This brief examines how power system resilience should be assessed and strengthened at the distribution network level, where electricity service reaches end users. The note argues that as countries ...

This document examines the country's transition to upper-middle-income status in 2025 following strong economic growth averaging 5.8 percent annually from 2021 to 2025. The report notes that growth ...

Protected areas cover 17% of the world’s land surface, yet credible evidence on their long-run economic and ecological ...

Public investment can be a powerful catalyst for private capital in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). Evidence shows that ...

Senegal is exposed to natural hazards including floods, droughts, coastal erosion, and land degradation which generate ...

Pursuing Poverty-Reducing Growth with more Impactful Fiscal Policy. Summer Edition, 2026. © World Bank. License: CC BY-NC ...

The report presents a comprehensive disaster risk assessment of school infrastructure in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Drawing on geospatial data, historical disaster records, education ...

This report is the first to examine tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures enabling the sector s economic and development power.

“The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives” underscored today’s unprecedented generation and flow of digital data and noted that much of the value remains untapped. To realize the ...

Vietnam has achieved great progress in both economic growth and poverty reduction; nevertheless, this economic growth is accompanied by an increase in resource use and other negative externalities, ...

Somalia’s natural and human geography is shaped by its harsh climate. Lying at the eastern extremity of the Sahel, Somalia has an arid to semi-arid climate. The country is in the midst of a prolonged ...

Gross domestic product (GDP) is widely recognized as an insufficient measure of economic progress and national success. Since GDP is nearly universally available and comparable across countries, it is ...