World Bank Publications
Effective primary school teachers are vital to building human capital and economic growth. This global study examines how initial teacher education is delivered worldwide and offers five guiding pr...
World Development Report 2025: Standards for Development provides the most comprehensive assessment of the global landscape of standards today and how they can be used to accelerate economic develo...
In East Asia and Pacific, longer lives are overshadowed by rising noncommunicable diseases that erode productivity and raise costs. Outdated primary health care (PHC) systems limit prevention and q...
Explore our latest World Bank publication "Delivering Hope in Fragile Times: The Story of the Sudan Family Support Program" by Suleiman Namara, Endeshaw Tadesse, Alvin Etang Ndip, Kevwe Sylvester P...
East Asia is helping the rest of the world decarbonize and encouraging the domestic adoption of renewable energy. But there is an imbalance: Even as the region’s innovation and investment improve g...
The most productive firms in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) are falling further behind global leaders, especially in the digital-intensive sectors that drive innovation. Synchronized reforms to improv...
New technologies have boosted employment in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries, with productivity and scale gains outweighing automation's labor-displacing effect. However, the benefits have bee...
Services are a new force for innovation, trade, and growth in East Asia and Pacific, as in other parts of the world. The dramatic diffusion of digital technologies and partial policy reforms in ser...
Building on the foundation of the three previous editions of Disease Control Priorities (DCP), published from 1993 through 2019, this new fourth edition, DCP4, uses a country-specific approach base...
Building on the foundation of the three previous editions of Disease Control Priorities (DCP), published from 1993 through 2019, this new fourth edition, DCP4, uses a country-specific approach base...
"The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives" underscored today’s unprecedented generation and flow of digital data and noted that much of the value remains untapped. To realize the en...
Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emi...
Services are a new force for innovation, trade, and growth in East Asia and Pacific. The dramatic diffusion of digital technologies and partial policy reforms in services—from finance, communicatio...
In 2017, the Investment Framework for Nutrition set the stage for transformative nutrition investments, culminating in strong donor and country commitments at the 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N...
Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emi...
Explore our latest World Bank publication "21st-Century Africa: Governance and Growth" by Chorching Goh — Now available for free download and in print.
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Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emi...
Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emi...
Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emi...
Strong capital markets drive job creation, productivity, and economic growth.
Delve into the findings of the new book Financing Firm Growth: The Role of Capital Markets in Low- and Middle-Income C...