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.

This report provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including international, national and subnational initiatives. It also investigates ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nigeria faces a pivotal moment marked by weak growth and job creation, persistent structural rigidities, high poverty and ...

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 ...

Empirical evidence on the potential impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is mostly focused on high-income countries. In contrast, little is known about the role of this technology on ...

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 argues that broad reforms to current fiscal federalism arrangements are critical to addressing development ...