Despite significant progress in reducing poverty, the Philippines continues to face high inequality, which stayed elevated in the early 2000s as the economy grew. Although inequality has gradually ...

Evidence-based parenting programs are interventions aimed at improving behaviors, parental practices, skills, and knowledge to promote healthy child development, through support and education from ...

The surge in food prices following the 2021 economic rebound has become a significant concern for households, particularly low-income ones, in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania. Food price ...

Climate change is a global challenge requiring unprecedented levels of collective action. In this context, this paper asks: do appeals to historical responsibility facilitate or hinder collective ...

To achieve their national and international education goals, many countries need to invest more and better in their education systems. During the last decade, total education spending by governments, ...

In this paper we describe the Stata program cache, which allows for the full output of any Stata command to be cached to disk, enabling easy recovery of command output in the future without the need ...

This report provides an overview of the potential role that nature-based solutions (NBS) can play in ports. It aims to ...

This study builds on the analysis on fiscal space for health in Uganda that was conducted by the World Bank in 2010. The ...

Urban areas accumulate heat, developing distinct urban climates that differ from the regional climate, leading to elevated mean air temperatures within cities. In tropical climates, such as Bangkok, ...

Amazonia, the world’s largest tropical rainforest region, plays a critical role in global bio-diversity, climate regulation, and sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people, including Indigenous ...

The Philippines economy posted robust growth in early 2010, in part due to large one-off factors. As did many countries in ...