Economics & Development

The document presents World Bank Group (WBG) portfolio snapshot as of April 30, 2026: International Development Association (IDA) operations portfolio; and statement of International Finance Corporation (IFC’s) committed and disbursed portfolio.

Human capital - people’s knowledge, skills, and health - drives productivity and growth. The Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) measures the human capital a child born today can expect to accumulate over their working life, extending the original HCI by incorporating tertiary education and work experience. This brief summarizes Guatemala’s HCI+ score and its performance in building human capital.

Human capital - people’s knowledge, skills, and health - drives productivity and growth. The Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+) measures the human capital a child born today can expect to accumulate over their working life, extending the original HCI by incorporating tertiary education and work experience. This brief summarizes Bosnia and Herzegovina’s HCI+ score and its performance in building human capital.

The Country Opinion Survey in the Gambia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in the Gambia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in the Gambia on 1) their views regarding the general environment in the Gambia; 2) their overall attitudes toward the WBG in the Gambia; 3) overall impressions of the WBG’s effectiveness and results, operations, collaboration and partnerships, financial instruments, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in the Gambia; and 4) their perceptions of the WBG’s future role in the Gambia.

A pandemia de Covid-19 marcou mudanças abruptas no desenho das transferências monetárias assistenciais no Brasil, com reformas que expandiram significativamente a cobertura e os benefícios médios desses programas, culminando na recriação do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) em 2023. Este estudo analisa a qualidade da focalização, os efeitos sobre a pobreza e o custo-benefício do novo PBF e de seus predecessores no período de 2012 e 2024, considerando quatro linhas de pobreza distintas. Os resultados mostram que a focalização das transferências no período póspandemia continua tão boa quanto no período anterior à Covid-19, com destaque para a redução dos erros de exclusão, e que os efeitos sobre a pobreza se tornaram significativamente maiores. O custo-benefício do novo PBF é ligeiramente inferior ao da primeira versão do programa, o que se explica pelo pequeno aumento dos erros de inclusão e pela adoção do piso de R$ 600 por família, que enfraquece a associação entre a composição familiar e os valores transferidos.