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Highlights: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...

ActionAid’s new research finds that as the world faces an unprecedented cost of living crisis, local communities in the Global South are dealing with the consequences of severe price rises...

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...

Key findings: Internal displacement broke new records in 2022 71.1 million people were living in internal displacement worldwide at the end of 2022, a...

This brief presents a compilation of key findings from an analysis of the impact of the Ukraine war on African countries. It covers the effects of global market disruptions on country terms of trade...

This Synthesis Evaluation of Emergency School Feeding in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Niger and Syria (2015-2019) is a collection of findings from individual country of the four-country Evaluation Series on Emergency...

This article presents the evolution of the biofortification program in Nigeria over the last decade and the role of interdisciplinary research in informing cost-effective, efficient, and inclusive development; implementation; and scaling of this program...

This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in our earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020). In that book, we documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...

This poverty assessment looks to microdata for a more detailed understanding of poverty reduction in Nigeria. While many macroeconomic data are released fairly regularly in Nigeria—with GDP...

Key messages In addition to health impacts, COVID-19 has hit Nigeria with a powerful economic shock, due in part to the drop in global oil prices. This double crisis...