Irrigation operators everywhere are under pressure to perform better. There is demand for more - and more reliable - water alongside greater resource scarcity and uncertainty. Infrastructure investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 175447Date: October 6, 2025Author:
World Bank
How important is government business to the private sector in developing economies? This paper uses administrative tax data on firm-to-firm transactions in Kenya to examine the effects of becoming a government...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11227Date: October 6, 2025Author:
Mensah, Justice Tei ;
Wankuru, Peter Chacha ;
Kirui, Benard K.
This Poverty Assessment provides a comprehensive update on poverty in the Palestinian territories, drawing on insights from the latest Palestinian Expenditure and Consumption Survey (PECS) and other data...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 204954Date: October 6, 2025Author:
World Bank
Behavior change refers to the process of altering human actions by targeting a specific audience and using insights into the context and timing of the action, either to discourage a detrimental behavior...
Type: ReportReport#: 204926Date: October 3, 2025Author:
World Bank
Social and behavior change, is crucial for biodiversity conservation as it addresses the actions and choices of people, which drive most threats to wild species. Behavior change can support long-term conservation...
Type: ReportReport#: 204924Date: October 3, 2025Author:
World Bank
The purpose of this guidance note is to assist governments, project implementers, and wildlife management practitioners to conduct social research to support wildlife conservation interventions, such as...
Type: ReportReport#: 204923Date: October 3, 2025Author:
World Bank
Afghanistan stands at a critical crossroads. As of early 2025, nearly 15 million people are facing acute food insecurity, with 3.1 million already in emergency conditions. These figures are not just numbers;...
Crafting messages is a central component of a behavior change strategy. Messages should be informed by the behaviors and audiences being targeted in line with the three steps to design a behavior change...
Type: ReportReport#: 204925Date: October 3, 2025Author:
World Bank
This glossary defines terms used in the four guidance notes of the Global Wildlife Program behavior change series. It includes concepts from behavioral science and social research offering a shared understanding...
Type: ReportReport#: 204927Date: October 3, 2025Author:
World Bank
The World Bank is supporting the Government of Lebanon to implement this project, with a first loan of US$200 million that closed on April 30, 2025 (referred to as the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project...
Type: ReportReport#: 204884Date: October 2, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper investigates how firms use green versus conventional debt and the associated firm- and aggregate-level environmental consequences. Employing a dataset of 127,711 global bond and syndicated loan...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11226Date: October 2, 2025Author:
Cortina Lorente, Juan Jose ;
Raddatz, Claudio ;
Schmukler, Sergio ;
Williams, Tomas
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: October 1, 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: October 1, 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: October 1, 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: October 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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