The note first discusses the main pillars of financial securityat older ages before focusing on the status of contributory ...

Western Balkan countries are consistent participants in international learning assessments like the Program for International ...

Over the past few decades, fiscal policy has been about 30 percent more procyclical and about 40 percent more volatile in ...

This note is designed to be read alongside the companion policy note on electronic signatures, which explains the role of PKI ...

This paper estimates the monetary and full returns to micro-entrepreneurship using a cross-section of Mexican women leveraging self-reported reservation wages. A generalized Roy model of ...

This paper examines the dynamics of poverty in Bhutan between 2017 and 2022, utilizing cross-sectional data from the Bhutan ...

This paper estimates the number of firms in Africa, considering their size and formal status. It relies on a novel ...

Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and ...

This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at the 62 poorest districts in Viet Nam. The analysis of multiple data sets spanning the past 20 years uses a ...

The results account for household-specific inflation rates, which reflect systematic variation in household consumption ...

Waste management is a growing challenge in Nigeria, with major environmental, health, and economic implications for its ...

The markets and competition policy assessment toolkit (MCPAT) is a guide for understanding how policy can positively shape markets and address market failures that ultimately affect micro- and ...