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Taxation offers an objective and measurable benchmark for global progress toward gender equality. However, we lack a global picture of how women are treated by tax policies. To address the gap,…

The World Bank, the Government of India’s Ministry of Rural Development, BRAC, BOMA, Jeevika, and India’s National Rural Livelihood Mission come together to share the learnings from Bangladesh,…

Taxing goods, such as tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages that cause health-related problems and generate harm to individuals as well as to society at large can reduce consumption of…

The region’s biggest risk at present is not another “lost decade” fueled by financial crises, but rather a decade of missed opportunities.

A new WIDER and World Bank working paper draws on findings from both tax administrative and survey data providing insights on how formal firms in Zambia recovered from COVID-19 after the…