The Country Opinion Survey in Bolivia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Bolivia ...

Quotas, which expand opportunities, can effectively increase women’s descriptive representation when properly designed and ...

Increasing levels of pollution, particularly from poor waste management, further compound the effects of climate change by ...

Banks in emerging markets are increasingly providing non-financial services to their SME clients, typically consisting of ...

The conflict in the Middle East—the latest of an extraordinary series of shocks in recent years—has heightened geopolitical ...

Since its inception in 2008, the Development Policy Financing (DPF) with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) instrument has seen significant expansion across all regions, channeling ...

According to the June 2013 global economic prospects, the global economic environment remains fragile, although the balance ...

This brief summarizes the main trends related to poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) using the ...

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, ...

With road infrastructure steadily expanding—and projections indicating significant growth—it is important to ensure that road construction and upgrades do not trigger direct and indirect biodiversity ...

As tariffs have declined, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become central to trade policy, especially in high-income countries and regulated sectors like food and green technologies. Although NTMs may ...

It is necessary to unlock large pools of private capital and attract foreign investment to drive low-carbon transition.