Informal jobs are often bad jobs, unproductive, poorly paid, risky, and unprotected. Informal firms perform poorly than their formal counterparts in terms of firm productivity, growth, and job creation...
Firms and workers continue to be deeply affected by COVID-19, while the reach of policy support has been limited. Only one in four businesses surveyed across 60 countries has received any type of public...
Over the last years, the World Bank engagement on so called governance and anticorruption (GAC) global issues has had two main drivers. The first is the World Development Report (WDR) 2001, which demonstrates...
The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have articulated a vision for sustainable economic development that highlights the need to diversify the productive base to reduce dependence on the...