Despite a challenging external environment, Malaysia’s growth outperformed projections in the second half of 2025, lifting full-year growth to 5.2 percent. The government achieved a ...

This paper documents how foreign firms, inputs, and subsidies have shaped the development of Viet Nam’s solar panel industry. The analysis uses firmto-firm transaction data from Panjiva as well as ...

This report presents the World Bank Group’s Digital & AI Implementation Plan (FY26–30), which outlines a roadmap to expand ...

Quality education drives economic growth and equality. Saudi Arabia has achieved near-universal enrollment but still trails peers in learning quality, limiting workforce readiness ...

Non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become central instruments of trade policy, particularly in high-income countries and in highly regulated sectors. Many NTMs pursue legitimate objectives such as food ...

India maintained strong growth momentum despite global headwinds, including geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Real GDP growth accelerated to 7.8% in FY26, up from 7.2% the prior year, driven ...

The Bank of Thailand kept its policy rate unchanged, emphasizing that the current supply-driven inflation does not yet ...

This paper analyzes the trade policies, including tariffs and non-tariff measures, of major markets for Ghana’s exports.

This paper uses labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97% of the world population in cross section. The database also includes time series ...

China’s export performance is characterized by two striking features: a steady rise in export sophistication and the continued prominence of less sophisticated products. In this paper we propose the ...

Education can be the key to ending poverty in a livable planet, but governments must act now to protect it. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as ...

This paper applies a comprehensive tax-benefit incidence analysis to estimate the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net ...