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Digital G2P payments offer more than convenience—they offer financial inclusion. Explore how the World Bank's G2Px initiative is transforming recipient experiences globally.
Digital public infrastructure can enable essential society-wide functions and services such as identification, payments, and data exchange.
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…
In this paper, the authors discuss how decision-making in the public policy sphere is influenced by three overlapping contexts: institutional, group, and individual.
Governance is the effective result of a social contract between the state & the citizen – sometimes explicit, but more often implied. This mutually beneficial agreement is is predicated on…
Mobile government (mGov) offers developing countries several benefits for their citizens including financial inclusion, wider access to services and improved government social accountability.
The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating lives and livelihoods globally. Before the pandemic, the World Bank projected that 35 million people in East Asia and the Pacific would escape poverty in 2020…
Here are 7 things you need to know about taxing sugar-sweetened beverages.
East Asia Pacific’s (EAP) strong economic performance over the past few decades has significantly benefited and empowered women in the region, bringing better health and education and greater…
In Brazil, a woman trained through the School of Women Leaders explains to her neighbors what she has learned. Photo: Maria do Carmo Carvalho / Habitat for Humanity [[tweetable]]Despite the fact…