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Business Ready (B-READY) 2024 report assesses the regulatory framework and public services directed at firms, and the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice.

The Middle-Income Trap. Lower-middle-income countries must go beyond investment-driven strategies—they must also adopt modern technologies and successful business practices from abroad and infuse them across their economies. Upper-middle-income countries need to accelerate the shift to innovation, by pushing the global frontiers of technology.

The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund has released a new Evidence to Policy note [pdf] on the impact evaluation of a jobs training program in Turkey. The evaluation, found that the vocational training didn’t improve people’s chances of being employed three years later, despite a small short-term improvement the first year.