Over recent years millions of people who had been excluded from formal financial services have gained access to financial accounts. While this is a step forward, low use and inactivity keeps account d...

This report takes a "jobs" lens to its task. It focuses squarely on the productivity and livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable—that is, what it will take to increase their earnings. Finally, it prese...

Afghan Returnees Rapid Needs Assessment (ARRNA) May 2024

This Assessment is conducted as part of a larger platform established in 2016 through a joint World Bank and UNHCR initiative to support Afghanistan’s forcibly displaced population. The platform ai...

WB published its bi-annual Africa Pulse report, projecting continental GDP growth at 2.3-3.4% in 2021 (depending on policy choices), and 3.1% in 2022, with a generally weaker recovery among fragile co...

An Update to the Study: 2021 COMPOUNDING MISFORTUNES

Between February and July 2019, the World Bank commissioned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to undertake an ‘Assessment of Forest Resource Degradation and Interventio...

Refugee Policy Review as at 30 June 2020 for World Bank’s Mid Term Review of IDA19 Window for Host Communities and Refugees

WB and UNHCR - Estimating refugee poverty quickly using cross-survey imputation

This brief delves into a socioeconomic survey conducted in the context of some 30,000 Rohingya refugees who now live on Bhasan Char. The study highlights key population demographics, such as the distr...