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 ...

The report highlights safety challenges across several areas and ways to address them. Key challenges include the limited availability and affordability of certified helmets, widespread counterfeit ...

This paper describes a new survey designed to collect comprehensive and granular information about required skills and tasks for detailed occupations in Vietnam. The Survey of Detailed Skills asks ...

Over the last decades, Mali has faced a profound and multifaceted crisis encompassing economic, social, environmental, political, and human dimensions. The situation is further influenced by the ...