Business Ready (B-READY) is a World Bank Group corporate flagship report that provides a quantitative assessment of the business and investment climate worldwide. It offers a comprehensive data set ...

This Railway Reform Toolkit aims to provide an easy-to-use resource on the rail industry and to provide an experience-based set of best practices to aid in the planning and execution of railway ...

This public expenditure review (PER) 2022-2023 identifies options for an effective, sustainable, and inclusive fiscal adjustment. It therefore details Uganda’s macro-fiscal challenges and government’s ...

In Pakistan, learning poverty among primary school aged children is estimated to be as high as 77 percent, but little data exist on early learning experiences. This paper describes the state of ...

The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side ...

The overall objective of the Zambezi River Multi-Sector Investment Opportunity Analysis (MSIOA) is to illustrate the benefits of cooperation among the riparian countries in the ZRB through a multi ...

Myanmar is a country in transition and faces the following main challenges: a) reducing the incidence of poverty and improving human development outcomes, particularly for the poor and vulnerable; ...

Technological change is transforming labor markets globally and across Africa, reshaping the demand for skills, particularly digital competencies. To remain relevant, education and training systems ...

This paper examines whether the African Growth and Opportunity Act—the United States’ unilateral trade preference program for Sub‑Saharan Africa—has served as an effective instrument for development ...

The author considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza with respect to trade and the export of labor services.

The Lao economy is projected to grow at 8 percent in 2013. The hydropower sector (both completed projects in operation and projects in the construction or development phase), construction, food ...

Single-use plastics (SUPs) are a major concern in countries such as the Philippines due to SUPs’ extensive use and ...