This World Bank report examines the urgent need to scale up climate adaptation finance in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), a region increasingly exposed to severe climate risks such as droughts, floods, ...

Drawing on qualitative data from 11 key informants and 75 small-scale firm owners in South Africa’s townships, this paper identifies five factors shaping micro-entrepreneurial success. First, ...

Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger are home to nearly 13 million adolescent girls aged 10–19 who face some of the steepest ...

This paper studies the impact of rising heat on labor markets across Europe by combining geocoded district-level, ...

This policy note is intended to inform (i) data-driven decisions on program quotas and study relevance by the Ministry of Education and Science, (ii) the Government’s upcoming Higher Education ...

This report delivers Myanmar’s first thorough assessment of the agrifood processing sector in over 10 years, providing an empirical foundation for policy on private sector development. Based on a ...

Gabon has a unique opportunity to drive inclusive growth, reduce poverty, and build a resilient post-oil economy, with ...

Macroeconomic fundamentals have continued to improve in 2025 and into 2026, though the Middle East conflict is creating mixed but largely manageable macroeconomic effects for Nigeria. Translating ...

The Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) provides a global benchmark of how container ports perform in handling vessel calls. Developed jointly by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, ...

Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in ...

Multidimensional auctions are a natural and practical solution when auctioneers pursue more than one objective in their public-private-partnership transactions. However, it is difficult to achieve ...

This brief explores the role of women entrepreneurs in job creation, focusing on how women‑owned firms contribute to women’s employment. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) ...