This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, ...

This paper is a product of the Development Policy Team, Development Economics. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to ...

This Public Expenditure Review has two broad objectives. The first is to analyze the pattern and evolution of public expenditures in Nicaragua with a view toward assessing their consistency with ...

Revitalizing agriculture is critical for rural Indonesia's economic prosperity. Historically, Indonesia's dramatic poverty ...

Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and ...

This Poverty Assessment provides a comprehensive update on poverty in the Palestinian territories, drawing on insights from ...

The Information for Development Program's (InfoDev) "From Mind to Market" approach was designed to bridge early-stage ...

How social change is sought is central to ensuring not only that change happens but that it does so in ways perceived by those most affected by it to be legitimate (especially those who “lose”). This ...

This brief focuses on the Caribbean countries of Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Suriname, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia. Other than Jamaica, which has a population of approximately 2.8 million, these countries ...

This paper provides experimental evidence of the impact of an after-school program on vulnerable public-school students in El Salvador. The program combined a behavioral intervention with ludic ...