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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

How reliable are public debt statistics This paper quantifies the magnitude, characteristics, and timing of hidden debt by tracking ex post data revisions across a comprehensive new database of more ...

In our increasingly interconnected world, where digital technologies are rapidly transforming multiple aspects of daily life, ...