School feeding programs are politically popular interventions. They are, nevertheless, difficult to assess in terms of effectiveness since their impact is partially on education and partially on ...

This paper explores innovations affecting finance, specifically by revisiting liquidity risk management in the light of the ...

This thematic study discusses strategies for sustainable financing of secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report provides insight into options for financing the expansion of secondary ...

Early Childhood and Preschool Education (ECPE) plays an important role in Ukraine’s human capital, social, and economic development. At the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine ...

This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, focusing on the provisions they contain, beyond phasing out tariffs. Clustering 278 preferential trade agreements based on ...

Global housing demand is rising rapidly, yet the combined pressures of future population growth, climate-driven hazard intensification, and constrained fiscal capacity have not been assessed together ...

This paper examines how invasion-related disruption reshapes the demand for digital skills. The analysis uses a novel dataset of millions of online job vacancies in Ukraine from 2021 to 2025 ...

This in-depth Policy Indicators Brief introduces the Women's Lived Experience (W-LEX) Data, a new data collection tool ...

There has been growing interest from stakeholders around the world in recent years in how to build momentum for private ...

Thu Duc, a rapidly urbanizing area of Ho Chi Minh City, is well located and heavily invested in policy ambition, yet its output and density remain far below what its position in the metropolitan ...

While the literature on the minimum wage is largely retrospective, analyzing impacts of past policy changes, this paper is uniquely forward-looking, forecasting how a proposed reform in Ukraine would ...

The Lasting Effects of Crop Diseases on Education and Earnings, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 40, Issue 2, May 2026, Pages 396–420, ...