This World Bank paper argues that transmission infrastructure is a stable operating asset with proven technologies that have remained largely unchanged for over a century. Furthermore,…

Debabrata Chattopadhyay, Durreh Tabassum |

Digital public infrastructure can enable essential society-wide functions and services such as identification, payments, and data exchange.

Vyjayanti T Desai, Jonathan Marskell, Georgina Marin, Minita Varghese |

While infrastructure has been perceived as gender-neutral, it can be deeply exclusionary if masculine sensibilities solely determine the design. How can private investors incentivize gender…

Luciana Guimaraes Drummond e Silva |

Against a tight deadline at the end of 2021, IFC’s regional PPP transaction advisory team got stakeholders to sign off on a restructured PPP for the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Int’l Airport,…

Muneer Ferozie |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces six papers published in January of 2023 on various topics, including gender,…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |

Given the growing connectivity between firms through global value chains, trade policy can be an important determinant of resilience. Our new research tests whether a country's trade policy…

Massimiliano Calì, Devaki Ghose, Michele Ruta, Angella Faith Montfaucon |

Indonesia has strived to bolster its stature in the global economy, and has recognized that improving its human resources and national capabilities in science and technology will be critical to…

Ratna Kesuma, Petra Wiyakti Bodrogini |

The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens the uneven recovery of East Asia and Pacific. The invasion comes on top of the economic distress caused by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the financial…

Aaditya Mattoo, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Ergys Islamaj |

Development projects can achieve better outcomes with fewer resources when donors work together at the country level. That is the conclusion of the Fiduciary Alignment Initiative, a joint Asian…

Suraiya Zannath, Svetlana V. Klimenko |

Prior to 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Indonesia’s economy had shown relatively strong growth over the last couple years, averaging at around 5 percent year-on-year. Infrastructure…

Angella Faith Montfaucon, Budi Permana, Assyifa Szami Ilman, Novira Kusdarti Asra, Tajuddin Mabaning Ismail, Arun Arya, Hari Purnomo |