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Supporting Women-Led Businesses: Narrative Review of Recent Causal Evidence

Narrative Review of Recent Causal Evidence, The World Bank Research Observer, Volume 41, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages ...
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Migration, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Rural China: Retrospect and Prospects

We draw comparisons with international findings as we review empirical evidence on the impacts of migration on rural migrant-sending communities. We begin by examining how institutional factors, ...
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Viet Nam Macro Monitoring

Viet Nam has embarked on a major reform push, the first since the Doi Moi wave in the mid-1980s. In addition to significant institutional consolidation and merging of provinces, several major public ...
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Tourism for Development: Lessons Learned from a Decade of World Bank Experience

Across low- and middle-income countries, tourism is increasingly seen as a powerful driver for economic growth, job creation, ...
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Delivering Hope in Fragile Times: The Story of the Sudan Family Support Program

Sudan’s experience following the 2011 secession of South Sudan offers a compelling case study in the design and delivery of social protection in fragile and conflict-affected settings. The loss of ...
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Tajikistan Country Evaluation : Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)

This evaluation assesses the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) support to Tajikistan over 2015-2024 ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Public Finance Review: Fiscal Policy and Growth - Smart Revenue, Inclusive Spending

The Public Finance Review (PFR) for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) aims to support policymakers in strengthening medium-term fiscal frameworks and aligning fiscal policy with sustainable and inclusive ...
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Understanding and Unlocking State-Level Growth Potential in Malaysia

Malaysia is approaching the status of a high-income economy in the next few years. There is a regional dimension to this inequality, with most people below the threshold concentrated in lagging states ...
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Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs

Aanchal Bagga, Marcus Holmlund, Nausheen Khan, Subha Mani, Eric Mvukiyehe, Patrick Premand, Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs, The World Bank ...
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Digital Skills for Africa : Zambia - Results from the Task-Based Digital Skills Assessment of Teachers and Students in TVET Institutions

Digital transformation is rapidly reshaping economies and labor markets worldwide, creating new opportunities while demanding a workforce equipped with relevant digital competencies. For Zambia, a ...
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World Bank Group Support to Kosovo, Fiscal Years 2012–25: Country Program Evaluation (Approach Paper)

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the performance of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) assistance to the Republic of Kosovo from fiscal years (FY) 2012 to 2025, seeking to identify lessons to ...
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Quality at Scale : Advancing Viet Nam's Early Childhood Education and Care System

Viet Nam’s investment in its youngest generation is fundamentally an investment in the country’s future human capital. Today, over 10 million Vietnamese children under age 6 (with another one million ...