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

Meanwhile, researchers are increasingly relying on data tracking announcements of FDI projects, rather than traditional balance-of-payments information, which reflects actual investments. What share ...

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

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

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

Like many European countries, Sweden faces a growing array of natural hazards, including floods, storms, wildfires, landslides, and climate-related events, as well as their potential cascading effects ...

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 ...

While Nepal maintained overall macroeconomic stability, the flood caused widespread loss of life, extensive infrastructure ...

Bangladesh Development Update is a bi-annual publication by the World Bank. This report provides an assessment of the state of the Bangladesh economy, outlook, risks, and the key reform challenge the ...

Thailand is undergoing one of the most rapid demographic transitions in the world and is on track to become a “super-aged” society—with more than 20 percent of its population over 65—by 2033. The ...

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