The World Bank launched the Human Capital Index (HCI) to highlight the importance of investments in human capital and to ...

The Lao PDR CCDR analyzes how Lao PDR can achieve sustainable development while addressing climate change. Lao PDR ...

The Mauritius Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) provides analysis and recommendations on how Mauritius can achieve sustained development while responding to climate change. Mauritius is ...

The International Development Association (IDA) is the largest source of long-term concessional financing for the world’s poorest countries. Since 1960, IDA has delivered more than US$600 billion in ...

This paper examines whether small low- and middle-income countries offer excess returns and diversification benefits to global investors. Using monthly equity price data from 2015–25, the study pools ...

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the performance of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) assistance to the Republic of ...

Solomon Islands has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the strength of its workforce development (WfD) policies and ...

The forum has led to more than five distinct insolvency reforms that have helped strengthen countries' credit environments. By leveraging their joint capacities, IFC and the World Bank have helped ...

Correspondent banking services are essential to enabling companies and individuals to transact internationally and make cross-border payments. Recently there have been indications that certain ...

Over the last two decades, Moldova has achieved major development results: with average annual growth of 4.6 percent since 2000, poverty has decreased dramatically, and the growth has also ...

The objective of the assessment is to take stock of the performance of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR’s) public finance management (PFM) system, assess progress since the 2018 Public ...

Viet Nam has embarked on a major reform push, the first since the Doi Moi wave in the mid-1980s. In addition to significant ...