Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa analyzes the 15 main ports in East and Southern Africa (ESA) to assess whether their proposed capacity enhancements are justified by ...

This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid in 1994, with a focus on the period between 2006 and 2015. The main conclusions ...

Business Ready (B-READY) is a new World Bank Group corporate flagship report that evaluates the business and investment climate worldwide. It replaces and improves upon the Doing Business project.

Tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are significant and increasing contributors to premature mortality and morbidity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Health taxes ...

International river basins will likely face higher hydrologic variability due to climate change. Increased floods and droughts would have economic and political consequences. Riparians of ...

Azerbaijan’s economy slowed sharply in 2025, with GDP growth declining to 1.4 percent due to contraction in the hydrocarbon ...

Fast payment systems - platforms that settle money transfers within seconds, around the clock - are spreading rapidly across ...

This Economic Update argues that Botswana needs to shift its economic model. While this message has been repeated many times ...

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The Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) provides a global benchmark of how container ports perform in handling vessel calls. Developed jointly by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, ...

This book is an outcome of a series of study visits to Singapore for African policy makers initiated by Jee-Peng Tan in 2005 with support from Tommy Koh in Singapore and Birger Fredriksen, Yaw Ansu, ...

The aim of this publication is to provide an international framework (the “Framework”) with the minimum requirements and performance expectations as to how an industrial park can become an ...