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Poland has made significant progress in promoting gender equality, especially in education, where women now outperform men in many aspects of human capital development. However, these gains have not ...

This study contributes to understanding household-level exposure to flood risk in Paraguay by combining geolocated household survey data with novel flood hazard maps. The study estimates that more ...

The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in China perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national ...

As renewable hydrogen becomes central to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel manufacturing or heavy transport, ...

This paper reviews both crisis-time programs and regular social protection operations to distill lessons that could be applicable for both contexts. It examines three programs from the Democratic ...

Home to more than 1 billion people, the 39 emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) classified as being in fragile ...

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is a development issue and am extreme form of violence against women and girls that ...

This report, Enhancing Aquaculture Sustainability with Innovations in Ecofriendly Aquafeeds, brings together a set of case ...

The DRC Economic Update (DRCEU) evaluates the recent growth performance and macroeconomic policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), providing a basis for policy dialogue with the Government ...

Sri Lanka’s fiscal adjustment - nearly 8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) since 2021 - has been exceptionally large by ...

Girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa face multiple, inter-related challenges. In Zimbabwe, the odds are stacked ...