This study aims to establish a regional benchmark of the costs associated with acquiring and operating e-buses and charging infrastructure in LAC, and to explain the significant cost variation ...

Industrial policy—the range of policy tools governments use to shape what an economy produces, rather than leaving it to ...

This paper studies job preferences among women in rural and peri-urban areas in El Salvador using a discrete choice ...

Corruption poses a significant threat to development and has a disproportionate impact on the poor and most vulnerable. Government agencies struggle to identify fraud and corruption in public ...

Business dynamism and economic growth in Europe and Central Asia have weakened since the late 2000s, with productivity growth driven largely by resource reallocation between firms and sectors rather ...

While there are strong theoretical arguments for ways in which public spending influences growth, robust empirical links have been difficult to establish. More recently, many of the methodological ...

Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded ...

With its ability to sink carbon, sustain marine biodiversity, employ women, and unlock value chains, seaweed farming demonstrates how development, climate, and nature work together to generate value ...

The World Bank’s Digital Transformation and Its Role in Expanding Women’s Economic Opportunities in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon ...

In many low- and middle-income countries, the missing jobs problem is typically framed as a shortfall in labor demand. Yet sustained output growth often coexists with limited durable wage employment, ...

Across many countries, young adults face a persistent skills mismatch, with firms reporting difficulty finding candidates with adequate soft skills. In Rwanda, young women face particularly acute ...

Policy-makers across developing economies are implementing different forms of special economic zones (SEZs): programs intended to catalyze economic growth. The SEZ program is aimed at attracting ...