This report introduces the Bangkok Blueprint for Fraud-Resilient Financial Services, launched during the 2026 IMF–WBG Annual ...

This report presents baseline findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating such a program for Syrian refugees and ...

This study, carried out by the World Bank (WB) in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Caribbean ...

Jobs are the primary driver of movements into and out of poverty, yet which kinds of employment transitions are most closely ...

This paper constructs a new global database that links harmonized labor-market information from household surveys to the ...

This brief examines how tax policy and tax administration shape firms’ experience with the tax system, drawing on firm-level ...

In this context it highlights the importance of facilitating accelerated employment generation to address the issue of high levels of urban unemployment. This report is organized as follows: ...

Yemen’s fisheries are a vital economic and social asset, supporting coastal livelihoods, providing food security, and ...

This Technical Note evaluates the contribution of Morocco’s blue economy to its economic, environmental, and social development. It draws on four analytical workstreams: estimating the blue economy’s ...

This report examines how the Philippines can strengthen fiscal sustainability while promoting inclusive economic growth as it advances as an upper-middle-income economy. The review finds that the ...

This paper examines the role of competition as a catalyst for the adoption and usage of digital financial services and financial inclusion in developing economies. While foundational regulatory ...

This brief uses the administrative database of Pakistan’s largest online job platform and an online COVID-19 survey to examine the gender impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor markets and other ...