This report explores how fiscal policy can improve both fiscal and environmental balances. The first chapter reviews fiscal aggregates and trends, assessing the need for adjustment and recent fiscal rules...
Ratings for the Social and Economic Inclusion Project for Kenya were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was high. Some...
Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is a data-intensive approach within the broader field of social protection, aimed at enhancing systems to build resilience among poor and vulnerable households before...
Countries in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are facing a variety of climate-related events that pose risks to their socio-economic stability, prompting a reevaluation of unemployment insurance systems...
Migration in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region is growing in importance, shaped by workers seeking opportunities abroad and governments implementing policies to meet skills needs and stimulate economic...
Countries in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are facing a variety of climate-related events that pose risks to their socio-economic stability, prompting a reevaluation of unemployment insurance systems...
The development objectives of the Emergency Response and Nafa Program Support Project for Guinea are to: develop the building blocks of a national shock-responsive social protection system and increase...
This Low-Income Countries Debt Sustainability Analysis (LIC-DSA) provides an update to the November 2024 LICDSA, adding three elements: (i) the assumed grant extension by the World Bank until June 2028...
Ratings for the Community Support Project for Myanmar were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is committed to achieving Universal Health Care by 2030. Progress toward this goal faces challenges due to limitations in the execution and allocation of the country's...
Ethiopia achieves a high overall rate of execution of its health budget. From 2016 to 2021 the health budget execution rate averaged 95 percent of the original budget allocation. The health budget execution...
Investing in people is the most important investment Papua New Guinea (PNG) can make for its future prosperity. Data suggests that PNG is underutilizing its people's potential: it has the lowest rate of...
This report proposes a comprehensive reform agenda of five connected policy packages. The first two packages aim to support private sector development and competitiveness and, as a result, promote the...
Ratings for the First and Second Foundational Economic Governance Reforms Development Policy Financing (DPF) Project for Democratic Republic of Congo were as follows: overall outcomes and achievement of...
Social protection and labor programs, such as social assistance, social insurance, or labor and economic inclusion interventions, create pathways to self-reliance, financial inclusion, and financial stability...
This report presents a comparative analysis of labor market outcomes for the Displaced Rohingya Population (DRP)1 in two distinct settlement contexts in Bangladesh: the long-established camps of Cox’s...
Ratings for the Resilient Productive Landscapes Project for Haiti were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial...