This Brief is the second in a two-part series that provides an overview of the electricity sector's demand-side and supply-side environmental regulations. Specifically, this Brief focuses on measures implemented...
Good Neighbours 2: Connecting for an Empowered South Asia, successor to Good Neighbours 1 report, offers a deeply personal lens through which to understand regionalism in practice. The ten case studies...
The increasing need for digital skills is driving countries worldwide to invest heavily in digital skills education, but the most effective practices for developing these skills remain unclear. This paper...
This study explores the link between digital skills, innovation, and economic transformation in the context of Africa, focusing on the role and potential contribution of higher education institutions in...
This background paper examines the critical issue of how to enhance digital skills among youth who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in Africa to prevent approximately 72 million young...
his paper examines the current state of the gender digital skills divide in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), drawing on a broad set of data sources to assess disparities between men and women across key dimensions...
This paper examines vertical skills mismatch in Türkiye using a refined measure that adjusts for occupation, age group, sector, and year to isolate genuine education-job misalignment from compositional...
The rapid expansion of the digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) presents opportunities and challenges in addressing the gender digital skills divide. This report analyzes comprehensive, genderresponsive...
Digital technologies are increasingly important for delivering inclusive, resilient, and high-quality education, yet financing their effective deployment remains a key constraint in many low- and middleincome...
This study provides a comprehensive review of digital skills frameworks, competences, and assessment tools, emphasizing the critical role of digital proficiency in personal, professional, and educational...
Causal evidence on the effectiveness of refugee labor market integration programs remains limited. This report presents baseline findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating such a program for...
This Country Program Evaluation assesses the performance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Georgia in achieving the country’s development objectives. In the decade leading up to the...
DRFA focuses on achieving a balance of financial mechanisms that maximize the welfare for households, the economic activity and resilience for communities, and the budget efficiency and certainty for governments...
Artifcial Intelligence (AI) has briskly entered numerous fields of human activity, including the legal realm. Its advancement is so swift that researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are often left...
This evaluation assesses the relevance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group's support to Tanzania between Fiscal Years 2012 and 2022. Over the past decade, Tanzania has experienced resilient growth...
The World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development (eMBeD) unit and Health, Nutrition, and Population team joined forces with WHO to leverage behavioral science to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and...
Electricity services are essential for private sector development, as they support production, foster new business creation, and enhance competitiveness. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys...
Adoption of economic inclusion programs (bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets) is...
Adoption of economic inclusion programs (bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets) is...
The Country Opinion Survey in Equatorial Guinea assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Equatorial Guinea perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback...