This work contributes to CGAP’s vision for a Responsible Digital Finance Ecosystem (RDFE), where financial and nonfinancial authorities, providers, consumer representatives, and market facilitators collaborate...
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...
Supporting countries in their fertility transitions can entail different entry points, such as improving access to reproductive health services, raising awareness and knowledge of family planning, promoting...
Burundi’s shift from its initial management information systems (MIS) to the open-source CORE-MIS (powered by open IMIS) offers valuable insights in terms of implementation approach for other countries...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
This Guidance Note was developed to support Public Employment Services in navigating complex decisions involved in digitalizing employment services. As the role of PES evolves with the need to balance...