Rice is a staple crop for over half the world’s population, and accurate, timely information on its planted area and production is crucial for food security and agricultural policy, particularly in ...

Emerging market and developing economies, like advanced economies, have experienced a remarkable decline in inflation over the past half-century. Yet, research into this development has focused almost ...

This paper applies a gender lens to the distributional analysis of Peru’s fiscal system using the Commitment to Equity ...

This paper examines the impact of negative precipitation shocks (droughts) on labor markets. Using Labor Force Survey data across five c ...

Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily ...

Botswana has made strides in promoting gender equality, with notable achievements in education, family planning, and female entrepreneurship. However, persistent challenges remain, including high ...

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early-life drought exposure on the human capital and socioeconomic outcomes of women born in the Arab Republic of Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco across more ...

This paper has two goals - to motivate policy makers in developed and emerging economies to pay more attention to illegal logging, fishing, and wildlife trade, and to provide a road map to address the ...

The success of climate adaptation and mitigation often depends on support from local communities. Yet, it remains unclear what strategies are most effective to inform and activate support for climate ...

According to the June 2013 global economic prospects, the global economic environment remains fragile, although the balance of risks is now less skewed to the downside than it has been in recent ...

However, job creation has not kept pace, resulting in persistently high urban unemployment rates. Based on basic job search ...

The Performance-Based Financing (PBF) program in Sierra Leone's Free Education Project aimed to improve primary education by ...