Kenya is at a pivotal moment in advancing prosperity for adolescent girls. With a solid educational base already established, the country has a unique chance to broaden its efforts toward comprehensive...
Globally, the expansion of social assistance is among the most common public policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scale of these programs is unprecedented both in terms of government spending...
Understanding the Experiences of Digital G2P Payment Recipients: A Qualitative Research Toolkit aims to facilitate the study of recipient experiences of Government-to-Person payments (G2P), with a view...
Digital G2P payments have the potential to increase women’s economic empowerment—enabling them to generate, accumulate, and control income and assets—particularly when payments are disbursed into fully...
This report presents the research findings in accordance with the three objectives of the study. It encompasses a comprehensive assessment of current policies and regulations pertaining to open data provision...
This Performance and Learning Review (PLR) summarizes the progress of the World Bank Group (WBG) Country Partnership Framework (CPF) covering FY21-25 for Mongolia, extends the CPF period by two years and...
The Caribbean region faces a growing youth employment challenge, as outdated infrastructure and limited digital skills continue to constrain economic opportunities and resilience. For much of the last...
The April 2025 research newsletter features the topic 'Paving the Path to Progress: Infrastructure’s Potential to Accelerate Development'. The lead item is a summary of this month’s featured research...
This assessment aims to inform a roadmap for FBiH's digital transformation to enhance public service delivery. It evaluates the current state of key digital and non-digital enablers of e-government (strategies...
This paper presents a one-World Bank Group (WBG) framework for understanding and implementing digital public infrastructure (DPI) to accelerate safe and inclusive digital transformation. DPI is an approach...
This paper examines global disparities in artificial intelligence preparedness, using the 2023 Artificial Intelligence Preparedness Index developed by the International Monetary Fund alongside the multidimensional...
From 2018 to 2022, household access to home internet in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased from 50.7 to 68.4 percent, with higher access rates in urban areas (ITU, 2023). In most countries...
Research on the labor market implications of artificial intelligence has focused principally on high-income countries. This paper analyzes this issue using microdata from a large set of low- and middle-income...