This report provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including ...

The results indicate that direct cash transfers and social assistance programs are generally effective in reducing poverty ...

Hazardous air pollution poses significant health and economic challenges for Nepal. Air pollution raises public health ...

Recent improvements in survey methodologies have increased measured consumption in many low- and lower-middle-income ...

Expanding affordable and quality childcare services and strengthening parental leaves can raise labor force participation, ...

The Yemen Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the past six months. It also ...

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures ...

This public finance review (PFR) for Kenya aims both to ensure that every tax shilling benefits the Kenyan taxpayer and to inform the development of a fiscal policy that fosters job creation, poverty ...

Cities in low- and middle-income countries still have a window of opportunity to grow in resilient and low-carbon ways, to protect their populations and build strong and sustainable economic ...

This paper examines the relationship between firm performance and growth and the business environment in the countries of the South Asia Region -- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, ...

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

A growing literature attributes gender inequality in labor market outcomes in part to the reduction in female labor supply after childbirth, the child penalty. However, if social norms constrain ...