This report is the first output under Activity One of the support to Greece on the Implementation of a National Skills Framework for Learning Pathways. The technical assistance is funded by the European...
Type: ReportReport#: 200584Date: October 31, 2025Author:
World Bank
Many education systems use virtual communities of practice (VCoPs), including WhatsApp groups for teachers, to provide a forum for teachers to ask and answer each other’s questions. The motivation is that...
Type: BriefReport#: 201055Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poor air quality (AQ) is a serious challenge in urban and rural areas in Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The primary sources of air pollution...
Type: BriefReport#: 201072Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Medium-term fiscal sustainability relies on accurate projections of revenue mobilization. Assessing whether a government aligns tax mobilization with economic activity is important for prudent spending...
Type: ReportReport#: 200366Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Evidence shows that interventions targeting school management in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have the potential to improve student learning. Such interventions are also highly cost-effective...
Type: BriefReport#: 201053Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Strong leaders manage their schools effectively to facilitate high quality teaching and learning. Tanzania’s school management practices are weak when compared against other countries where similar data...
Type: BriefReport#: 201054Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This brief summarizes the main trends related to labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the period 2016–24, using harmonized labor surveys from the Labor Database for Latin American...
Type: BriefReport#: 201014Date: May 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper explores why small area poverty estimates from models at the household level that only use aggregate data as covariates, exhibit systematic bias. The analysis demonstrates that this bias stems...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11110Date: May 1, 2025Author:
Paul Andres Corral Rodas
Monitoring progress on poverty and inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is complicated due to the lack of recent data. The poverty rate measured by the international poverty line of $2.15...
Type: BriefReport#: 200641Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The national poverty headcount rate fell by 10.7 percentage points from 2015 to 2023, reaching 24.8 percent in 2023, down from 35.5 percent in 2015, according to INE’s official estimates relying on a SWIFT...
Type: BriefReport#: 200645Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past twenty years, Ethiopia has made significant strides in reducing poverty; however, it has recently encountered a series of external and internal challenges that have adversely affected living...
Type: BriefReport#: 200651Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Mauritius has eradicated extreme poverty, although in 2017, 13.5 percent of Mauritians were below the upper middle-income class poverty line of $6.85 a day (2017 PPP). The World Bank’s new measure of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 200694Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Malaysia has made significant progress in economic growth and poverty reduction, but inequality remains a challenge. The country is on a path to achieve high-income status by 2028-2030. However, due to...
Type: BriefReport#: 200696Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past decade, Croatia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, with real per capita household income growing at an average annual rate of 4.7 percent, leading to a decline in the poverty...
Type: BriefReport#: 200664Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2015, fewer than one in ten Saint Lucians were poor, meaning they lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP), according to the latest available data. Given the current economic outlook, with real...
Type: BriefReport#: 200678Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
South Africa has made significant strides in reducing poverty since 1994, but progress stalled after 2011. The lack of progress in reducing poverty and inequality since 2011 can be attributed to slow economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 200761Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
At the national level, poverty incidence in Chad increased by 2.5 percentage points between the most recent survey years, rising from 42.3 percent in 2018 to 44.8 percent in 2022. The country continues...
Type: BriefReport#: 200742Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
More than a decade of conflict compounded by external economic shocks has led to a dramatic deterioration in the welfare of Syrian households. Return movements have increased since the fall of the Assad...
Type: BriefReport#: 200741Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Indonesia’s poverty rate fell in 2024, continuing its slow downward trend driven by steady GDP growth since 2021. However, trade policy disruptions, weaker commodity prices, and domestic policy uncertainties...
Type: BriefReport#: 200666Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
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