As the brick sector is a prominent contributor to air pollution in Dhaka, it is important to distinguish its contribution to the city's air pollution from other sources, including transport and ...

South Asia is expected to continue to be the fastest-growing emerging market and developing economy (EMDE) region over the next two years. This is largely thanks to robust growth in India, but growth ...

Poland has experienced a powerful demographic shift, driven predominantly by increased life expectancy, a sizable baby boomer generation nearing retirement, and persistently low birth rates. Poland is ...

Efforts to conduct comprehensive assessments of agricultural policies globally involve various methodologies and ...

The Women, Business and the Law Manual and Guide (WBL M&G) outlines the production and dissemination process for WBL reports and underlying data, serving as an official source of information for WBL ...

In 2022, the nomadic population, comprising just over 10 percent of the Somali population, faced the highest levels of monetary, non-monetary, and extreme poverty, along with the greatest inequality.

Following a decade of low and unstable growth, Lesotho has a unique opportunity to build a new foundation for robust and inclusive development. As real GDP growth pivoted from a 6.3 percent expansion ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change, with rural women dis- proportionately affected due to pre-existing gender inequalities that both increase their need for adaptation and ...

This Knowledge Note presents two sets of analytical work to further our understanding of the links between public support in the agrifood sector and healthy diets. While the analytical work here is ...

Most power utilities in West Africa are not financially sustainable. Several interrelated factors cause these performance issues, but dependence on liquid fuels, poor governance, insufficient use of ...