Overall, a total of 26-38% of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean could be exposed to Generative AI. Generative AI could result in a productivity-enhancing transformation of 8-14% of jobs, with a ...

IDS provides comprehensive annual external debt stocks and flows data. Explore IDS data through the data tables below or for more data and information you can visit: ...

Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice ...

A new World Bank report considers the role of public finance to build, protect and utilize human capital as countries seek to recover from the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis and lay a foundation for ...

The Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey is a unique source of comparable economy-level data on how banks are regulated and supervised around the world. The most recent survey was started in 2017 ...

In 2005, India introduced a national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which offered up to 100 days of unskilled manual labor per year on ...

Beyond the ways in which payments, savings, and credit could help lower poverty rates, increase consumption, and enable more spending on education, health, and income-generating opportunities, ...

Gender; family economics; demography; political economy; fertility; family planning; sexual and reproductive health; women's social networks; son preference; sex ratio imbalances; women's work; ...

Somik V. Lall is Director of Strategy in the Office of the World Bank Group Chief Economist. Lall has held various leadership positions across the World Bank Group including Senior Adviser to the ...

While important gains in reducing global poverty have been made steadily since 1998, the pace of this reduction had slowed considerably in recent years. It was becoming increasingly unrealistic to ...

The Nepal Human Capital Review tells the story of unrealized talent and unrealized potential. At its core lies a powerful question: What would Nepal’s labor productivity look like if every child—no ...

What is Transit-Oriented Development? Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a planning and design strategy that consists in promoting urban development that is compact, mixed-use, pedestrian- and ...