This report provides an overview of the potential role that nature-based solutions (NBS) can play in ports. It aims to ...

This study builds on the analysis on fiscal space for health in Uganda that was conducted by the World Bank in 2010. The ...

The Philippines economy posted robust growth in early 2010, in part due to large one-off factors. As did many countries in ...

Emerging markets have long been viewed as high-risk destinations for investment, particularly investments in companies.

When leaders face political economy constraints, is it best to delay all decarbonization initiatives until a sectorally ...

The steep decline in the world oil price in the last quarter of 2014 slashed fuel price subsidies. Several governments ...

Economic Update offers a comprehensive evaluation of the country’s economy, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth, macro-fiscal stability, and development in the face of ...

For programs to be responsive to the specific spatial contexts, growth drivers, constraints to economic activity, and the economic potential of cities in India’s complex city system, which comprises ...

Despite significant progress in reducing poverty, the Philippines continues to face high inequality, which stayed elevated in the early 2000s as the economy grew. Although inequality has gradually ...

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is an extremely complex, multidisciplinary and skill intensive endeavor. Government-wide M&E is even more so because it requires detailed knowledge across and within ...

The report aims to help improve the productivity and resilience of the current food system, and to make agriculture part of the solution to climate change. It presents compelling evidence and new ...

This paper develops a sovereign default model with capital accumulation, long-term debt, and fiscal rules with two distortions: debt dilution and private underinvestment. Fiscal rules generate a ...