Located within the Development Economics Vice Presidency, the Development Research Group is the World Bank's principal research department. With its cross-cutting expertise on a broad range of topics ...

Cognitive capital encompasses the collective cognitive resources of a population, including skills, knowledge, creativity and problem-solving capacity. It represents a distinct dimension of human ...

The Research Newsletter is a monthly summary of the latest research by the Development Research Group, the principal research department of the World Bank. Each edition is organized around a key topic ...

In 1985 a new college graduate named Michael Kremer traveled to Kenya hoping to learn more about a topic he had studied at Harvard: economic development in low-income countries. He didn’t anticipate ...

Comparative economic systems explore the characteristics, performance and governance of different economic orders, from market capitalism and ordoliberalism to centrally planned or hybrid models. This ...

In most of the countries we surveyed, there is widespread support for changing the economic system. In fact, in all but three nations, majorities say the economic system in their country needs major ...