Indonesia has seen tremendous progress in poverty reduction over the past couple of decades and, as a result, has made a successful transition from low-income to middle-income country status. As ...

South Africa’s abundant renewable energy resources, strategic maritime location, and comprehensive port system position it to ...

The broad-based slowdown in growth rates has profound implications for the world’s ability to tackle the growing array of ...

Despite the reduction in transport costs over the past few decades, creating a single integrated economy remains elusive. Low ...

This study expands the inventory of green job titles by incorporating a global perspective and using contemporary sources. It ...

The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) lays out the priorities for the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) engagement to support ...

This paper provides novel evidence of the trade-offs policy makers face when designing simplified tax regimes for small ...

Yet, capital incentive policies present in every OECD country are still targeted towards investments in informational ...

Over the past quarter century, Vietnam’s agricultural sector has made enormous progress. Vietnam’s performance in terms of agricultural yields, output, and exports, however, has been more impressive ...

This gives rise to questions regarding what types of employment opportunities or interventions can draw women into work in such contexts. In this study in urban Djibouti, with restrictive gender norms ...

How reliable are public debt statistics This paper quantifies the magnitude, characteristics, and timing of hidden debt by tracking ex post data revisions across a comprehensive new database of more ...