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Rethinking Resilience: Adapting to a Changing Climate

Are firms adapting to climate change? This paper studies this question by combining geocoded World Bank Enterprise Survey data with spatially granular weather data to estimate temperature response ...
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Advancing the Jobs Agenda: Toward Self-Reliance in Refugee Situations

This paper synthesizes recent evidence on refugee self-reliance in low- and middle-income countries, clarifying definitions, ...
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Waste in the Blue Pacific: Regional Summary Report

Increasing levels of pollution, particularly from poor waste management, further compound the effects of climate change by ...
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Promoting Women’s Leadership: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Missing

Quotas, which expand opportunities, can effectively increase women’s descriptive representation when properly designed and ...
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From Awareness to Action? Experimental Evidence on Challenges in Reducing School-Related Gender-Based Violence Through a Multi-Component Program in Zambia

School-related gender-based violence remains widespread in low- and middle-income countries, yet rigorous evidence on effective prevention strategies is limited. This study evaluates the Empowerment ...
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October 2025 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure: What’s New

This note presents the 10th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of October 2025 ...
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Fast Action for Floods: RCT Evidence on Forecast-based Cash Transfers from Bangladesh and Nepal

A randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh and Nepal tested whether providing cash within days of a flood leads to greater benefits than delivering the same assistance months later—or if it simply ...
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When Does a Village Become a Town? Revisiting Pakistan’s Urbanization Using Satellite Data

This study revisits Pakistan’s level of urbanization using satellite imagery and the Degree of Urbanization methodology. While official statistics report that 39 percent of the population resides in ...
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FY 2025 Bolivia Country Opinion Survey Report

The Country Opinion Survey in Bolivia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Bolivia ...
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Liberia Economic Update, September 2025: From Stabilization to Inclusion: Pathways to Resilient Growth and Productive Jobs

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 ...
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Driving Policy Reform for Disaster Resilience: Lessons from World Bank Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO)

Since its inception in 2008, the Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) instrument has seen significant expansion across all regions, channeling ...
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Biodiversity Guidance for Road Corridor Investments: Mobilizing New Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

With road infrastructure steadily expanding—and projections indicating significant growth—it is important to ensure that road construction and upgrades do not trigger direct and indirect biodiversity ...