This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13 short, nontechnical briefing notes prepared in response to this … request, summarizing a selection of major insights in development economics in the past decade. The notes synthesize evidence …

Malawi-based development practitioners. The paper finds a plethora of interventions that, merely by virtue of appearing to be …

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although … the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross … Development Goal-related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to …