With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …

, prices for both mobile communications and fixed broadband are higher in the DR than in peer countries. Following the World … having a residual market share in the fixed and internet markets. While market concentration is common in the …

alleviation. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …

that increases its share of high-value activities, it is critical that it use resources more efficiently. Chongqing …

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which … safety and doing what they can to prevent students' learning loss using remote learning. At the same time, countries need to …

The Lao PDR sits at the intersection of four critical ecoregions and is home to some of the world's biologically … protected areas, and expansion of agriculture and settlements. This World Bank report outlines key challenges and priority …

This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …