The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has developed country profiles to assess the progress of developing PPP legal frameworks and carried out a comparative analysis of existing legal and…

Maude Vallée, Andrea Stucchi |

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 |

Less than half of EU member states that operate passenger railways offer services with commercial speeds over 200km/h. Nearly a third of passenger railway routes in the EU between medium or large…

Shomik Mehndiratta, Daniel Pulido, Luis C. Blancas, Victor Aragones, Mercedes Gutierrez |

When conflicts end, the tragic impact of lives lost, damages, and the countless needs of people left in its wake are overwhelmingly visible. There are also other long-lasting and damaging…

A.S. Harinath, Ahmed Ali |

Dealing with taxes and customs in Armenia may feel like a giant puzzle to citizens and businesses when it comes to compliance and payments. The World Bank is providing practical support through…

Arman Vatyan, Anahit Basentsyan, Artur Tamazian |

Armenia has set out ambitious goals in its Government Program 2021-2026 related to democracy, rule of law, anticorruption, growth and creating equal opportunities for all. At the same time there…

Eva Melis, Nane Harutyunyan |

While Armenia's economy continues to perform well in the face of ongoing global pressures, structural challenges persist. A partnership between FCDO and the World Bank, in consultation with…

Arman Vatyan, Artur Tamazian, Anahit Basentsyan, Reinhard Haslinger, Elin Carmichael |

The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) is the largest and most effective platform for fighting extreme poverty in the world’s lowest-income countries. As new IDA donors,…

Antonella Bassani, Akihiko Nishio |

This blog highlights two studies from past World Bank's Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)-supported research that demonstrate the importance of a data-driven and evidence-based approach to…

Kerina Wang, Lauren Nicole Core, KCP Program Management Unit (KCP PMU) |

PPPs have undergone a shift from being understood as a risk mitigation exercise for the public and private sectors to agreements that can bring broad development benefits. Learn more about where…

Jean-Christophe Barth-Coullaré |