According to the June 2013 global economic prospects, the global economic environment remains fragile, although the balance of risks is now less skewed to the downside than it has been in recent ...

However, job creation has not kept pace, resulting in persistently high urban unemployment rates. Based on basic job search ...

The Performance-Based Financing (PBF) program in Sierra Leone's Free Education Project aimed to improve primary education by ...

Countries in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, ...

Health budget allocation and execution are critical to ensuring that health systems function effectively, equitably, and ...

This background paper examines the critical issue of how to enhance digital skills among youth who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in Africa to prevent approximately 72 million ...

Migration of Bhutanese workers to Australia has sparked intense public debate and garnered media attention in recent years.

This is the fourth edition of the Uganda Economic Update series. As with previous editions, this update first provides ...

Second, Kenya's economy will need to navigate through a severe economic storm, which could well become a hurricane, especially if Europe enters into a recession. Third, the country will implement ...

As of January 2022, a total of 3,856 social protection and labor measures were planned or implemented by 223 economies. This constitutes a net increase of 523 measures, or 15.6 percent since the ...

The Energy Progress Report has become the global reference for information on progress toward the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

If such differences reflect distortions that women face in accessing good jobs, they can reduce economic activity through a misallocation of talent. This paper builds on Hsieh et al. (2019) to provide ...