Nigeria has the potential to become an economic powerhouse. Its large and growing population and its regional trade ties ...

Though the development, articulation, and systematization of indigenous knowledge in Africa are most often seen as issues of culture and local epistemology, they have at the same time critical ...

The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to the Arab Republic of Egypt from FY 2015 to FY25. The evaluation will focus on the relevance, ...

Package 1 seeks to strengthen the enabling environment for the private sector, while Package 2 acknowledges the importance of ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a form of gender discrimination and is one of the leading causes of human rights violations in ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set ambitious targets for economic and social development, earmarking eight broad targets. Uganda appears to be on track to meet four of these goals by 2015: ...

With 17,504 islands, 108,000 kilometers of coastline, and three-quarters of its territory at sea, Indonesia’s prosperity is deeply entwined with its oceans. Yet the future for Indonesia’s oceans, like ...

The Republic of Congo, a country with extensive tropical forests and low deforestation rates, needs to balance export-driven development, especially through timber production, and sustainable forest ...

The Sierra Leone Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) analyzes Sierra Leone’s socioeconomic development prospects in the context of climate change. It provides an overview of the climate and ...

This paper offers practical advice on how to improve statistical power in randomized experiments through choices and actions researchers can take at the design, implementation, and analysis stages. At ...

This report explores how fiscal policy can improve both fiscal and environmental balances. The first chapter reviews fiscal aggregates and trends, assessing the need for adjustment and recent fiscal ...