This poverty diagnostic reviews welfare outcomes in the Islamic Republic of Iran between 2011 and 2020, with a focus on poverty and shared prosperity. Iran is the only country in the Middle East and North...
Given increasing levels of displacement due to conflict and climate change, it is important to establish robust monitoring systems. This paper explores how remote sensing data, particularly geospatial...
This paper studies the effect of the 2018 drought on household consumption and poverty in Afghanistan, a semi-arid and conflict-affected country. The paper combines geolocated household data with remote-sensing...
This brief provides the results of Round 2 (R2) of the Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey (AWMS). The World Bank conducted the survey from June to August 2022 to assess changes in basic living conditions...
This brief reports on the results of a household survey conducted by the World Bank in the fall of 2021 [October to December] to assess changes in basic living conditions in Afghanistan in the early days...
Aggregated data from mobile network operators can provide snapshots of population mobility patterns in real time, generating valuable insights when other more traditional data sources are unavailable or...
This paper revisits the economic consequences of land fragmentation, taking seriously concerns regarding the exogeneity of fragmentation, its measurement and the importance of considering impacts in terms...