South Africa’s abundant renewable energy resources, strategic maritime location, and comprehensive port system position it to ...

The broad-based slowdown in growth rates has profound implications for the world’s ability to tackle the growing array of ...

This study aims to further address gaps in research related to commercial financing challenges in Local Currency Financing ...

Teach Primary (Teach) is a classroom observation tool developed by the World Bank that has been used in over 30 middle income countries across the world. It captures the quality of teaching practices ...

Despite the reduction in transport costs over the past few decades, creating a single integrated economy remains elusive. Low ...

The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) lays out the priorities for the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) engagement to support ...

This paper provides novel evidence of the trade-offs policy makers face when designing simplified tax regimes for small ...

Yet, capital incentive policies present in every OECD country are still targeted towards investments in informational ...

This study expands the inventory of green job titles by incorporating a global perspective and using contemporary sources. It ...

It supports countries in addressing the implications of the demographic process through analytical work, technical advice, ...

How reliable are public debt statistics This paper quantifies the magnitude, characteristics, and timing of hidden debt by tracking ex post data revisions across a comprehensive new database of more ...

This gives rise to questions regarding what types of employment opportunities or interventions can draw women into work in such contexts. In this study in urban Djibouti, with restrictive gender norms ...