Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic processes that affect farmers in 101 countries. The study covers eight thematic areas: supplying seed, registering fertilizer, securing water, registering machinery, sustaining livestock, protecting plant health, trading food and ......
innovation, integration, agglomeration, and competition
A strong and widely acknowledged record of economic success3-including a three-and-a-half- fold increase in per capita income since 1994?places Rwanda among the world's fastest-growing economies. Traumatic memories of the 1994 genocide are gradually fading, as associations begin to take a more positive form-of a nation on the rise, powered by ......
The outlook for the global economy has darkened. Global financing conditions have tightened, industrial production has moderated, trade tensions have intensified, and some large emerging market and developing economies have experienced significant financial market stress. Faced with these headwinds, the recovery in emerging market and developing ......
The official source for the latest global estimates of poverty and shared prosperity. Each report also expands on a particular theme. As the world continues to make progress in eradicating poverty, efforts to monitor progress in reaching our goals will need to bring greater attention to ensuring that no one is left unaccounted for, that everyone ......
taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia
This report identifies and provides a detailed assessment of inequality between generations, workers, regions that are fueling perceptions of unfairness and eroding the social contract. It illustrates how current policies and institutions are not equipped to deal with these distributional tensions.
promoting economic growth and resilience in Europe and central Asia
Critical Connections examines how trade, investment, migration, and other linkages among countries are drivers of economic growth in the Europe and Central Asia region. The study breaks new ground by using a multidimensional approach that recognises how each connectivity channel for growth is likely to be affected by the strength of other ......
Impacts of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards
South Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change. Given that many of the poor live in areas prone to climactic shifts and in occupations that are highly climate-sensitive, such as agriculture and fisheries, future climate change could have significant implications for living standards. At the same time, the effect of climate change will vary ......
for productive cities in Latin America and the Caribbean
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanised regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western European cities. Closing this gap provides LAC ......
