Globally, data reveals that 40 to 60 percent of lower secondary education graduates struggle with mathematics proficiency.

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Ciro Avitabile, Marjorie Chinen |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group that were published in the World Bank’s Policy Research Working Paper Series. This entry…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |

In this blog, we highlight two projects that leveraged data-driven policymaking processes and simulations.

Kerina Wang, KCP Program Management Unit (KCP PMU) |

Detailed data on the spatial distribution of jobs is crucial, but such data are rarely available. This study develops a machine learning algorithm that relies on widely available public data to…

Paolo Avner, Jun Rentschler, Samira Barzin, Neave O'Clery |

This blog analyses the consequences of an energy shock on global growth. It puts the current rise in energy prices into historical context, presents model-based estimates of its growth impacts,…

Justin-Damien Guénette, Jeetendra Khadan |

The war in Ukraine has dealt a major shock to commodity markets and disrupted production and trade. In this scenario, price increases come on top of already tight commodity markets due to a solid…

John Baffes, Peter Nagle |

According to a new World Bank report, world trade will drop by one percent, lowering global GDP by just under one percent. This blog dives into how the war in Ukraine is reshaping world trade and…

Michele Ruta |

This page in: Français Across European countries, women continue to earn less than men. Looking at data for full-time working women across 30 countries, we find that women would have needed an…

Gabriela Inchauste, Ana Maria Munoz-Boudet, Paola Buitrago-Hernandez |

The small, open economies of the Western Balkans* are at various stages of progress on three transitions: the transition to market economy, the transition to EU membership, and the transition to…

Ivailo Izvorski |