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

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 …

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 …

's access to justice and justice outcomes. Another contribution of this study is to inform the World Bank-financed Justice … well as non-state justice institutions. State justice institutions are those which represent the central government and the … formal legal system. Non-state justice institutions include a range of both traditional and new community organizations, such …

The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of … Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and … rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women …