The World Bank has partnered with the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University to implement their diagnostic tool, the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment, designed to assess how taxation and public expenditures affect income inequality, poverty, and different economic groups. The...

Public spending plays a key role in the economic growth and development of most developing economies. This book analyzes revenues, policy, and administration of Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) in developing countries. It provides a broad landscape of practical examples, drawing from lessons...

Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand and the region continues to lag all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply...

Executive Summary -- Education and Labor-Market Outcomes in the Philippines -- Demand for Socioemotional Skills in the Philippine Labor Market -- Socioemotional Skills in the Philippine Labor Force -- Promoting the Development of Socioemotional Skills in the Philippines -- Conclusion and...

Introduction / Gabriela Inchauste and David G. Victor -- The Dominican Republic: from generalized to targeted subsidies / Andrea Gallina, Gabriela Inchauste, Pavel Isa, Catherine Lee, Miguel Sánchez -- Ghana: lessons learned, new strategies / Sheila Addo, Morgan Bazilian, Samuel Oguah --...

"Skills for a Modern Ukraine provides new evidence on the nature of skills that are valued in the labor market and proposes a set of policy options to improve the formatio and use of skills. Household and firm surveys and a data set of online job vacancies show that workers need a mix of...