The fourth edition of the Global Findex offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during the COVID-19 pandemic, when mobility restrictions and health policies drove increased ...

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

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

The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and ...

Vietnam's export-led growth strategy and global integration are among the key factors behind thecountry's remarkable achievements in growth and poverty reduction over the last two and a halfdecades.

While the Philippines has achieved remarkable progress in raising the education level of its labor force, the standard proxy for educational attainment—years of formal schooling—is increasingly ...

The Maldivian economy relies heavily on tourism and fisheries; the labor gap persists. This study seeks to understand these dynamics and propose concrete solutions to foster gender-equitable value ...

The value-added tax (VAT) has proved to be a highly effective tool at raising revenue in developed and developing countries alike. However, the effective operation of the VAT breaks down in the ...

Liberia’s lack of effectiveness in handling judicial disputes has been consistently recognized as a weakness and one of the main obstacles to the country’s transition out of fragility. Liberia ...

Between 2019 and 2022, Madagascar experienced an acute drought that triggered a chronic food security crisis, drawing justified attention to its nutritional and poverty-related impacts. However, local ...

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

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