Despite a challenging external environment, Malaysia’s growth outperformed projections in the second half of 2025, lifting full-year growth to 5.2 percent. The government achieved a ...

This paper documents how foreign firms, inputs, and subsidies have shaped the development of Viet Nam’s solar panel industry. The analysis uses firmto-firm transaction data from Panjiva as well as ...

This report presents the World Bank Group’s Digital & AI Implementation Plan (FY26–30), which outlines a roadmap to expand ...

Quality education drives economic growth and equality. Saudi Arabia has achieved near-universal enrollment but still trails peers in learning quality, limiting workforce readiness ...

Non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become central instruments of trade policy, particularly in high-income countries and in highly regulated sectors. Many NTMs pursue legitimate objectives such as food ...

The Bank of Thailand kept its policy rate unchanged, emphasizing that the current supply-driven inflation does not yet ...

This paper analyzes the trade policies, including tariffs and non-tariff measures, of major markets for Ghana’s exports.

This paper uses labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97% of the world population in cross section. The database also includes time series ...

Education can be the key to ending poverty in a livable planet, but governments must act now to protect it. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as ...

This paper applies a comprehensive tax-benefit incidence analysis to estimate the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net ...

World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role of finance in the economic recovery from COVID-19. Based on an in-depth look at the consequences of the ...

The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise ...