It benchmarks Paraguay’s global integration; analyzes trade, investment and competition policies and the quality of related ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper reviews both crisis-time programs and regular social protection operations to distill lessons that could be ...

As renewable hydrogen becomes central to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel manufacturing or heavy transport, ...

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 ...

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

Girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa face multiple, inter-related challenges. In Zimbabwe, the odds are stacked ...

This policy note examines the role of social safety nets in addressing persistent poverty and inequality in Cameroon.

Home to more than 1 billion people, the 39 emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) classified as being in fragile ...

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 ...