Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe...
Putting a project into practice is challenging and at times a disconnect exists between what is aspired to in project documents and what happens on the ground. To help project managers ensure that...
The distributional effects of urban transport policies are a broadly understudied topic, particularly when in comes to developing countries. This poverty note seeks to fill in this gap in the...
A newly drafted national development plan –NDP– or poverty reduction strategy –PRS–, provides opportunities to deploy monitoring systems through online access to dynamic progress reports on...
Estimating ex-ante distributional impacts of road infrastructure is increasingly important to better understand the poverty effects of these investments. This poverty note presents such analysis...
Every year, the World Bank spends millions of dollars on development projects in its member countries. But do these investments reach the poor? This poverty note presents a spatial approach to...
Standard skills indicators leave an information gap on workforce skill characteristics, job skill requirements, and quality of worker-job matches that prevents policymakers from making informed and...
Vulnerability significantly compounds hardship in the Pacific. More than twenty percent of people in most Pacific Island Countries (PIC) are unable to meet their basic food and nonfood needs. In...