This paper, based on the Mattei Lecture that the author delivered at the 2025 Africa Growth and Opportunity–Research in Action Conference, argues that Africa can anchor a new model of growth—and ...

This study provides an assessment of Ukraine’s transport workforce and skills landscape during a period of profound change. As maritime and air routes remain suspended, road freight, road passenger, ...

Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys from 2006 to 2023, this paper studies the corporate ethical standards of ...

The final quarter has seen the continuing adjustment of the Indonesian economy to more subdued commodity prices and tighter ...

This report explores how scarce public resources can be used most effectively to achieve universal delivery of water supply and sanitation services. It analyzes the prevalence and performance of ...

Revenue collection for the first three months of 2025 reached 36.7 percent of the State budget’s annual plan compared to 31.7 ...

This report analyzes five critical public investment bottlenecks cutting across the project cycle. The selection of these ...

Tajikistan has successfully emerged from the global economic crisis. Economic activity was strong, driven by growth in ...

A reform in Burundi's coffee sector is currently under way. Even though the reform was launched by the government of Burundi in 1992, it was only in 2008 that implementation fully started. The ...

Benoit Decerf, Kike Fonton, Sharpening the Welfare-Consistency of the Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Identification Method, with Illustration on Nigerian Data, The World Bank Economic Review, ...

M Niaz Asadullah, Monica Biradavolu, Vijayendra Rao, Kenneth Simler, Is There an Underside to Economic Growth? A ...

Florencia Devoto, Emanuela Galasso, Kathleen Beegle, Stefanie Brodmann, Women at Work: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 39, Issue 4, ...