Paraguay has made considerable progress in capturing reliable data for the estimation of poverty at the national, urban and rural levels.

Matilde Bordón, Juan José Galeano, Eliana Rubiano-Matulevich |

About three-quarters of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean uses the Internet. The World Bank studies 24 countries in the region and provides three main findings on household digital…

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Niccolò Comini, Natalija Gelvanovska-Garcia |

Türkiye provides a great example of how a modern ecosystem for social assistance payment delivery is essential to building back better and creating a resilient society.   

Ahmet Fatih Ortakaya, Oya Ardic, Minita Varghese |

Mobile phones provide an efficient, reliable and cost-effective way of capturing and digitizing data. They also allow for rapid customization and variation in survey design. Building on this,…

Wenyu Jia, Edward Beukes, Justin Coetzee, Philip van Ryneveld |

In a recent visit to South Sudan, we met with livestock herders as they were tending to their livestock in a cattle camp outside of Juba. One of the most memorable conversations was with a woman…

Holger Kray, Tahira Syed, Ana Cristina Canales Gomez |

The World Bank carried out High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) in the region and Paraguay ranked fourth among the countries with the most worrisome results in the Mental Health Vulnerability Index…

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Luis Recalde-Ramírez |

The World Bank partnered with the Turkish government to explore an innovative and powerful way to accelerate data sharing, namely the creation of “data spaces,” with the broader objective of…

Charles Hurpy |

The global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has brought upon major challenges in the world’s economic system as governments imposed border restrictions, and businesses have had to shut down due to…

Michell Mositi Mompati |

From the start of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, women in leadership positions all around the world have played, and continue to play, significant roles in helping their communities get…

Ephraim Modise |

For nearly a century, Turkey has broken ground in areas of economic empowerment for women. Historically, the country was among the first nations to ratify laws that empowered women - from suffrage…

Heba Elgazzar |