Climate change is not gender neutral and effectively addressing climate change must consider its gender differentiated ...

It is based on the experiences of three cities in Vietnam, Can Tho, Dong Hoi, and Hanoi, that worked with international and local experts under World Bank supervision to develop local resilience ...

To address this shortcoming, the concepts of well-being losses and socio-economic resilience—the ability to experience asset losses without a decline in well-being—have been proposed. This paper uses ...

Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and employment. Firm sales in some EAP ...

Procurement is a vital component of a country's public administration that links the financial system with economic and social outcomes. The state of government procurement greatly determines the ...

This study evaluates the impact of a program leveraging large language models for virtual tutoring in secondary education in Nigeria. Using a randomized controlled trial, the program deployed ...

People in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries have prospered over the last few decades because of the growth in productive ...

Most reports on refugees deal with the immediate needs of displaced people. This paper seeks to go beyond the emergency ...

From 2018 to 2022, household access to home internet in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased from 50.7 to 68.4 ...

Single-use plastics (SUPs) are a major concern in countries such as the Philippines due to SUPs’ extensive use and significant production, which has resulted from economic growth, increasing ...

This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing ...

What part of the inequality observed in a particular country is due to unequal opportunities, rather than to differences in individual efforts or luck? This paper estimates a lower bound for the ...