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.
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.
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.
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.
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: ......
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 ......
Doing Business 2016 is the 13th publication in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies. This year the publication addresses regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity including: Starting a business, Dealing with construction permits, Getting electricity, Registering property, Getting credit, ......
Fourteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2017 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: Starting a business; Dealing with construction permits; Getting electricity; Registering property; Getting credit; Protecting minority investors; Paying ......
