Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte, Karine Marazyan, Income Shocks, Bride Price, and Child Marriage in Turkey, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages 125–145, ...

Ama Baafra Abeberese, Ritam Chaurey, Radhika Menon, Place-Based Policies and Migration: Evidence from India, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages 82–104, ...

Yoonyoung Cho, Teresa Molina, The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages ...

Can employer-side wage subsidies increase hiring women in low female labor force participation settings? This paper tests this using a randomized experiment with 1,227 Pakistani firms on a national ...

The purpose of this note is to help mainstream fiscal multipliers in PFRs. It aims to provide guidance for estimating fiscal ...

With these Cameroon economic updates, the World Bank is pursuing a program of short and frequent reports analyzing the ...

This paper studies how improvements in regulatory information systems affect credit allocation in rural financial markets. In 2021, the Central Bank of Brazil introduced major enhancements to the ...

The Country Opinion Survey in Côte d'Ivoire assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Côte d'Ivoire perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback ...

This report is based on an extensive energy survey commissioned by the World Bank and carried out across Pakistan during 2021-2022. The survey has enabled a comprehensive analysis of electricity ...

The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) is for all people to receive the quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without incurring financial hardship. UHC covers the full ...

In many low-income countries, agricultural extension services are a key channel for improving farming practices and nutrition outcomes, yet women farmers often have limited direct access to them. This ...

This paper examines how shifts in investor demand influence firm financing and investment decisions. For identification, the paper exploits a large-scale MSCI methodo logical reform that mechanically ...