This year's report will present data for a second city for the 11 economies with more than 100 million inhabitants. These are Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, and the United States. It updates all indicators as of June 1, 2014, ranks economies on their overall 'ease of doing ......
Development policy discussions in Eurasia often become debates about how economies can be made more diversified. For a region that is resource-rich, this is to be expected. But Eurasian economies have in many ways become less diversifi ed during the past two decades. At the same time, people are much better off today than they were in the 1990s: ......
DCP4 works with low- and lower-middle-income countries to improve health outcomes by using economic evidence for better priority setting in healthcare. Volume 1 shares lessons from country led processes in a wide range of countries on creating essential health service packages.
Volume 2 - Investing in Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
Provides practical guidance for countries to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics amid fragmented global cooperation. Drawing on COVID-19 lessons, it identifies key priorities to build resilient systems that protect lives and economies through evidence-based national and regional actions.
Building Capabilities for Global Competition and Local Innovation
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) must act to prepare its large youth population for the digital age. This report advocates a dual-track strategy: ensuring universal digital literacy while also accelerating advanced digital skills development through coordinated action from governments, educational institutions, industry, and development organizations.
The Digital Progress and Trends Report presents latest progress on digitalization from both the supply and demand sides, with a focus on developing countries. It also highlights the emergence of digital public infrastructure, benefits and risks brought by artificial intelligence, and regulatory trends and implications for developing countries.
As part of education and public sector reforms, many countries are decentralizing the financing and administration of education services to regional, local, or school levels. This report explores what can be learned in decentralizing teacher management from international experience. In particular, it examines what has prompted governments to ......
El estudio cuestiona si, tras una decada de progresos notables en la reforma del comercio, America Latina y el Caribe realmente se integra en el mercado mundial, ofreciendo un rapido crecimiento prometedor y buenos empleos para sus trabajadores. Pues a pesar de la incidencia de la llamada en terminos generales "economia del conocimiento", ......
