Half of the world’s population remains without access to essential health services, with many individuals driven into poverty each year by out-of-pocket health expenses. UNCTAD estimates that to meet health-related...
Growth is an important channel for poverty reduction. Policies to make growth more inclusive have permeated the development debate and pro-poor growth has been the subject of a wide range of papers in...
The focus note is organized into six sections. The first section provides an overview of the microfinance sector and the regulatory framework in West African Economic Monetary Union, or WAEMU and Economic...
The focus note is organized into six sections. The first section provides an overview of the microfinance sector and the regulatory framework in West African Economic Monetary Union, or WAEMU and Economic...
The focus note is organized into six sections. The first section provides an overview of the microfinance sector and the regulatory framework in West African Economic Monetary Union, or WAEMU and Economic...
The vulnerability of the agricultural sector to both climate change and variability is well established in the literature. The general consensus is that changes in temperature and precipitation will result...
Yemen is at a crossroads. Two years after popular unrest led to the ousting of the former president, there is now a coalition government, and the beginnings of a national political transition. March 2013...
The global economic crisis that broke out in 2008 has reawakened interest in fiscal policy. In the early stages of the crisis, there was a widespread turn to countercyclical fiscal stimulus. Furthermore...
On August 3, 2012, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number ninety-one. It was resolved that the 2012 regular election of Directors shall take...
The prevalence of heavy goods vehicle overloading across Sub-Saharan Africa has been a matter of concern for some time. The overloading leads to rapid deterioration of road pavements and imposes a heavy...
During the 1960s and 1970s most developing countries imposed anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies...
This paper, on the Polish fixed-income securities market, reviews the recent evolution of the Polish fixed-income market and examines selected policy challenges ahead, with a special focus on the municipal...
Recognizing that redistribution is only one of many roles for social policy, the findings of this report reinforce the recommendations commonly made in the literature on social protection in Latin America...
The note reviews Madagascar's inherited wealth of ethno-medical knowledge, being endowed with a flora of unique global importance on account of its biodiversity, endemicity, and ethno-medical uses. The...
The purpose of this study is to support the government of Mozambique and the World Bank health team in identifying key program and policy issues related to the planning, production, deployment, retention...
The purpose of this study is to support the government of Mozambique and the World Bank health team in identifying key program and policy issues related to the planning, production, deployment, retention...
Over two thirds of Nigeria's population resides in rural areas. Increasingly, poverty in the country is wearing a rural face. From 28.3 percent in 1980, poverty among the rural population grew to 51.4...
This note evaluates Uganda's trade regime in 1997 and 2001, using the methodology developed by Hinkle et al (2003) in How far did Africa's First Generation Trade Reforms Go? An Intermediate Methodology...
E-government is about changing how governments work, share information, and deliver services to external and internal clients. It harnesses information and communications technology to transform relationships...
This note provides a short summary of the concept and key phases involved in implementing a citizen report card (CRC) survey. CRCs are client feedback surveys that provide a quantitative measure of user...