This section provides an update on the WBG Guarantee Platform (WBG-GP) implementation, information on the program delivery outlook, and progress on MIGA’s Decentralization Strategy.
Aligned with the launch...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 203532Date: July 11, 2025Author:
World Bank
Malawi’s economy is in a deep and protracted crisis marked by elevated inflation, declining living standards, and high rates of food insecurity. Since 2020, Malawi’s economy has experienced a deep and...
Type: ReportReport#: 203132Date: July 11, 2025Author:
Arrigo, Marcello ;
Cardona, Lina Marcela ;
Chilima, Efrem Zephnath ;
Engel, Jakob ;
McKenna, Miles ;
Mussa, Anwar ;
Njati Banda, Innocent ;
Soininen, Krista Alexandra
One defining feature of financial crises, evident in U.S. and international data, is asymmetric bank distress—concentrated losses on a subset of banks. This paper proposes a model in which shocks to borrowers’...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11170Date: July 10, 2025Author:
Kim, Dohan
The Blue Social Protection Handbook provides practitioners working on fisheries or social protection with practical knowledge on leveraging social protection and jobs interventions to support productive...
Type: BriefReport#: 203120Date: July 10, 2025Author:
World Bank
Migration of Bhutanese workers to Australia has sparked intense public debate and garnered media attention in recent years. The profile of migrants, largely composed of civil servants from key sectors,...
The first quarter of the twenty-first century has been transformative for emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). These economies now account for about 45 percent of global GDP, up from about...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11169Date: July 10, 2025Author:
Balatti Mozzanica, Mirco ;
Kose, Ayhan ;
Mckinnon, Kate Frances ;
Palombo, Edoardo ;
Sugawara, Naotaka ;
Verduzco Bustos, Guillermo ;
Vorisek, Dana
Between 2019 and 2022, Madagascar experienced an acute drought that triggered a chronic food security crisis, drawing justified attention to its nutritional and poverty-related impacts. However, local...
Type: ReportReport#: 203110Date: July 10, 2025Author:
Harivola, Stella ;
Iacovelli, Valentina ;
Rakotoarindrasata, Mina ;
Randrianasolorivo, Jean de Dieu ;
Rivelli, Francesca
This paper presents a comprehensive strategic framework for integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into revenue administrations. The framework addresses the challenges of implementing AI without a structured...
Type: ReportReport#: 203119Date: July 10, 2025Author:
Calderón, Vladimir ;
Ghaleb, Joey Raymond ;
Junquera-Varela, Raul Felix ;
Krsul, Ivan ;
Lucas, Cristian
The Thailand Economic Monitor (TEM) reports on key developments in Thailand’s economy over the past six months, situates these changes in the context of global trends and Thailand’s longer-term economic...
Type: ReportReport#: 202772Date: July 10, 2025Author:
World Bank
Central Asia is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, especially earthquakes, floods, and landslides. Furthermore, in the last two decades, climate change has raised the frequency and intensity of natural...
Type: ReportReport#: 203101Date: July 9, 2025Author:
Fraser, Stuart ;
Gonzalez, Alejandro ;
Huang, Chyi-Yun ;
Jukusheva, Tolkun ;
McGree, Daniel Anthony ;
Melecky, Martin ;
Nizamitdin, Madina ;
Novikova, Marina ;
Pozniak, Charles ;
Sanginov, Faridun ;
Skalon, Tatiana ;
Sultanov, Oraz ;
Takeuchi, Ko ;
Temurov, Mukim
This study explores the short-term welfare and distributive effects of selected fuel tax and subsidy reforms in six countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region that are aimed at promoting...
Type: ReportReport#: 203097Date: July 9, 2025Author:
World Bank
Green accountability means that all members of civil society have the means and ability to participate and influence decisions that shape how climate finance is spent, managed and monitored in their country....
Type: ReportReport#: 203083Date: July 9, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper investigates the impact of conflicts on flood-affected households in Nigeria, utilizing a balanced panel dataset derived from the Living Standards Measurement Survey data collected in 2012,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11167Date: July 8, 2025Author:
Ben Bih, Karima ;
Jafino, Bramka Arga ;
Desjonqueres, Chloe Genevieve Helene ;
Masson, Solene
This paper examines the compounded effects of conflict on household recovery following disasters, using Nigeria as a case study. The analysis employs the “Unbreakable” microsimulation model to analyze...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11168Date: July 8, 2025Author:
Ben Bih, Karima ;
Jafino, Bramka Arga ;
Desjonqueres, Chloe Genevieve Helene ;
Sirenko, Mikhail
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