Girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa face multiple, inter-related challenges. In Zimbabwe, the odds are stacked ...

Behavioral insights create scope for policy interventions that produce "miracles" from the perspective of traditional ...

This paper applies a gender lens to the distributional analysis of Peru’s fiscal system using the Commitment to Equity ...

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

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

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

This paper examines the impact of negative precipitation shocks (droughts) on labor markets. Using Labor Force Survey data across five c ...

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early-life drought exposure on the human capital and socioeconomic outcomes of women born in the Arab Republic of Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco across more ...

Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has briskly entered numerous fields of human activity, including the legal realm. Its ...

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

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