Childcare services are critical to empowering women, reducing poverty, and promoting equitable development in West Africa.

There are numerous definitions of financial stability. Most of them have in common that financial stability is about the absence of system-wide episodes in which the financial system fails to function ...

Financial sector is the set of institutions, instruments, markets, as well as the legal and regulatory framework that permit transactions to be made by extending credit. Fundamentally, financial ...

1 in 10 people in the world live under $1.90 a day, and half of the extreme poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa Global extreme poverty continues to fall rapidly. In 2013, the year for which the most ...

Although access to services has been improving over time in the LAC region, it still remains largely unequal across and within countries, and far from universal. The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) ...

Tertiary education refers to all formal post-secondary education, including public and private universities, colleges, technical training institutes, and vocational schools. Tertiary education is ...

Evoke is a crash course in changing the world. An award-winning educational experience that uses project-based learning, game mechanics, graphic novel content and storytelling designed to engage young ...

With 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies reaching working age over the next decade—and only about 420 million jobs expected to be generated—the urgency of finding scalable and sustainable ...

The overall level of income inequality in a country is an important dimension of welfare, with significant implications for a country's ability to reduce poverty. Although inequality is used in a wide ...

Sustainable management of the world’s forests creates jobs and addresses poverty. The sector already employs 33 million people worldwide. Boosting smart investments in green sectors is a critical part ...

The topic of access to finance and financial inclusion has been of growing interest throughout the world, particularly in emerging and developing economies. Policymakers are increasingly concerned ...

South Asia’s growth prospects have weakened amid increasing uncertainty in the global economy. Regional growth is projected to slow to 5.8 percent in 2025—0.4 percentage points below October ...