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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year’s economic activity has been slower than previously anticipated due to emerging structural bottlenecks and continued external headwinds. This has prompted a sense of urgency to address the ...

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

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

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Structural sources of Africa’s inequality are rooted in laws, institutions, and practices that create advantages for a few but disadvantages for many. They include differences in living standards that ...

This report assesses the current performance of tourism in the Caribbean1 and, in light of the new trends, identifies future pathways and policies for sustainable growth in three targeted segments.