Social Protection
The World Bank Group supports universal access to social protection, and is central to its goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
Health, Nutrition and Population
The WBG’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice provides financing, state-of-the-art analysis, and policy advice to help countries expand access to quality, affordable health care. It also prioritizes protecting people from falling into poverty or becoming poorer due to illness; and promoting investments in all sectors that form the foundation of healthy societies.
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IEG LIVE Towards Young Children Thriving
For children born into poverty, early childhood interventions hold the promise of overcoming social disadvantages and breaking the cycle of poverty between generations. Watch President Kim and a panel of experts explore ways for the World Bank to more fully engage to meet the needs of young children and their families. As we work to meet the Sustain
Later Impacts of Early Childhood Interventions: A Systematic Review
While much has been written on early childhood development and the near-term benefits to children selected to participate in interventions, few studies look at the sustained impacts of these programs. This systematic review aims to contribute to the field's progress by collecting those studies that offer high-quality, causal estimates, providing analysis on interventions shown to have sustained effects across a range of outcomes, and identifying research gaps to help guide future studies.
Bright Starts, Sustained Results - What We've Learned from Following Beneficiaries of Early Childhood Interventions
We know that what happens in childhood has a profound influence on opportunities later in life, but how can we design early childhood interventions that have enough impact to observably improve later outcomes?
Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality - What does the evidence show?
Across the globe, many governments and development actors have implemented measures to reduce the number of deaths among mothers and young children.
World Bank Support to Early Childhood Development
This evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group examines the Bank's design and implementation of projects across sectors supporting ECD interventions to inform future operations and provide inputs to the new Global Practices and Cross-Cutting Solution Areas.
Delivering the Millennium Development Goals To Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality
Improved outcomes for women and children—more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes—have broad individual, family, and societal benefits.