This report provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including ...

Hazardous air pollution poses significant health and economic challenges for Nepal. Air pollution raises public health ...

The results indicate that direct cash transfers and social assistance programs are generally effective in reducing poverty ...

This paper studies the effect of a local sectoral productivity shock on subnational structural transformation. The analysis is based on regional input-output tables constructed for 2004 and 2013 and ...

Recent improvements in survey methodologies have increased measured consumption in many low- and lower-middle-income countries that now collect a more comprehensive measure of household consumption.

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures ...

This public finance review (PFR) for Kenya aims both to ensure that every tax shilling benefits the Kenyan taxpayer and to inform the development of a fiscal policy that fosters job creation, poverty ...

The Yemen Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the past six months. It also ...

Expanding affordable and quality childcare services and strengthening parental leaves can raise labor force participation, ...

This paper takes stock of the literature on infrastructure and jobs published since the early 2000s, using a conceptual framework to identify the key channels through which different types of ...

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