In principle, trade policy can complement direct aid to help poorer countries develop, but does it work in practice? The authors evaluate to what extent product-level exports from developing countries ...

This World Bank report examines the urgent need to scale up climate adaptation finance in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), a region increasingly exposed to severe climate risks such as droughts, floods, ...

Kazakhstan’s economic growth is expected to moderate but remain resilient over the medium term, following a period of strong ...

The authors study how the tariff cuts fueled structural transformation leveraging spatial variation in exposure to the tariff ...

Drawing on qualitative data from 11 key informants and 75 small-scale firm owners in South Africa’s townships, this paper identifies five factors shaping micro-entrepreneurial success. First, ...

This paper studies the impact of rising heat on labor markets across Europe by combining geocoded district-level, ...

This policy note is intended to inform (i) data-driven decisions on program quotas and study relevance by the Ministry of Education and Science, (ii) the Government’s upcoming Higher Education ...

The Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) provides a global benchmark of how container ports perform in handling vessel calls. Developed jointly by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, ...

Little research attention has been paid to documenting and analyzing attempts of education systems moving quickly and at scale to provide online learning when all or many schools are closed. Related ...

This paper documents a strong empirical link between trade protection and the misallocation of capital among import-competing domestic firms. Using a decade of tax administrative data from South ...

Bangladesh is one of the leading garment exporters globally and a significant employer of women. However, women’s representation in management roles remains very low. To close this gap, as of 2016, ...