South Africa’s abundant renewable energy resources, strategic maritime location, and comprehensive port system position it to ...

The World Bank Group, together with the African Development Bank, has committed to providing access to electricity to 300 ...

The broad-based slowdown in growth rates has profound implications for the world’s ability to tackle the growing array of ...

Despite the reduction in transport costs over the past few decades, creating a single integrated economy remains elusive. Low ...

The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) lays out the priorities for the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) engagement to support ...

This paper provides novel evidence of the trade-offs policy makers face when designing simplified tax regimes for small ...

Yet, capital incentive policies present in every OECD country are still targeted towards investments in informational ...

The World Bank Group delivered a record $42.6 billion in climate finance in fiscal year 2024—which covers July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024—supporting efforts to end poverty on a livable planet, investing ...

It supports countries in addressing the implications of the demographic process through analytical work, technical advice, ...

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 ...

This gives rise to questions regarding what types of employment opportunities or interventions can draw women into work in such contexts. In this study in urban Djibouti, with restrictive gender norms ...