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

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This sourcebook documents and analyzes a range of government-led school meals programs to provide decision-makers and practitioners worldwide with the knowledge, evidence and good practice they need ...

While trade exacerbates climate change, it is also a central part of the solution because it has the potential to enhance mitigation and adaptation. This timely report explores the different ways in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first ...

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Human capital, the sum of a population’s health, skills, knowledge, and experience, constitutes a fundamental pillar in the sustainable development and economic growth of nations (World Bank 2018). It ...