Data News

How have women’s legal rights evolved over the last 50 years?

Today, women have just three-quarters of the legal rights of men. In 1970, it was less than half. The Women, Business and the Law 2020 report presented results from our recent effort to...

Tea Trumbic|
Gender

Data Dive 2019: Hackathon brings data scientists together for development

In October 2019, members of Data Science DC (a meetup within Data Community DC) teamed up with World Bank staff for a Data Dive Hackathon at the World Bank.

Haishan Fu, Dino Merotto, Janet Dobbins|

Living in a two-speed world: Extreme poverty is declining in most countries but stagnating in economies in fragility or conflict

A new report, “Fragility and Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty,” applies the freshly updated World Bank classification criteria for economies in fragile and conflict-…

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Tara Vishwanath, Alexander Irwin|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Poverty

From better data to development solutions: Capacity building in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Statistics for Results Facility (SRF), a multi-donor trust fund, worked with countries to improve the production, availability, and use of data for evidence-based decision making...

Masako Hiraga, Yele Batana, Melat Assefa|

Energy prices retreated while non-energy prices advanced in January—Pink Sheet

Energy commodity prices declined more than 3% in January, led by natural gas in Europe (-21%) and the U.S. (-9.5%) the World Bank Pink Sheet reported. Crude oil fell as well (-2.7%)...

John Baffes, Maria Hazel Macadangdang|