World Bank is applying to transport initiatives a new and distinctive method of greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis as part of its comprehensive GHG accounting policy. In transport, choices by travelers...
Teenage pregnancies have potential negative consequences on the next generation. Children born to adolescent mothers are particularly at risk in terms of health, nutrition, cognitive and socio-...
"Learn about new and innovative methodologies that cities can deploy to narrow the financing gap for climate-smart investments."
Global efforts to successfully limit global warming hinge on cities....
International evidence indicates that keeping girls in school positively impacts their life trajectory and benefits the well-being of the next generation. Malawi has made progress in increasing...
The recent financial crisis has prompted a profound rethinking of many topics in financial sector development and has been a catalyst for policy debates on the appropriate role of state in financial...
"A review of MODIS and Landsat, a review of change detection, and an overview of time series analysis methods"
AppEEARS enables users to integrate point or polygon ground-based data with satellite...
Promoting relevant technical and life skills is one option to empower adolescent girls by increasing their capacity to generate income and therefore by enhancing their bargaining power within the...
Decisions during youth have great long-term impacts on human development, which is key to poverty alleviation and economic development. During adolescence, two of the primary transitions are...
"As COVID reaches the world’s most fragile countries, knowledge of how it will impact conflict dynamics is critical. This knowledge will be essential for a host of stakeholders, from policymakers to...
According to the government, 2.6 million hectares of Indonesian land burned between June and October 2015, an area four and half times the size of Bali. By October 2015, eight provinces had burned...
"Do social protection programs in Ukraine help reduce poverty and inequality?"
This brief lays out the main aspects of the CEQ approach, and its main results. The analysis finds, for instance,...
"Tanzania is one of only 10 countries in Africa—and of only a few more countries in the rest of the world—where total wealth per capita has declined."
Tanzania’s wealth per capita has declined...
The analysis of the economic growth of cities is no different from that of countries: High performing cities, which can serve as engines of growth are those that excel at mobilizing resources from...
Urban areas in East Asia are growing, spilling over city boundaries, merging with each other. Today 40% of urban areas include more than one municipality, making it difficult to plan and manage...
This knowledge notes based on Egypt’s Youth who are not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) are studied in this note, presenting the first in-depth analysis of Egypt's NEET youth, including...
The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group co-anchor, presents an analysis on the commitments and implementation of fiscal transparency actions in 43 OGP...
MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face — because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it...
At its launch early 2015, this systematic review was the most comprehensive analysis on the topic of "Social Safety Nets (SSN) and Gender". It was based on 145 impact evaluations (IEs) and 112 World...
This report focuses on cognitive skills and examines results for Slovakia from the program for international student assessment (PISA), which assesses the mathematics, reading, and science...