electricity access. It shows how the crux of the challenge is twofold ...

There is increased global attention to these evolving risks and recognition of the importance of responding through proactive ...

The World Bank’s Digital Transformation and Its Role in Expanding Women’s Economic Opportunities in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon ...

This paper evaluates the employment and sales effects of two widely used financial support instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises, interest rate subsidies and credit guarantees, using ...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help countries facing complex climate-related challenges to address disaster risks while ...

This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of ...

In many low- and middle-income countries, the missing jobs problem is typically framed as a shortfall in labor demand. Yet ...