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We bring together global knowledge and research to tackle key jobs challenges—spanning private investment and firm growth, labor mobility, social protection, and skills development. These insights are captured in our databases, publications, and toolkits, giving practitioners the evidence and guidance needed to design better jobs strategies.

Explore our collection of reports, toolkits, briefs, and working papers that share evidence, lessons, and practical guidance on creating more jobs around the world:

Philippines Country Growth and Jobs Report 2025
Gestión de los Impactos de la Crisis del COVID-19 en el Empleo Opciones de Política a Corto Plazo (Spanish)
Improving Smallholders’ Jobs through Agribusiness Linkages: Findings of the Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP)
Study of the Biscate Jobs Platform in Mozambique World Bank – Let’s Work Program Mozambique
Towards a Just Coal Transition: A Labor Market Perspective
Supporting Effective Jobs Lending at Scale: The Case of Uzbekistan Livestock Sector Development Project (LSDP)
at Scale: The Case of Uzbekistan
Livestock Sector Development
Project (LSDP)
Jobs and the Bangladesh Enhancing Digital Economy and Governance Project
Measuring the Jobs Effects of Footbridge Access Interventions:  An Application in Lesotho
Measuring the Effects of Social Protection Programs on Job Creation: An Application in Angola
Lessons Learned from Supporting Effective Jobs Lending at Scale (SEJLS)
Heading Towards 1.5ºC – Impacts on Labor Demand in Selected Countries
Piloting a Machine Learning-Based Job-Matching Algorithm: Summary of Results from Pomerania
Occupational Choice and Energy Access – Electricity For More And Better Jobs
Measuring Ex Ante Jobs Outcome of the Bangladesh Livestock and Dairy Development Project
Who Is Most Vulnerable to the Transition Away from Coal? Ruda Śląska Residents’ Preferences towards Jobs and Land Repurposing.
Jobs, Food and Greening: Exploring Implications of the Green Transition for Jobs in The Agri-Food System
Does Agricultural Intensification Pay?
Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills
Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Wielkopolska. (2022)
Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Silesia. (2022)
Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Lower Silesia. (2022)
A Tale of Two Countries: Labor Market Profiles of Youth in Urban and Rural Cameroon. (2022)
Improving Smallholders’ Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages : Findings of the Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP) (2022)
Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges. (2022)
Understanding and Predicting Job Losses Due to Covid-19: Empirical Evidence from Middle Income Countries. (2021)
Revisiting Labor Market Regulations in The Middle East and North Africa. (2021)
Migrants, Markets and Mayors Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights.(2021)
What was the Impact of Creating Better Jobs for more People in China’s Economic Transformation? What we know and Questions for Further Investigation
Opportunities for Youth and Women’s Participation in Ghana’s Labor-Intensive Public Works Program (2021)
How Did the Covid-19 Crisis Affect Different Types Of Workers In The Developing World? (2021)
The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys (2021)
Empirical Evidence on Firm Growth and Jobs in Developing Countries (2020)
Promoting Female Labor Force Participation (2020)
Structural Transformation and Labor Market Performance In Ghana
Just Coal Transition in Western Macedonia, Greece-Insights from the Labor Market
The Future of Work in Agriculture
Insights from Surveys on Business and Enterprises in South Sudan: Jobs, Recovery, and Peacebuilding in Urban South Sudan – Technical Report IV.(2020)
Reviving Markets And Market-Linked Agriculture In South Sudan: Jobs, Recovery, And Peacebuilding In Urban South Sudan – Technical Report III(2020)
The Macroeconomic Environment for Jobs in South Sudan: Jobs, Recovery, and Peacebuilding in Urban South Sudan – Technical Report II. (2020)
Job Outcomes in the Towns of South Sudan: Jobs, Recovery, and Peacebuilding in Urban South Sudan – Technical Report I. (2020)
Managing the Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis : Policy Options for Relief and Restructuring (Spanish)
Olive Oil, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, and Tomatoes in North-West Tunisia : A Roadmap to Developing Competitive Advantage on Strategic Markets (2020)
Value Chain Development for Jobs in Lagging Regions – Let’s Work Program in Tunisia : Overview of the Approach, Impact, and Findings (2020)
Olive Oil in the North-West of Tunisia : Findings from a Value Chain and Jobs Survey (2020)
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the North-West of Tunisia : Findings from a Value Chain and Jobs Survey (2020)
Nepal : A Review of Jobs Portfolio (2020)
Jobs Interventions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (2020)
Market study to understand job growth potential in SMEs in Nepal(2020)
Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts (2020)
Measuring Jobs-Linked Extrenalities in Private Investment Projects a Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Perspective (2020)
The Future of Work in Agriculture : Some Reflections
Inclusive Value Chains to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa
