Located in Southern Africa, Malawi is landlocked, sharing its borders with Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania. The country's estimated population is 21.1million (2023) with an annual growth rate of 2.6% ...

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

The need for job creation to help fight poverty and drive development has never been greater. Urgent, deliberate action to spur private sector growth can strengthen economic and social stability, ...

In every country, some groups confront barriers that prevent them from fully participating in political, economic, and social life. These groups may be excluded not only through legal systems, land, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Ineffective policies can persist, while potentially effective policies are often not adopted. The World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law explores why some policies fail to achieve ...

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 ...

China is home to some of the world’s important forest ecosystems and global biodiversity hotspots. However, the predominance of monoculture forests has left them highly susceptible to diseases and ...

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 ...