The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases is pressuring countries and health systems in the Caribbean at a rate of epidemic proportions.

Lilia Burunciuc, Timothy Antoine |

Electronic devices enable innovations in survey design, such as questionnaires that adapt to responses. This blog leverages the potential to create a new survey-based tool for determining…

Tim Ohlenburg, Juul Pinxten, Daniel Fricke, Fabio Caccioli |

Supporting investments in the childcare and early development can deliver long-term human capital gains for Indonesia's future generations of workers.

Anna O'Donnell |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces six papers published in January of 2023 on various topics, including gender,…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |

Learn from Indonesia and Sri Lanka on how health systems are fuelled by their financing arrangements and getting them right is crucial for ensuring people remain at their heart.

Christoph Kurowski, Kara Hanson, Somil Nagpal |

Speaking with families in the village of Serdang Kulon in October I got a sense of the momentous change currently underway to ensure children across Indonesia get every chance for a healthy and…

Mamta Murthi |

New Evidence from Telephone Surveys Provides Insights for Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean

Amy Margolies, Jacobus de Hoop, Phillis Kim, Anna Luisa Paffhausen, Laura Di Giorgio |

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 |

On the 31st of August, Indonesia gave its 100 millionth dose of the COVID vaccine. A major milestone for one of the most COVID-affected countries in the world with about 270 million people and…

Satu Kahkonen, Aparnaa Somanathan |