In the past decade, Latin America and the Caribbean has achieved impressive social and economic successes. For the first time in history, more people are in the middle class than in poverty. Inequality...
The World Bank's new World Development Report 2010 on gender equity and development could not have been released at a more opportune time. For while there has been great progress in advancing the status...
This issue focuses on how International Finance Corporation (IFC) is working with the G-20 and other partners to drive job creation by one of the most important forces in emerging-market economies, SMEs...
The World Bank's new World Development Report 2010 on gender equity and development could not have been released at a more opportune time. For while there has been great progress in advancing the status...
This issue focuses on how International Finance Corporation (IFC) is working with the G-20 and other partners to drive job creation by one of the most important forces in emerging-market economies, SMEs...
Microinsurance (MI) can be an effective complement to existing menus of social protection programs. A flexible and powerful instrument, MI reduces vulnerability and mitigates the negative effects of external...
This newsletter concerns the relevance for social funds in Urban Areas. Social funds face a common challenge of sustaining the community capacities that are built and investments that are supported beyond...
This report is the product of the local governance and institutions team, which constitutes a component of Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) for the Mindanao Trust Fund - Reconstruction and Development Program...
Faced with a devastated national economy and education system after the Korean War and guided by well-planned systemic educational reform linked to national development goals, Korea achieved universal...
The study reviews tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa, in light of persistent pressures to expand access to education, despite declining quality, and mere funding possibilities. It identifies multiple...