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

Global growth is expected to hold steady at 2.7 percent in 2025-26. However, the global economy appears to be settling at a low growth rate that will be insufficient to foster sustained economic ...

Key findings from the study are grouped below in three sections. First section describes the dynamics of female LFP looking at its evolution in previous two decades. The next section presents the ...

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

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

Oil price increases that began in late 2020 have led to a global proliferation of liquid fuel subsidies and price controls, as governments sought to reduce, redistribute, or delay the impact of rising ...

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

In 2022 and 2023, food price inflation reached or exceeded 10 percent in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, ...

The Philippines economy posted robust growth in early 2010, in part due to large one-off factors. As did many countries in ...

Well-designed, high integrity carbon markets can play a pivotal role in financing climate action in developing countries. However, several critical bottlenecks impede the growth of these markets. The ...

The Open Knowledge Repository by the World Bank provides access to a vast collection of research and publications on global development.

The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first ...