Economic Integration into Host Communities in Times of Crisis
Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Colombia – Jobs Diagnostic
Dominican Republic – Jobs Diagnostic
Guatemala – Jobs Diagnostic
Mozambique – Jobs Diagnostic
El Salvador – Jobs Diagnostic
Nicaragua Jobs Diagnostic
Sri Lanka Jobs Diagnostic
Theoretical Underpinnings of Jobs Diagnostics
Uganda : Jobs Strategy for Inclusive Growth
Honduras Jobs Diagnostic (2020)
Pakistan Jobs Diagnostic : Promoting Access to Quality Jobs for All (English)
Shaping Better Jobs Policies Through Measurement: Findings from a Pilot Program to Estimate Indirect Jobs
Togo Jobs Diagnostic: Confronting Challenges and Creating Opportunities for More Good Quality Jobs for All
Protecting Workers, Firms, and Worker-Firm Attachment During COVID-19: Economic Considerations for the Assessment of Policy Measures
How did Countries Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis? Emerging Patterns on Jobs‑Related Policies
Building Capacity to Evaluate Value Chain Development for Job Creation : A Case Study from Tunisia (2021)
JobsWatch COVID-19 Brief: Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
Jobs Interventions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Addressing Employment Obstacles for Young Syrian Refugee Women(2020)
Supporting Jobs in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Situations – Jobs Note
Jobs Interventions for Young Women in the Digital Economy – Jobs Note
Agriculture, Jobs and Value Chains in Africa – Jobs Note
Adapting Jobs Policies and Programs in the Face of Accelerated Technological Change – Jobs Note
Adapting Skills Training to Address Constraints to Women’s Participation
Global Perspective on Coal Jobs and Managing Labor Transition out of Coal : Key Issues and Policy Responses
Jobs Undone: Reshaping the Role of Governments toward Markets and Workers in the Middle East and North Africa
Defining Informality vs Mitigating its Negative Effects
Guide to Job-Seeker Skills Certificate Programme
Economic Inclusion for the Poorest and COVID-19: Adaptation and Early Priorities for Medium- and Longer-Term Recovery
Design and Implementation Practices for Wage Subsidies during COVID-19 Draft Note
Addressing gender gaps through DPOs in Albania
Agricultural Employment Support for Refugees and Turkish Citizens Through Enhanced Market Linkages: Theory of Change
Agricultural Employment Support for Refugees and Turkish Citizens Through Enhanced Market Linkages: Economic Analysis
Identifying the Constraints Among Syrian Refugee Workers in Accessing Better Employment Opportunities in and Outside Agriculture
Uganda - Investment in Forests
and Protected Areas for ClimateSmart Development Project
The Informal Agricultural Labor Market and the Obstacles to Formalization in Turkey’s Bursa Province
Developing a Matching Algorithm for Agricultural Labor Markets: A Technical Note
Knowledge4Jobs: Creating More, Better and Inclusive Jobs
Knowledge4Jobs: Gender Gaps In Employment
Knowledge4Jobs: The Future Of Work In Agriculture
Knowledge4Jobs: Creating More, Better and Inclusive Jobs
Knowledge4Jobs: Jobs and Spatial Transformation
Knowledge4Jobs | March 2023 | Increasing Successful Matches in the Labor Market
Real time Labor Market Data- The New Frontier?
Towards Diagnosing Job Challenges in the Green Transition
Jobs Group Newsletter | June 2023
Knowledge4Jobs | September 2023 | Working Without Borders: How the Online Gig Economy is Transforming the Nature of Work
Knowledge4Jobs | October 2023 | The Link Between Productivity Jobs and Growth
Knowledge4Jobs Newsletter | November 2023 | Climate Change, Climate Policy and Jobs
Jobs Group Newsletter | December 2023
Knowledge4Jobs Newsletter | February 2024 | Interventions to Improve Entrepreneurship in LMICS
Knowledge4Jobs Newsletter | March 2024 | The Age of AI, Jobs and Inequality
Jobs Newsletter, March 2024
Economic integration into host communities in times of crisis
Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Tajikistan - Afghanistan Border: Cross Border Markets Economic and Infrastructure Gap Analysis
Key Challenges and Recommendations for Augmenting the Monitoring and Evaluation systems for the Ghana Skills Development Fund (GSDF)
Tajikistan Report on Review and Analysis of the Existing Condition of Bathrooms in Guesthouses of Khatlon Region and GBAO
Cross-Border Trade Application
Recommendation Report for Tourism Sector Job Retention and Post-Pandemic Expansion
UZBEKISTAN: Livestock Sector Development Project Job Diagnostic
Policy Based Lending: Inclusion and Equity
List of References - Africa’s Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
Managing the Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis Policy Options for the Short Term
Assessing the impact and policy responses in support of private-sector firms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Jobs Interventions for Young Women in the Digital Economy – Full Bibliography
Agriculture, Jobs and Value Chains in Africa – Full Bibliography
Adapting Jobs Policies and Programs in the Face of Accelerated Technological Change – Full Bibliography
Jobs Interventions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons – Full Bibliography
Supporting Jobs in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Situations – Full Bibliography
Bibliography for Jobs Solutions Note: Adapting Skills Training to Reflect Constraints to Women's Participation