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As Madagascar undergoes a demographic transition and expects significant growth in the share of its working-age population by 2050, focusing investments to ensure the health, education, and empowerment of adolescent girls...

Highlights on access to food: Thailand's inflation rate continued to be the lowest among ASEAN peers and ranked behind only China among emerging markets due...

Highlights: The kip continues to depreciate, falling in value by 29% against the Thai baht and 21% against the US dollar in the year to October 2023. With banks rationing access...

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...

Highlights on Food security: The Special Focus of the ‘’Fall 2023’’ ME’ analyzes the impact of the inflationary surge across the income distribution. It shows that inflation is substantially higher...

Chad faces complex and often interlinked challenges that have contributed to its economic fragility while slowing down or undermining inclusive growth. This Country Economic Memorandum...

Despite its rich endowment in natural and human resources, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has struggled to reach its full economic potential, partly due...

Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...

This is the third in a series of three technical briefs produced by the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice to share results of a multi-country data harmonization exercise concerning forcibly...

Severely impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, Djibouti’s economic activity has shown signs of recovery in 2021.This first edition of the Djibouti Economic Monitor (DEM)...