The first, and the prerequisite for the others, strengthens the institutional foundation through enacting the Construction ...

The report presents technical guidance on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) in Lao PDR, focusing on forest extent over the period 2000–2022. It applies the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting ...

This report argues that broad reforms to current fiscal federalism arrangements are critical to addressing development ...

This Public Finance Review examines the Central African Republic’s efforts to strengthen public financial management and ...

The Bank of Thailand kept its policy rate unchanged. Financial market conditions improved, but the external position weakened as the higher oil import bill widened the current account deficit and ...

The Kenya Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aims to identify the impact of climate change on Kenya’s economy. Through robust and rigorous analyses that cover climate impact modeling across ...

The survey shows that nationwide 21.1% of Sierra Leone households have access to electricity via the national grid (20.5%) or mini-grids (0.6%) and 14.7% have off-grid access. Off-grid sources ...

The latest Taking Stock report shows that Vietnam’s economic growth slowed from 8% in 2022 to 3.7% in the first half of 2023. It forecasts a moderate growth of 4.7% in 2023, gradually accelerating to ...

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

The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Benin FY27–36 outlines the World Bank Group’s strategy to support economic transformation, resilience, and large-scale job creation aligned with Benin’s ...

Access to actionable information that outlines opportunities for nature-based solutions (NBS) investments at early stages of project design is essential for enabling the scale up of these solutions, ...

This paper investigates the impact of informal competition—defined as competition faced by formal firms from informal enterprises—on the firm-provided worker training among formal manufacturing small ...