New data from the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law project shed light on the gender dimensions of taxation and public spending—two key fiscal policy tools that impact economic growth and ...

From Threads to Hubs offers a new analytical and operational framework organized around four interdependent pillars. - First ...

Distribution sensitive welfare and poverty measures are designed to respond to low values of individual income or consumption. However, very small positive values can have an extreme influence on many ...

The resilience of the countries of Europe and Central Asia is tested again by the crisis in the Middle East and rising energy import prices. Growth in the region is likely to weaken to 2.2 percent on ...

The overall objective of the present study is to contribute to the knowledge-base that is urgently required for the implementation of sustainable rural development activities in Haiti. The study ...

To achieve policy goals, South Asian countries make proactive use of industrial policies, at about twice the rate of other EMDEs. Since 2022, about half of South Asia’s industrial policies have been ...

Female labor force participation (FLFP) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains the lowest globally, averaging just 19% in 2023 compared to a global average of 48%. Persistent gender ...

Economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) has remained resilient amidst increased trade restrictions and ...

However, these outcomes are often collected in separate surveys, leaving the joint distribution partially unobserved. To ...

This brief summarizes evidence from a systematic review of 27 rigorous studies of the effects of providing access to capital ...

The March 2026 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) incorporates new data, as well as revisions to the data ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a richly diverse society undergoing intense economic and social transformation. With more than ...