The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) is for all people to receive the quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without incurring financial hardship. UHC covers the full ...

This paper provides the first comprehensive, cross-country evidence on the wage returns to digital skills, using more than 67 million job postings from 29 countries between 2021 and 2024. The paper ...

This paper examines the impact of improvements in digital infrastructure on labor market performance, focusing on employment and productivity, measured by average wages. The empirical setting exploits ...

This paper examines how shifts in investor demand influence firm financing and investment decisions. For identification, the paper exploits a large-scale MSCI methodo logical reform that mechanically ...

The Lao PDR CCDR analyzes how Lao PDR can achieve sustainable development while addressing climate change. Lao PDR ...

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the performance of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) assistance to the Republic of ...

The World Bank launched the Human Capital Index (HCI) to highlight the importance of investments in human capital and to ...

Solomon Islands has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the strength of its workforce development (WfD) policies and ...

This Public Finance Review (PFR)—the first such assessment by the World Bank for South Sudan— aims to evaluate the state of the nation’s public finances and provide actionable recommendations to ...

This paper makes an initial attempt to account for differences in the technologies used by women- and men-run businesses, that is, technological “heterogeneity,” for better understanding productivity ...

WASHINGTON, February 9, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $50 million in financing to boost Nepal’s digital public infrastructure and digitize public services, ...

These patterns signal that the most urgent bottleneck to education access is no longer entry into the system, but keeping adolescents in school and offering meaningful second chance pathways for those ...