To address this shortcoming, the concepts of well-being losses and socio-economic resilience—the ability to experience asset losses without a decline in well-being—have been proposed. This paper uses ...

Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and employment. Firm sales in some EAP ...

People in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries have prospered over the last few decades because of the growth in productive ...

This study evaluates the impact of a program leveraging large language models for virtual tutoring in secondary education in Nigeria. Using a randomized controlled trial, the program deployed ...

From 2018 to 2022, household access to home internet in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased from 50.7 to 68.4 ...

Most reports on refugees deal with the immediate needs of displaced people. This paper seeks to go beyond the emergency ...

Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and employment. Firm sales in some EAP ...

This report assesses opportunities to increase private sector participation and financing for climate adaptation and nature-based infrastructure in Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs). Climate ...

Tourism is a promising sector, with the potential for inclusive and sustainable growth and increased employment. According to ...

Sustainable investments in the forestry sector help support the country’s path to GHG emission reduction and economic growth.

This paper develops a methodology for regional disaggregated estimation and mapping of the areas that are ex-ante the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and variability and applies it ...

The tourism and hospitality sector are a key driver of Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, and a major source of foreign ...