The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to level the playing field by applying the same carbon price faced by domestic producers under the Emission Trading System to the emissions embodied...
This report examines the causes of different development outcomes and suggests ways to promote inclusive prosperity and peace. It does so by looking at wealth sharing through three prisms: time, space...
East Asia is helping the rest of the world decarbonize and encouraging the domestic adoption of renewable energy. But there is an imbalance: Even as the region’s innovation and investment improve global...
East Asia is helping the rest of the world decarbonize and encouraging the domestic adoption of renewable energy. But there is an imbalance: Even as the region’s innovation and investment improve global...
This report analyzes the impact of new technologies, such as robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms, on labor markets in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Technical feasibility...
This report analyzes the impact of new technologies, such as robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms, on labor markets in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Technical feasibility...
In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, total factor productivity growth has slowed over the past two decades. Why this slowdown has come at a time of rapid technological progress is a puzzle. This...
In the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, total factor productivity growth has slowed over the past two decades. Why this slowdown has come at a time of rapid technological progress is a puzzle. This...
The June 2025 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several important changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. The most important change is the adoption of...
This report analyzes the cost of key investments for low-carbon and climateresilient urban development in all L&MICs from 2020 to 2050 across several sectors. For the purposes of this report, “city climate...
This report analyzes the cost of key investments for low-carbon and climateresilient urban development in all L&MICs from 2020 to 2050 across several sectors. For the purposes of this report, “city climate...
This background paper outlines the methodologies and detailed results of the investment costs estimation conducted for the study, Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization (Deuskar...
Countries frequently revise how they measure income or consumption due to changes in data collection and questionnaire design. These changes create comparability breaks in poverty trends over time. This...
This note presents the 9th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, drawing on the latest country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of June 2025. The...
Au Sahel, les programmes d’inclusion économique jouent un rôle crucial face aux défis combinés de la pauvreté, du changement climatique et de la fragilité. En apportant un soutien intégré aux ménages vulnérables...
In this paper we describe the Stata program cache, which allows for the full output of any Stata command to be cached to disk, enabling easy recovery of command output in the future without the need for...
Bhutan’s real GDP growth rate remained robust in FY23/24. The agriculture sector grew modestly due to lower crop yields. The industry sector grew modestly, supported by strong growth in mining and quarrying...
Food insecurity is a persistent global problem affecting hundreds of millions of people each year. Transport Connectivity for Food Security in Africa: Strengthening Supply Chains confirms the complexity...
Within the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) have the potential to enhance the efficiency, breadth, and validity of the collection, processing, and analysis...
Judicial map reforms refer to an emerging stream of reform programs that attempts to improve the responsiveness of the justice system by adjusting the courts’ location, size, and jurisdiction to demographic...