Gender Dimensions of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: A Rapid Assessment Toolkit was commissioned under the World Bank’s Gender and Extractive Industries program as an easy-to-use toolkit for assessing and understanding men’s and women’s differentiated access to the resources and opportunities associated with artisanal and smallscale mining (AS

This paper examines the performance thus far of MGNREGS in meeting the demand for work across states. It focuses in the scheme‘s ability to reach India‘s rural poor and other identity-based groups, notably backward castes, tribes and takes a closer look at women‘s participation and how this is influenced by the
rationing of work under MGNREGS.

The March 2012 edition of the India Economic Update, apart from analyzing the macroeconomic situation in the country today, also takes a closer look at agriculture. Food inflation may have relented, but food prices continue to be much higher. Production of high-protein foods, fruits and vegetables has not kept pace with demand.

The World Bank has been regularly monitoring the progress of developing countries against absolute poverty. Drawing on data and expertise from all regions, the Bank’s researchers have just completed their latest update covering the period 1981-2008, with preliminary estimates (on a smaller sample) for 2010.

The air transport sector is enjoying an optimistic growth rate while at the same time eliciting growing concern, due to its environmental impact and its vulnerability with respect to energy security. These issues have put the sector at the forefront of the tide in achieving energy efficiency.

This primer is concerned with energy use and efficiency of network-based water supply and wastewater treatment in urban areas.

Agriculture production in different regions is facing complex challenges such as the impact of climate variability and change, land degradation, increased competition for water, increasing labor and input costs, and loss of carbon stocks in agricultural lands.

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 led to a sharp reduction of growth worldwide with an increase in millions of poor persons. The World Bank Group responded with an unprecedented expansion of support, especially to middle income countries.

Eco² Cities: Ecological Cities as Economic Cities is a sustainable urban development initiative launched by the World Bank as an integral part of its Urban and Local Government Strategy. Its objective is to help cities in developing countries achieve greater ecological and economic sustainability in synergy.

Introduced in 2005, the joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) is a standardized framework for conducting public and external debt sustainability analysis (DSA) in low-income countries (LICs).