Poland has made significant progress in promoting gender equality, especially in education, where women now outperform men in many aspects of human capital development. However, these gains have not ...

And economic growth has been synonymous with structural transformation. How do patterns of growth and structural ...

This study contributes to understanding household-level exposure to flood risk in Paraguay by combining geolocated household survey data with novel flood hazard maps. The study estimates that more ...

The DRC Economic Update (DRCEU) evaluates the recent growth performance and macroeconomic policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), providing a basis for policy dialogue with the Government ...

This paper reviews both crisis-time programs and regular social protection operations to distill lessons that could be applicable for both contexts. It examines three programs from the Democratic ...

The Country Opinion Survey in China assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in China perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national ...

One defining feature of financial crises, evident in U.S. and international data, is asymmetric bank distress—concentrated losses on a subset of banks. This paper proposes a model in which shocks to ...

This paper describes a new survey designed to collect comprehensive and granular information about required skills and tasks for detailed occupations in Vietnam. The Survey of Detailed Skills asks ...

Over the last decades, Mali has faced a profound and multifaceted crisis encompassing economic, social, environmental, political, and human dimensions. The situation is further influenced by the ...

As renewable hydrogen becomes central to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel manufacturing or heavy transport, ...

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting the landscape of higher education (HE), presenting both opportunities and challenges. This paper discusses the results of focus ...

Home to more than 1 billion people, the 39 emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) classified as being in fragile ...