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Edutainment to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children

Edutainment has potential to drive large-scale behavior change, yet its effectiveness in addressing violence against women and children remains an emerging field of study. This review summarizes ...
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Firm-Level Adaptation to Climate Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The effects of climate change are disproportionately concentrated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Firms have incentives to adapt to climate change, but market frictions common in ...
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Insights from Firm-Level Data on Price Regulation Around the World

This paper uses firm-level data to assess whether telecommunication services are general-purpose technologies (technologies ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...