With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), world leaders made a bold pledge in 2015 to leave no one behind on the path of development by 2030. Half-way to the target date, some 22 countries…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner, Umar Serajuddin |

Waste amounted to 3.3 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, with landfills the primary source. As climate change continues to pose an ever-looming existential threat to the world and…

Ailin Tomio, Kremena M. Ionkova, Silpa Kaza |

Learn about the World Bank’s commitment to enhance the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in results-based climate finance.

Pablo Mis, Jennifer J. Sara, Asyl Undeland |

Understanding the various shades of the grey economy is a complex but necessary endeavor for researchers and policymakers alike.

Filip Jolevski, Yew Chong Soh |

People’s ability to afford electricity to light their homes or power their domestic appliances, pay for gas to cook or heat their homes, or buy fuel to run their businesses has been a concern for…

Defne Gencer |

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 |

This World Refugee Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on what works and what doesn’t to best support refugees and host countries in a world often suffering persistent conflict, violence, and…

Xavier Devictor |

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 |

Pollution is undermining the competitiveness and growth of economies today and setting economies up to fail tomorrow. 1 in 3 children have blood lead levels at or above 5 micrograms/deciliter when…

Valerie Hickey |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces four papers published from November 16 to November 30 on various topics,…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |