Jennifer Sara, the World Bank's new Climate Change Group Global Director, reflects on the World Bank's work on climate.

Creating new jobs is one of the biggest challenges facing low- and middle-income countries. This blog assesses the short-term impacts of two innovative interventions to enhance private sector…

Ukraine and Russia supply key goods to the world economy: food products such as wheat, corn, and seed oils, and energy products and fertilisers for agriculture. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated…

A new analysis just published in Nature Communications estimates that 1.81 billion people face significant flood risk worldwide.

This World Bank report suggests that, in many countries, policy-makers ability to stabilize their public debt ratios through fiscal tightening may be restrained by budget rigidities that predated…

“Digital Senegal for Inclusive Growth: Technological Transformation for Better and More Jobs” presents new data on enterprises and households adopting and using digital technologies. Senegal is…

A generation of students across the globe will likely suffer lifelong losses to their earning potential because of the closure of schools and universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kuwaiti…

More than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas, but most social assistance programs in developing countries have traditionally concentrated on the rural poor. Learn about how the…

For over a decade, Women, Business and the Law has been examining laws affecting women's participation in the economy. The 2022 edition of the report contributes new pilot data on laws for…

In this week’s blog, we review PIP’s data API. API stands for Application Programming Interface, a very generic, and somewhat intimidating terminology. In practice though, a data API is just a way…