Middle-income countries are in a race
against time. Many of them have done well since the 1990s to
escape low-income levels and eradicate extreme poverty,
leading to...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 192949Date: August 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Middle-income countries are in a race
against time. Many of them have done well since the 1990s to
escape low-income levels and eradicate extreme poverty,
leading to...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 192949Date: August 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Migration is a development challenge.
About 184 million people-2.3 percent of the
world’s population-live outside of their country
of nationality. Almost half...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 181750Date: April 26, 2023Author:
World Bank
The WDR will chart a path toward better
mobility by identifying approaches, policies, and programs
that can optimize development outcomes in the face of the
global forces...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 171737Date: May 24, 2022Author:
World Bank
World Development Report 2022 (WDR 2022)
examines the central role of finance in the economic
recovery from COVID-19. Based on an in-depth look at the
consequences of...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 168732Date: February 15, 2022Author:
World Bank
World Development Report 2022 (WDR 2022)
examines the central role of finance in the economic
recovery from COVID-19. Based on an in-depth look at the
consequences of...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 168732Date: February 15, 2022Author:
World Bank
Today’s unprecedented growth
of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the
data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of
the value of...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 157695Date: April 19, 2021Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell
The World Development Report 2021: Data
for Better Lives will examine the tremendous potential of
the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor
people but...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 148240Date: May 1, 2020
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the
surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for
almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an
unprecedented economic...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 142500Date: October 8, 2019
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the
surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for
almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an
unprecedented economic...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 142500Date: October 8, 2019
The forthcoming World Development Report
(WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the
nature of work is changing as a result of advances in
technology today....
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 130189Date: January 29, 2019
The forthcoming World Development Report
(WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the
nature of work is changing as a result of advances in
technology today....
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 130189Date: February 16, 2018Author:
Djankov,Simeon ;
Saliola,Federica ;
Avitabile,Ciro ;
Chen,Rong - DECID ;
Connon,Davida Louise ;
Cusolito,Ana Paula ;
Gatti,Roberta V. ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Islam,Asif Mohammed ;
Kraay,Aart C. ;
Sabarwal,Shwetlena ;
Santos,Indhira Vanessa ;
Sharrock,David William ;
Tan,Consuelo Jurado ;
Zheng,Yucheng
Korea understood that education was the
best way to pull itself out of economic misery, so it
focused on overhauling schools and committed itself to
educating every...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 120299Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Rogers,F. Halsey ;
Al-Samarrai,Samer ;
Bendini,Maria Magdalena ;
Beteille,Tara ;
Evans, David ;
Kivine, Märt ;
Sabarwal,Shwetlena ;
Valerio,Alexandria ;
Abu-Jawdeh,Malek ;
Larson,Bradley Robert ;
Shrestha,Unika ;
Yuan,Fei
What role do institutional constraints
and social norms play in determining persistent gender
gapsin economic and political participation and have
institutional reforms...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 116405Date: June 13, 2017Author:
Milazzo,Annamaria ;
Goldstein,Markus P.
Why are carefully designed, sensible
policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they
are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes
such as security,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112303Date: January 30, 2017
After decades of billion dollar scandals
around long-serving dictators removing vast fortunes from
their impoverished nations, the broader phenomenon of which
this is...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112973Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Reuter,Peter
In this paper, the authors approach
water governance not only through the prism of sectoral
organization and the official services, but also through all
of the practices,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112881Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Botton,Sarah ;
Hardy,Sébastien ;
Poupeau,Franck
In the last years of the armed conflict,
some of the actors that have participated in those
clandestine operations re-adapted their modus operandi to
fit other types...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112904Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Carrera, Fernando
To understand why corruption has become
the crucial issue for the latest generation of
protestmovements and uprisings, from Tunisia to Moldova and
from India to Brazil,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 116067Date: January 1, 2017
This report presents following topics
related to governance and the law: why do ineffective
policies often persist?; why are second-best solutions often
effective?;...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 116033Date: January 1, 2017Author:
000212818:Edouard Al-Dahdah:ealdahdah@worldbank. ;
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