This study attempts to relate the policy and good practice literature on urban and suburban passenger rail, much of which originates from high- or middle-income countries to the context of ...

This study examines how diaspora communities affect foreign direct investment flowing into Economic Community of West African ...

Over the past decade, Bulgaria has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and expanding prosperity. Millions of ...

This report assesses the socioeconomic impacts of Sudan’s conflict using data from the Sudan Welfare Monitoring Survey (SWMS) ...

The Managing Markets for Health brief series explores how governments can effectively engage and steward the private health sector within mixed health systems to advance UHC and support the WBG’s goal ...

This report introduces the Bangkok Blueprint for Fraud-Resilient Financial Services, launched during the 2026 IMF–WBG Annual ...

Climate change and climate mitigation policies affect poverty and inequality in Bulgaria through multiple, reinforcing channels, and their impacts fall unevenly across the income distribution. Poor ...

This report presents baseline findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating such a program for Syrian refugees and ...

This report examines the digitalization of government-to-person (G2P) social assistance payments across 383 programs in 123 countries. It analyzes payment methods, payment service providers, account ...

The Managing Markets for Health brief series explores how governments can effectively engage and steward the private health sector within mixed health systems to advance UHC and support the WBG’s goal ...

This study, carried out by the World Bank (WB) in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Caribbean ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) entered 2026 with relatively strong macroeconomic buffers, but economic growth has been losing momentum and remains below the pace needed to achieve the ...