The Government of Bangladesh is fully committed to global climate-change advocacy and action, having already invested heavily in adaptation measures and policies. In recent decades, the government ...

Does stronger community monitoring increase the effectiveness of local development projects? We conduct a randomized ...

Given so, countries are exploring Asset Recycling as a mechanism to unlock capital invested in existing infrastructure assets ...

This policy note highlights the important benefits that digital government can bring to a country’s government and people.

The efficiency and quality of the business regulatory environment can vary substantially across different locations within a ...

This study, requested by the Government of Uzbekistan, aims to support public transport reform. The objective is to develop a ...

The Country Opinion Survey in Angola assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Angola perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national ...

International shipping accounts for nearly three percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If no further action is taken, these emissions are set to grow significantly. Apart from reducing emissions ...

This Railway Reform Toolkit aims to provide an easy-to-use resource on the rail industry and to provide an experience-based set of best practices to aid in the planning and execution of railway ...

The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side ...

The overall objective of the Zambezi River Multi-Sector Investment Opportunity Analysis (MSIOA) is to illustrate the benefits of cooperation among the riparian countries in the ZRB through a multi ...

Myanmar is a country in transition and faces the following main challenges: a) reducing the incidence of poverty and improving human development outcomes, particularly for the poor and vulnerable; ...