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 ...

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 ...

This paper provides a detailed descriptive analysis of patterns of urbanization across Sub-Saharan Africa for the year circa 2015. Despite the rapidity and importance of Sub-Saharan Africa’s ...

Coastal flood risks are expected to increase due climate change. Therefore, Bangladesh has been upgrading its coastal embankment system to enhance flood safety. This initiative includes not only hard ...

The fourth edition of the Global Findex offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is committed to achieving Universal Health Care by 2030. Progress toward this goal faces ...

The circular economy has become a priority in recent decades as policy makers seek to facilitate a transition from linear production systems to closed systems that reuse resources, reduce energy ...

Ethiopia achieves a high overall rate of execution of its health budget. From 2016 to 2021 the health budget execution rate ...

By combining two complementary approaches, the gravity model and the Bartik model, this paper estimates: (i) the ...

Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women ...

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other countries. This is a cause for concern because internal migration for economic ...

A number of global trends, such as concurrent rises in incomes and urbanization, are driving the increased consumption of meat, dairy, and biofuels. Meeting the demand for products will require ...