The fourth edition of the Global Findex offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during the ...

Progress toward this goal faces challenges due to limitations in the execution and allocation of the country's health budget.

Rwanda’s growth rates during the past few years exceeded the growth rates of developing countries, except for in 2013 when Rwanda’s growth decelerated to 4.7 percent. Among the 181 economies where ...

By combining two complementary approaches, the gravity model and the Bartik model, this paper estimates: (i) the ...

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 ...

Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women ...

Building a skilled and diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial for economic development, cross-border trade, and social inclusion in South Asia. However, ...

This report provides an overview of the potential role that nature-based solutions (NBS) can play in ports. It aims to illustrate how NBS can be effectively integrated into port planning, design, and ...

Estimating the macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation options is a topic of intense research.

Estimating the macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation options is a topic of intense research. This paper presents a framework in the World Bank's macrostructural model to ...

This paper highlights the successes and challenges of international mental health innovations, providing a roadmap for ...

The World Bank and the IDB jointly developed the Amazonia Bond Issuance Guide¬lines (Guidelines) to provide guidance and ...