Meeting the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals will require enormous infrastructure investment around the world …

statistics on the size of public procurement in economies around the world. While data are publicly available for High …-income economies, for the rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However, public procurement is as important in developing … 13.6 percent, as data from government sources or international development institutions indicate. International …

across the world. The survey identified expanded access to finance for firms and individuals and strengthened competition as …

Policies, institutions, and regulation (PIR) are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs … are higher than ever. PIR needs to be strengthened, adjusted, and scaled up to meet the needs of a changing world. The … World Bank has reviewed the experience of various countries with PIR and has documented its insights in a new report. This …

Following the Herat province (Western Afghanistan) earthquake sequence of October 7 to 15, 2023, the World Bank carried …

, Myanmar. Given the fragile and conflict-affected situation with limited access in Myanmar, the World Bank has adopted the …

new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends …Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a … force in global business, and the evolution of the international monetary system toward a multicurrency regime. Pursuit of …