Pathways to a green, resilient, and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic begin with global vaccination efforts. Accelerating vaccine equity can save lives and drive a faster and fairer trajectory for economies both rich and poor. According to the United Nations, low-income countries...

Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed the largest vaccination effort in history. Successful delivery of vaccines has been the global hope to end this public health crisis. Countries have relied on highly scalable, reliable, and efficient digital systems and...

"The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....

"There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than...

Este informe resume las principales tendencias relacionadas con los mercados laborales en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) en el período 2016-24, utilizando encuestas laborales armonizadas de la Base de Datos Laborales para América Latina y el Caribe (LABLAC) creada por el Banco Mundial y el...

Digital technology, applications, data, and information systems, as part of the ongoing transformation of health and health care, can help ensure universal and equitable access to affordable, people-centered, and integrated quality care, contributing to the goal of reaching Universal Health...

This report analyzes the digital technology adoption of Armenian firms based on the findings of the Armenia ICT Survey administered to over 1,900 firms in 2023 by the Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (ARMSTAT), with the technical assistance of the World Bank and support of the...

In the near term, achieving sustainability is one of humanity's most vital objectives. For sustainability to become a mindset and not merely a goal, it needs to encompass all fields, including digital. This white paper elaborates on the Saudi Government's steps toward digital sustainability. The...

Climate change is unfolding amid the greatest information andcommunication revolution in human history. From e-commerce andsocial media to smart manufacturing and precision farming, digitaltechnologies have become prevalent in all aspects of economic andsocial life. Digital technologies also...