This note presents the 9th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of June 2025. The...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 202631Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel ;
Nguyen, Minh Cong ;
Salmeron Gomez, Daylan Alberto ;
Haddad, Cameron
The World Bank’s Papua New Guinea (PNG) Economic Update offers a comprehensive evaluation of the country’s economy, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth, macro-fiscal stability,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202592Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
The quality of the built environment is fundamental to the functioning, health, and sustainability of societies and economies. Rapid population growth and urbanization are expected to increase the proportion...
Type: ReportReport#: 202099Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Sakoda, Keiko ;
Campos Garcia, Ana ;
Kawasoe, Yasuhiro ;
Mengote-Quah, Dixi
The Gabon Economic Update is an annual World Bank publication that presents an overview
of the evolving macroeconomic position in Gabon, followed by a detailed exploration of a
specific topic. The first...
Type: ReportReport#: 202509Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Kiribati’s copra subsidy is a major element of the government’s economic strategy that simultaneously accomplishes three key goals. First, it reduces poverty. Second, it incentivizes living on the outer...
Type: ReportReport#: 201889Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Rwanda evaluated a 22-week couples’ training program aimed at reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) by shifting gender norms and promoting equitable relationships...
Type: BriefReport#: 201924Date: June 1, 2025Author:
Cullen, Claire ;
Alik Lagrange, Arthur ;
Ngatia, Muthoni ;
Pierotti, Rachael ;
Vaillant, Julia
Kiribati is one of the smallest and most remote countries in the world and one of those most exposed to climate change. Over the past 50 years, there has been a steady migration of people from the outer...
Type: ReportReport#: 201886Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
This is the second edition of the annual Guinea Economic Update. This annual report presents an overview of Guinea’s evolving macroeconomic position, followed by a detailed exploration of a specific topic....
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 202641Date: June 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Access to quality health services in Guinea is limited, contributing to high morbidity and mortality rates, partly because the national health budget does not cover the sector’s needs. In 2022, only 15.8...
Children born in West African countries today are expected to reach 30 to 40 percent of their potential productivity in the future, due to poor health and education outcomes. Social safety net programs...
Type: ReportReport#: 201928Date: May 31, 2025Author:
World Bank
This Guidebook provides practical operational guidance for designing, delivering, and implementing World Bank-supported social safety nets in contexts affected by fragility, conflict and violence (FCV)....
Type: ReportReport#: 201921Date: May 31, 2025Author:
Fuselli, Silvia ;
Niebuhr, Mona Luisa ;
Saidi, Mira ;
Agostini, Sara
This paper presents the results and lessons learned from the Ghana-GPS Natural Capital Accounting Program. This Program supported the development of Land and Ecosystem Extent Accounts, Ecosystem Services...
Type: ReportReport#: 202133Date: May 31, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2015, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) brought global attention to the key role that early childhood education plays in shaping a child’s future success, emphasizing the critical...
Type: ReportReport#: 202150Date: May 31, 2025Author:
Oseni, Gbemisola ;
Sagesaka, Akiko ;
McGee, Kevin Robert ;
Costa, Valentina ;
Okujagu, Nemi ;
Bazaldua, Diego Luna ;
Cloutier, Marie-Helene ;
Chen Peraza, Juliana ;
Guedira, Fatine ;
Urzua, Tamara Arnold ;
Jordan, Tola
This Appendix evaluates the results of the World Bank
Mental Health Financing Survey in African Countries
(MHFSAC) 2024, in the eight countries surveyed that have
presented more complete information (Ghana,...
Type: ReportReport#: 202619Date: May 31, 2025Author:
World Bank
Staff assess the Kyrgyz Republic’s public debt as sustainable with moderate risks of external and overall debt distress. There is a breach of the relevant thresholds for all four external debt ratios for...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 202889Date: May 31, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report, Eco-friendly Aquafeeds: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Aquaculture Ingredients through Innovation, brings together a set of case studies and analyses designed to give World Bank task team...
Type: ReportReport#: 202147Date: May 31, 2025Author:
World Bank
Nigeria has the potential to become an economic powerhouse. Its large and growing population and its regional trade ties through the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) offer the potential...
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