This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) sets out the World Bank Group’s plans for addressing the country’s development priorities as identified in the 2019 Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) and Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation as well as supporting Rwanda’s response to...

This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) analyzes the economic and social context of Gabon and what it can do today to end extreme poverty and enhance shared prosperity. It also identifies priority routes to faster progress. Two critical pathways to sustained inclusive growth and shared...

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF), which covers FY20–FY23, seeks to accompany Myanmar through a challenging and complex transition at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is creating unprecedented uncertainty and vulnerability globally. This CPF reflects the WBG’s commitment to maintain...

This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) takes stock of The Gambia’s development trends and reflects on constraints and opportunities going forward. It explores four fundamental questions: What explains low and volatile growth rates, and which bottlenecks need to be addressed? What are the...

Bhutan is a small, landlocked country deep in the eastern Himalayas between India and China. Over a horizontal distance of just 100-150 km, the elevation rises from about 150 meters above sea level in the south to over 7,000 meters in the north. The population of about 735,0001 is scattered...

A new tool, SABER-teachers, aims to help fill this gap by collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating comprehensive information on teacher policies in primary and secondary education systems around the world. SABER-Teachers is a core component of SABER (Systems Approach for Better...

In 2001, FYR Macedonia embarked on a new education policy agenda. One of the goals of this agenda was to improve the country’s student assessment system. In order to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of its existing assessment system, FYR Macedonia decided to...

Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday thinking actually works. This year’s World Development Report argues that a more...

The January 2016 edition of Global Economic Prospects discusses current global and regional economic developments and prospects, analyzing key challenges and opportunities confronting developing countries. This volume addresses, among other topics, spillovers from large emerging markets and...

International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2016 (formerly Global Development Finance) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 125 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). It also includes tables of...