Despite multiple challenges, China’s economic growth has remained robust at 4.8 percent in the first three quarters of the year. But growth has moderated since the second quarter of 2024, weighed down ...

The Pandemic Fund’s Governing Board approved a grant envelope of $500 million for its third round of funding to help low- and ...

Too often, government leaders fail to adopt and implement policies that they know are necessary for sustained economic development. Political constraints can prevent leaders from following sound ...

Despite multiple challenges, China’s economic growth has remained robust at 4.8 percent in the first three quarters of the year. But growth has moderated since the second quarter of 2024, weighed down ...

Marcello Estevão is the Senior Advisor to the World Bank Group’s Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) and is responsible for leading work on macroeconomic and fiscal issues. In his ...

Over the past two and a half decades, Thailand has made great progress in expanding basic education, closing the gap in attendance between socio-economic groups through sustained efforts to expand ...

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means that all people can access quality essential health services, without having to suffer financial hardship to pay for health care. Despite some progress, at least ...

The Stallings classroom observation system, also known as the Stallings classroom snapshot, is a questionnaire and protocol for timed observations that produce quantitative data about interactions of ...

Ineffective policies can persist, while potentially effective policies are often not adopted. The World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law explores why some policies fail to achieve ...

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National accounts expenditures are essential for the International Comparison Program (ICP). First, they are used as weights to aggregate purchasing power parities (PPPs) through the various levels of ...