Dominica’s debt is sustainable, but the country remains at overall high risk of debt distress with elevated levels of public and external debt. The risk of external debt distress, however, has been lowered...
This report provides a deeper analysis that identifies exogenous vulnerabilities, such as climate change, and their impacts on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in the West Bank and Gaza. It provides an...
This report is structured into three main parts, covering both new content and confirming key conclusions of the first two summary reports. First, it summarizes CCDR findings on the impacts of climate...
Reducing the impact of climate change on poor and vulnerable households is essential for hastening poverty reduction. In thinking about policies that do this, it is useful to apply the same hazard, exposure...
The development objective of Second Phase of Support for Social Recovery Needs of Vulnerable Groups Project is to expand support for the immediate social recovery needs of vulnerable groups in Lebanon...
Microfinance is an important tool to improve livelihoods at the base of the pyramid. Access to finance has proven to reduce poverty and enable the poor build assets, increase incomes, and reduce their...
To address the challenge of identifying the poorest villages in developing countries, this study introduces a cost-effective strategy that leverages a combination of household consumption surveys, geospatial...
This Discussion Note examines IDA’s existing framework for addressing vulnerability concerns in its countries. In general, vulnerability refers to the extent to which individuals, communities, or systems...
This document is an update to the previous Poverty Assessment and presents revised monetary poverty estimates and an update of non-monetary poverty indicators. Specifically, it presents an updated analysis...
Este documento é uma atualização da Avaliação da Pobreza anterior e apresenta estimativas revisadas de pobreza monetária e uma atualização dos indicadores de pobreza não monetária. Especificamente, apresenta...
Following a spike in poverty in 2020 due to the impacts of the COVID-19 shock and military conflict, poverty measured by the national poverty line has been declining, from 27.0 percent in 2020 to 24.8...
Female labor force participation in Mashreq countries is notably low due to a range of structural constraints that are further exacerbated by gender norms. This knowledge brief highlights lessons learned...
Although the Maldives’ economy rebounded strongly from the pandemic, macro-financial vulnerabilities persist. After double-digit growth in 2022, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth is projected to...
The multidonor trust fund, Enhancing Access to Benefits while Lowering Emissions (EnABLE), is a global knowledge, operations, and technical assistance program. Its overall development goal is to enhance...
Depuis le début de la COVID-19 en 2020, l’économie togolaise a montré des signes de résilience face aux chocs, mais les efforts visant à réduire la pauvreté ont été frustrés et la marge budgétaire épuisée...
Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, Togo’s economy has shown signs of resilience in the face of shocks but efforts to reduce poverty were frustrated and fiscal space depleted. Togo was able to avoid a...
The Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program (SASPP) supports six Sahelian countries, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal to build adaptive social protection systems to help vulnerable...