The Lao PDR CCDR analyzes how Lao PDR can achieve sustainable development while addressing climate change. Lao PDR ...

This study explores public opinion for reducing fossil fuel subsidies in Angola, identifies strategies that can shift public ...

The World Bank launched the Human Capital Index (HCI) to highlight the importance of investments in human capital and to ...

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the performance of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) assistance to the Republic of ...

This Public Finance Review (PFR)—the first such assessment by the World Bank for South Sudan— aims to evaluate the state of the nation’s public finances and provide actionable recommendations to ...

Solomon Islands has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the strength of its workforce development (WfD) policies and ...

This paper makes an initial attempt to account for differences in the technologies used by women- and men-run businesses, that is, technological “heterogeneity,” for better understanding productivity ...

These patterns signal that the most urgent bottleneck to education access is no longer entry into the system, but keeping adolescents in school and offering meaningful second chance pathways for those ...

The forum has led to more than five distinct insolvency reforms that have helped strengthen countries' credit environments. By leveraging their joint capacities, IFC and the World Bank have helped ...

The Mauritius Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) provides analysis and recommendations on how Mauritius can achieve sustained development while responding to climate change. Mauritius is ...

The International Development Association (IDA) is the largest source of long-term concessional financing for the world’s poorest countries. Since 1960, IDA has delivered more than US$600 billion in ...

Across low- and middle-income countries, tourism is increasingly seen as a powerful driver for economic growth, job creation, ...