This report puts the creation of more productive and better-paying jobs at the center of country growth strategies, presenting new data revealing how patterns of jobs and production vary across different stages of the development process. It aims to help practitioners prioritize policy areas around three pillars: production, people, and places.
Category Winner, 2025 PROSE Awards: Business, Finance, and Management Category A guide for business leaders working to create socially conscious, sustainable companies - while pursuing profits Amid growing international concerns about income inequality, labor abuses, racial injustice, and disinformation online, Conscience Incorporated examines ......
Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics
Reproductive politics have become acutely urgent as we witness increased sexual and reproductive repression around the world. This reproductive repression is unfolding alongside widespread economic precarity, untenable costs of living, and demands for higher productivity. What feels like the emergence of a novel reproductive and economic dystopia, ......
World Order and the Transnational Field of Development
At a time of multiple challenges to the liberal international order, development has become one of the most contentious areas of world politics. Dominant powers have reduced their assistance and overtly fused development with national and security interests, while rising powers like China have become major donors promoting new models and norms. ......
World Order and the Transnational Field of Development
At a time of multiple challenges to the liberal international order, development has become one of the most contentious areas of world politics. Dominant powers have reduced their assistance and overtly fused development with national and security interests, while rising powers like China have become major donors promoting new models and norms. ......
Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics
Reproductive politics have become acutely urgent as we witness increased sexual and reproductive repression around the world. This reproductive repression is unfolding alongside widespread economic precarity, untenable costs of living, and demands for higher productivity. What feels like the emergence of a novel reproductive and economic dystopia, ......
How to Transform Agricultural Water Management to Feed 10 Billion People on a Livable Planet
Offers policy makers a new Water/Food Nexus framework and actionable strategies to boost food production, create millions of jobs, and build climate resilience, repurposing public spending and harnessing data, digital tools, and services to manage green and blue water sustainably.
Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus on emerging market and developing economies, on a semiannual basis (in January and June). Each edition includes analytical pieces on topical policy challenges faced by these economies.
The number of people in the world with a bank account or money service provider increased by 2 billion over the past decade. This phenomenon reflects what Tyler Girard calls the global financial inclusion agenda. This agenda emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and quickly became a prominent feature of global economic governance. The ......
