This present edition discusses the agenda of jobs, around the challenge of creating productive employment opportunities for more of Uganda's citizens.

The health sector has replaced environment at the forefront of global partnerships in terms of resource mobilization. A combination of factors has put global health issues, especially communicable diseases, on a war footing. ...

This Phase 2 report is based on case studies of 26 (of a total of 70) Bank-supported global programs that accounted for 90 percent of the Bank's Global program expenditures in 2002.

World Development Report 2009, the 31st in the series, reframes the policy debates on urbanization, territorial development, and regional integration. The report analyzes the early experience of developed countries and ...

Poor governance is a major impediment to achieving development outcomes of the forest sector. It results in losses of income, employment, government revenues, and local and global environmental services. However, at present, ...

World Bank relations with civil society continued to expand throughout the institution during 2010 -12. This evolution was experienced across the spectrum of the engagement continuum which includes information disclosure, ...

In that context, an effective social protection system is needed to protect vulnerable groups from negative economic shocks such as loss of employment, death of bread winner or bad weather. There are several groups of ...