Paraguay, an upper middle‑income country (UMIC), is blessed with abundant natural resources. This reliance on natural resources makes Paraguay vulnerable to weather‑related shocks, including those ...

Port reform is influenced by factors that include aspirations for change underpinned by complex internal and external drivers ...

Causal evidence on the effectiveness of refugee labor market integration programs remains limited. This report presents baseline findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating such a program ...

This paper examines vertical skills mismatch in Türkiye using a refined measure that adjusts for occupation, age group, sector, and year to isolate genuine education-job misalignment from ...

This Country Program Evaluation assesses the performance and effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Georgia in ...

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To address these challenges, social protection responses need to be tailored to both immediate and long-term needs. This evaluation assesses the World Bank's support for Adaptive Social Protection ...

While investment-led growth may offer quick wins, it is efficiency, innovation, and institutional reform that will determine ...

The impacts of the March earthquake are continuing to disrupt lives and livelihoods, exacerbating the already very difficult economic conditions. The World Bank estimates that economic output losses ...

Angola’s economy rebounded strongly in 2024 with a real GDP growth of 4.4 percent, fueled by a revitalized oil sector and robust performance in non-oil industries like mining, commerce, and ...

Oil, Gas, and Mining: A Sourcebook for Understanding the Extractive Industries provides developing countries with a technical understanding and practical options around oil, gas, and mining sector ...

Pakistan can realize major economic growth and development by investing in its people and their human capital. But the reality is that Pakistan’s human capital is low and has improved only marginally ...