This Brief is the second in a two-part series that provides an overview of the electricity sector's demand-side and supply-side environmental regulations. Specifically, this Brief focuses on measures implemented...
Artifcial Intelligence (AI) has briskly entered numerous fields of human activity, including the legal realm. Its advancement is so swift that researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are often left...
The World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development (eMBeD) unit and Health, Nutrition, and Population team joined forces with WHO to leverage behavioral science to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and...
Electricity services are essential for private sector development, as they support production, foster new business creation, and enhance competitiveness. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys...
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a form of gender discrimination and is one of the leading causes of human rights violations in the world. GBV, which is often heightened in emergencies, is a compelling issue...
The pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) is a key metric in education planning that represents the average number of pupils per each teacher. It provides crucial information for policymaking in two ways: First, teachers...
This Brief examines regulatory indicators that promote firm entry, ease of contracting with the government, fairness, transparency, and best value for money in public procurement systems across 50 economies...
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...
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...
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...
This note presents the context and objectives of the Yokk Koom Koom program, an innovative approach aimed at promoting economic inclusion and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable populations in Senegal...
This note presents the context and objectives of the Yokk Koom Koom program, an innovative approach aimed at promoting economic inclusion and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable populations in Senegal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...