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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report presents a systematic analysis of costs and financing for large-scale learning assessments in five Sub-Saharan African countries (Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mada ...

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Persistent structural constraints limited institutional capacity, and mounting pressures on capital and social spending underscore the need for deeper reforms to strengthen resource allocation and ...