Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Authors' bios -- Overview -- Introduction -- Urbanization trends and spatial patterns -- Urbanization and growth -- Spatial demographic trends -- Economic trends -- Urban expansion patterns -- Diagnostics of city performance -- Territorial planning -- Municipal...

This work explores the findings of the STEP (Skills toward Employment and Productivity) Skills Measurement Program that suggests that many workers are overqualified for their current jobs (based on the education those jobs require). The study also explores additional factors such as gender,...

The World Bank created this Early Child Development (ECD) Guide in response to a growing demand from Task Team Leaders (TTLs) for advice and support to facilitate the policy dialogue on the topic of ECD and to help policy makers make and implement relevant choices on how to best invest in ECD in...

Over the past decade, Egyptian women have made significant progress in improving their economic and social status. The Egyptian government's commitment to women's empowerment is strong at the highest political level. Yet continued disparities remain in the country's labor market and the business...

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful...

Vanuatu is a traditionally male dominated and largely patriarchal society. Women have extremely low representation in parliament and in other decision making bodies. Despite this, women are increasingly involved in private sector development and in the market economy. Available statistics...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has the third largest urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa (estimated at 43% in 2016) after South Africa and Nigeria. It is expected to grow at a rate of 4.1% per year, which corresponds to an additional 1 million residents moving to cities every year. If this...