While investment-led growth may offer quick wins, it is efficiency, innovation, and institutional reform that will determine ...

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

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: ...

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, ...

In his speech, World Bank Group President Ajay Banga highlights a critical juncture for global development, marked by persistent challenges and a demographic surge in emerging markets. He emphasizes ...

Structural sources of Africa’s inequality are rooted in laws, institutions, and practices that create advantages for a few but disadvantages for many. They include differences in living standards that ...

This publication explores strategies to enhance energy efficiency, driving growth and securing energy resources for sustainable development.

The main conclusion of Country Economic Memorandum is that the previous model of extensive growth has now exhausted its potential and must be renewed. Given the existing population dynamics, low ...