Does stronger community monitoring increase the effectiveness of local development projects? We conduct a randomized ...

The Government of Bangladesh is fully committed to global climate-change advocacy and action, having already invested heavily in adaptation measures and policies. In recent decades, the government ...

The Country Opinion Survey in Angola assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Angola perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national ...

Given so, countries are exploring Asset Recycling as a mechanism to unlock capital invested in existing infrastructure assets ...

This policy note highlights the important benefits that digital government can bring to a country’s government and people.

This study, requested by the Government of Uzbekistan, aims to support public transport reform. The objective is to develop a ...

The efficiency and quality of the business regulatory environment can vary substantially across different locations within a ...

The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side ...

Technological change is transforming labor markets globally and across Africa, reshaping the demand for skills, particularly digital competencies. To remain relevant, education and training systems ...

Myanmar is a country in transition and faces the following main challenges: a) reducing the incidence of poverty and improving human development outcomes, particularly for the poor and vulnerable; ...

The overall objective of the Zambezi River Multi-Sector Investment Opportunity Analysis (MSIOA) is to illustrate the benefits of cooperation among the riparian countries in the ZRB through a multi ...

This edition of the Law Digest for the World Bank Group's Sanctions Board presents structured summaries of the Sanctions Board's precedent as set out through more than 100 decisions issued since 2007.