This collaborative international report stresses that climate action needs to be stepped up to meet global emission reduction targets while contributing to broader development goals. It outlines how international organisations can support the coordination of cross-border policies and scale up climate action by closing the transparency, implementation and ambition gaps.

This report proposes a path toward low-emission applications of digital technologies to help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, while simultaneously meeting their digital transformation goals.

Governments across the world make thousands of personnel management decisions, procure millions of goods and services, and execute billions of processes each day. This handbook presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on how to leverage data to make governments work better.

The World Bank’s annual World Development Reports (WDRs) are staples of the global community’s reservoir of knowledge and data about key development issues. The 2023 edition discusses migration, one of the world’s most important and pressing challenges.

Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an enormous shock to mortality, economies and daily life. This report estimates the impacts of the pandemic on the human capital of young children, school-age children and youth, and discusses the urgent actions needed to reverse the damage.