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Assesses the impact of the strong economic growth on employment. This study addresses the question of what Nigeria could do to increase the availability of quality jobs and reduce rising youth unemployment, and proposes a strategy to sustain and further accelerate Nigeria's growth performance and enhance quality of employment.

Countries in East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing a learning crisis when the COVID-19 pandemic made things worse. This report examines key factors affecting learning outcomes in the region, including teaching, the use of educational technologies (EdTech), and public spending on education.

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the most pronounced setback in the fight against global poverty since World War II.This report provides new data on the stark reversal of progress in the fight against global poverty. It explores how to optimize fiscal policy and identifies policies that can help correct course.

This report will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.

A longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the 123 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debt Reporting System (DRS).

This report will help policymakers to better design and implement targeted safety nets programs around the world.

This report is intended to provide conceptual and empirical learnings to help support the ongoing implementation of a continent-wide 'Digital Transformation for Africa' initiative that will span the next decade to 2030.

Uses the example of the Cerrejon coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia, to illustrate how strategic spatial planning can be used to integrate green growth considerations in economic diversification strategies for extractive-dependent regions.

This book examines the innovation landscape and its contribution to growth in Argentina. The authors argue for a growth model that capitalizes on human capital and research assets and that increases their alignment with firm-level capabilities and productivity growth.

To enable global trade to deliver for the poor, this report makes contributions to improve the ability of trade to deliver for the poor.

Outlines how to integrate water management and climate-change adaptation in the design, construction, and maintenance of roads. The guidelines describe how the negative impact of roads on the surrounding landscape can be turned around, and how roads can become instruments of beneficial water management and increased climate resilience.

A World Bank Group project which measures the laws and regulations restricting women's economic opportunities. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the work still to be done to ensure economic empowerment for all.

Identifies the impact of the Syrian conflict on economic and social outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. The publication combines a large number of data sources, statistical approaches, and a suite of economic models that isolate the specific impact of the Syrian conflict among numerous global and regional factors.

The Doha Development Agenda left open many contentious and important questions. This study analyses the most critical multilateral trade issues through the lens of development and suggests policy options more inclusive of developing countries and more conducive to poverty reduction.

International Debt Statistics (IDS) is a longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the 123 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debt Reporting System (DRS).

Productivity growth is the foundation of lasting income growth and poverty reduction: Poverty declined in EMDEs with the fastest pace of productivity growth 1981-2015, and rose in EMDEs with the lowest pace.

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2020 will provide global assessment on the coverage of economic inclusion programs that reach the extreme poor and vulnerable and help identify emerging lessons in how economic inclusion is being framed as part of overall development dialogue.

Provides an update on levels of global poverty and shared prosperity and explores which countries are on track to reduce extreme poverty to three percent by 2030 and beyond. The report explains why this challenge is so complex and what complementary strategies might be needed to make greater progress by 2030.