More adults than ever in low- and middle-income countries now have bank or other financial accounts, leading to a rise in formal saving, according to the World Bank Group’s Global Findex 2025 report.

By combining two complementary approaches, the gravity model and the Bartik model, this paper estimates: (i) the ...

World Development Report 2022: FINANCE for an Equitable RecoveryToday’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And ...

Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women ...

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 ...

This paper highlights the successes and challenges of international mental health innovations, providing a roadmap for ...

Estimating the macroeconomic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation options is a topic of intense research.

The World Bank's annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Report has been a guide for countries, ...