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This report promotes a more inclusive development and COVID recovery by better understanding how policies can increase productivity and reduce vulnerability in the informal sector.

Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank Group project which measures the laws and regulations restricting women's economic opportunities. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the work still to be done to ensure economic empowerment for all.

This report estimates the global, regional, and national costs of health damage from exposure to PM2.5 ambient and household air pollution in 2019. While recognizing the various costs of air pollution to society, this report focuses on the cost of morbidity and premature death from air pollution, the world's leading environmental health risk.

Global Economic Prospects, January 2022

Human Capital 2020: Index Update and Insights from Service Delivery Indicators

Documents the productivity trends in Sub-Saharan Africa at three different dimensions: the aggregate level, the sectoral level, and the establishment level. It characterizes the evolution of productivity in the region vis-a-vis other countries and regions as well as country groups in Africa classified by their degree of natural resource abundance.

Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 edition - Learning to Realize Education's Promise - is the first devoted entirely to education.

Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 edition - LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise - is the first ever devoted entirely to education.

This book seeks to articulate the World Bank's Rural Strategy on agriculture to the wider development community. It provides decision makers with the rationale for supporting agriculture by presenting the lessons learned on the policies, institutions, and priority investments that can sustain pro-poor agricultural growth.

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank's annual flagship publication. Each year the WDR seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes, and sets out actions the development community can take to fight poverty in all its dimensions.