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Who benefits from public spending? New evidence on pro-poor investments

2025-04-07

A new post on the World Bank Data Blog presents more details on pro-poor public spending and introduces data for 133 countries, helping us to realise child rights and the SDG pledge to 'Leave No One Behind'.

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Nightlights and shocks: Understanding disaster recovery pathways using night light data

2025-04-03

In a warming world of increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters, it is essential to find approaches and methods that track disaster’s impacts and recovery efforts. Remote sensing data and satellite imagery are powerful tools to provide almost real-time data and is increasingly used to support disaster recovery.

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Children's progress on the SDGs: Racing against time

2024-09-26

With just six years remaining, the world is in a race against time to achieve the SDGs. Despite progress on some of the goals since 2015, we find that most countries are off-track to achieve key promises for children. New visualisations allow to better understand SDG progress directly in the Child Atlas - where possible, looking beyond averages to demonstrate significant – and often growing – inequalities in many countries around the world.

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