Technical education offers a powerful educational alternative as it can provide practical knowledge in a short time and link students with the productive sector more easily, thus contributing to…

Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Catalina Castillo, Helena Rovner |

Urgent reforms on broadband policy would hasten the digital transformation the Philippines needs to achieve its goal of becoming a prosperous middle-class society by 2040.

Naoto Kanehira, Mitch Abdon, Mary Grace Mirandilla-Santos |

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

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Ciro Avitabile, Marjorie Chinen |

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 |

Virtual laboratories, that allow students to simulate risks and emergencies without real pressure or danger, are a promising tool to train students to prevent industrial risks. Available studies…

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Catalina Castillo, Cristina Medina, Jimmy Vainstein |

Providing internet access with reliability, affordability, and speed is essential to bringing more equitable impacts to vulnerable communities.

Niccolò Comini, Nicola Perra, Nicolò Gozzi |

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

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

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 |

As Vietnam’s economic success in the last decades has improved lives for most, the challenge of including ethnic minority populations from remote and mountainous areas in the benefits of growth…

Giorgia DeMarchi, Susan Shen |