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Highlights on food security: Headline inflation has remained above the BSP 2–4 percent target, averaging 6.4 percent in the first ten months of 2023 from 5.4...

Key takeaways: The Lao fiscal system in 2018 was progressive and helped reduce inequality. The net effect of fiscal interventions moderately reduces inequality while the total...

Highlights: Since peaking at 7.8 percent in July 2022, inflation has been slowing, but it remains above the midpoint of the central bank’s 3–6 percent target range...

This year’s economic activity has been slower than previously anticipated due to emerging structural bottlenecks and continued external headwinds. This has prompted a sense of urgency to address...

We use economywide models to examine the economic recovery from COVID-19 shocks in Bangladesh and Nepal during 2020–2026. Declining labor productivity, capital underutilization, consumption shifts...

The Nigeria Development Update (NDU) is a biannual World Bank report series. The NDU assesses recent economic and social developments and prospects in Nigeria, and places these in a longer-term...

Highlights: Part A of the report presents recent economic developments and outlook, alongside with policy options to address the situation. Part B on the report analyses the impacts of macroeconomic...

COVID-19, along with surging relative hikes in food and energy prices, have affected every economy around the world. Yet the impact has not been uniform...

Most Egyptians receive food subsidies, which are the cornerstone of the country’s social protection system. The government recently attempted to reduce subsidies, with limited success, and introduced...