This in-depth Policy Indicators Brief introduces the Women's Lived Experience (W-LEX) Data, a new data collection tool ...

The Lasting Effects of Crop Diseases on Education and Earnings, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 40, Issue 2, May 2026, Pages 396–420, ...

This paper describes the conceptual elements for an analytical strategy aimed to integrate these two strands of analyses, and to identify and prioritize country-specific constraints to sustained ...

Cloud has become a practical entry point through which governments acquire modern digital capability. AI services, ...

This paper develops an empirical model to predict episodes of debt servicing difficulties (“debt distress”) in low-income countries, with three main contributions to the existing literature. First, it ...

There has been growing interest from stakeholders around the world in recent years in how to build momentum for private ...

Thu Duc, a rapidly urbanizing area of Ho Chi Minh City, is well located and heavily invested in policy ambition, yet its output and density remain far below what its position in the metropolitan ...

While the literature on the minimum wage is largely retrospective, analyzing impacts of past policy changes, this paper is uniquely forward-looking, forecasting how a proposed reform in Ukraine would ...

Raising revenue right is a defining challenge for emerging market and developing economies. Tax systems must do three things ...

There is growing evidence that appropriate financial services have substantial benefits for consumers, especially women and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around ...

This report presents the findings of a World Bank cybersecurity maturity assessment of Andhra Pradesh’s public health sector, conducted at the request of the Department of Health and Family Welfare ...