This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of East Asia and the Pacific. Macroeconomic indicators such as population, gross domestic product and gross domestic...

Farewell to Single-Use Plastics in the Pacific is a World Bank-led series of analytics aimed at informing national and regional decision-making, policy formulation, and investment requirements focused on decreasing plastic imports, consumption, and plastic waste, and, consequently, on reducing...

This report contributes to sustainable recognition and formalization of all types of tenure (private, communal, and public) within forestlands by gathering emerging global knowledge and good practices on the topic. The aim is to guide decision-makers, practitioners, and other stakeholders...

People in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries have prospered over the last few decades because of the growth in productive jobs. Do industrial robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms threaten that development model? "Future Jobs" presents evidence that new technologies have...

The East Asia and Pacific region is helping the world decarbonize and is encouraging the domestic adoption of renewables. But there is an imbalance: while the region's innovation and investment improve global access to green technologies, its own emissions continue to grow because of the...

East Asia and the Pacific remains one of the most dynamic regions in the world. Yet, when measured against its own past performance and potential, the region has under-performed. Growth in most economies - and even output in several Pacific Island economies - has not returned to pre-pandemic...

The World Bank's Pacific Economic Update (PEU) highlights critical challenges facing 11 Pacific Island countries (PIC-11), including a global economic slowdown and trade policy uncertainty, set against the backdrop of vulnerabilities from limited diversification, natural hazards, and...

This paper uses results from leading biophysical models in an established macro-economic modeling framework to offer insights on potential economic consequences of climate change in Asia and the Pacific. The analysis covers shocks in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, energy demand, capital (from...