Nigeria stands at a critical juncture to unlock the potential of its adolescent girls. While national averages suggest ...

This World Bank report examines the urgent need to scale up climate adaptation finance in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), a region increasingly exposed to severe climate risks such as droughts, floods, ...

In principle, trade policy can complement direct aid to help poorer countries develop, but does it work in practice? The authors evaluate to what extent product-level exports from developing countries ...

Gabon has a unique opportunity to drive inclusive growth, reduce poverty, and build a resilient post-oil economy, with ...

Drawing on qualitative data from 11 key informants and 75 small-scale firm owners in South Africa’s townships, this paper identifies five factors shaping micro-entrepreneurial success. First, ...

Kazakhstan’s economic growth is expected to moderate but remain resilient over the medium term, following a period of strong ...

This paper studies the impact of rising heat on labor markets across Europe by combining geocoded district-level, ...

This policy note is intended to inform (i) data-driven decisions on program quotas and study relevance by the Ministry of Education and Science, (ii) the Government’s upcoming Higher Education ...

The authors study how the tariff cuts fueled structural transformation leveraging spatial variation in exposure to the tariff ...

Over 200 million children will be born in West and Central Africa (AFW) between 2025 and 2050, a major addition to total regional population of 534 million. By 2050, almost one in five young people ...

This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such ...

Update: The Spanish version of the full book was published on September 9, 2025. Latin America and the Caribbean has lost not decades but a century of growth due to its inability to learn—to identify, ...