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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In our increasingly interconnected world, where digital technologies are rapidly transforming multiple aspects of daily life, ...

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

The Green Budget Tagging Guidelines Conceptual Approach establishes a comprehensive framework for implementing green budget ...

This study examines the role of multinational firms and global value chain linkages in the cross-country diffusion of ...

Teach Primary (Teach) is a classroom observation tool developed by the World Bank that has been used in over 30 middle income countries across the world. It captures the quality of teaching practices ...