Timor-Leste is at a defining moment - one that brings both urgent challenges and real opportunities to build a more resilient and prosperous future. With oil production halted, the country now relies ...

The Blue Economy is a transformative approach to sustainable development that balances economic growth, job creation, and environmental conservation by harnessing ocean resources responsibly. It ...

Rethinking Taxation for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological ...

Governments are increasingly seeking opportunities to leverage digital technologies to build a greener future. This ...

Improvements on excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) are urgently needed in ...

Poland has made significant progress in promoting gender equality, especially in education, where women now outperform men in many aspects of human capital development. However, these gains have not ...

And economic growth has been synonymous with structural transformation. How do patterns of growth and structural ...

This study contributes to understanding household-level exposure to flood risk in Paraguay by combining geolocated household survey data with novel flood hazard maps. The study estimates that more ...

This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase ...

The DRC Economic Update (DRCEU) evaluates the recent growth performance and macroeconomic policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), providing a basis for policy dialogue with the Government ...

This paper reviews both crisis-time programs and regular social protection operations to distill lessons that could be applicable for both contexts. It examines three programs from the Democratic ...

The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in China ...