Financial Sector

The Commodity Markets Outlook in nine charts

The nine charts in this Commodity Markets Outlook highlight commodity price developments with a focus on oil prices, natural gas purchases, fertilizer affordability, food prices, and precious…

John Baffes, Peter Nagle|
Agriculture and Food, Competitiveness, Energy, Extractive Industries, Financial Sector, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Trade

“Greening” the capital markets

Social bond issuance jumped sevenfold in 2020, primarily targeting health care, education, and small and medium enterprises. Despite this significant growth, sovereign green, social, and…

Valentina Saltane|
Climate Change, Debt, Energy, Environment, Extractive Industries, Financial Sector, Governance, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

What are the long-term effects of high school financial education?

The financial education program had no effect on long-run bank account ownership, but a high percentage of students (85 percent) have a bank account after graduating high school

Miriam Bruhn, Gabriel Garber, Sérgio Mikio Koyama, Bilal Zia|
Financial Sector

Can fiscal policy reduce inequality in a globalized world?

The 4th World Bank Tax Conference exposed the magnitude of the challenge to build equitable tax systems via policies that improve compliance of the very wealthy. This blog highlights a summary of…

Pierre Bachas, Chiara Bronchi, Thiago Scot, Claudia Vargas|
Education, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Governance, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

Beti Kamao: Empowering India’s Micro-level Women Entrepreneurs

BETI is World Bank’s pilot in the area of digital financial inclusion to help micro-level women entrepreneurs learn how to use mobile-based solutions to improve their bookkeeping, better manage…

Tushar Arora, Karthik Laxman, Sharmista Appaya|
Digital Development, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Gender, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Poverty
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Financial Sector