The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) is for all people to receive the quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without incurring financial hardship. UHC covers the full ...

This paper provides the first comprehensive, cross-country evidence on the wage returns to digital skills, using more than 67 million job postings from 29 countries between 2021 and 2024. The paper ...

This paper examines how shifts in investor demand influence firm financing and investment decisions. For identification, the paper exploits a large-scale MSCI methodo logical reform that mechanically ...

This paper examines the impact of improvements in digital infrastructure on labor market performance, focusing on employment and productivity, measured by average wages. The empirical setting exploits ...

This report brings new evidence on how human capital is formed, showing that homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces play a ...

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

This study explores public opinion for reducing fossil fuel subsidies in Angola, identifies strategies that can shift public ...

The HCI+ measures how effectively a country builds human capital, tracking the likelihood that children today will grow into ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, February 9, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $50 million in financing to boost Nepal’s digital public infrastructure and digitize public services, ...

This paper makes an initial attempt to account for differences in the technologies used by women- and men-run businesses, that is, technological “heterogeneity,” for better understanding productivity ...