World Development Report 2025 argues that setting and enforcing standards across the economy, society, environment, and government are the heart of the development process. Standards can be used as a tool for development, quickening progress towards the sustainable development goals.
World Development Report 2025 argues that setting and enforcing standards across the economy, society, environment, and government are the heart of the development process. Standards can be used as a tool for development, quickening progress towards the sustainable development goals.
trading for development in the age of global value chains
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and ......
Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report takes on a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 Report, Learning to Realize Education's Promise, is the first ever devoted entirely to education. Now is an excellent time for it: education has long been critical for human welfare, but is even more so in a time of rapid ......
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealised model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday thinking actually works. This year's World Development Report argues that a more realistic account of decision-making and behaviour will make ......
By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, this book shines a light on how women's incentives or capacity to work are affected by the legal environment and provides a basis for improving regulation. The fourth edition in a series, this book examines laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees ......
Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project measuring the laws and regulations that restrict women's economic opportunity. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the work still to be done to ensure equality of opportunity for all.
Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, ......
