While populations in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to some of the highest levels of air pollution and its consequences, the majority of economics research on the topic is focused on high-income...
Port Community Systems (PCSs) are developed against the backdrop of technological advancements. The current framework of PCS technology architecture is best understood as a layered concept. The architectural...
Big Data can empower city leaders as they work to improve policy and infrastructure decision-making to increase economic impact and foster development. Big Data application has a significant regional imbalance...
The World Bank has published the Logistics Performance Index since 2007. The Logistics Performance Index used to be based exclusively on perception ratings from a global survey of logistics professionals...
While the travelers’ gender has not been a central consideration driving urban mobility planning, increasing evidence points to gender-differentiated mobility preferences and behaviors. This paper explores...
The innovations in big data analytics for development program was launched in 2014. The program worked toward two primary objectives: accelerate organizational capabilities in big data analytics for effective...
This paper presents evidence on the extent to which a set of real-time indicators tracked changes in gross domestic product across 142 countries in 2020. The real-time indicators include Google mobility...
To monitor progress toward global goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals, global statistics are needed. Yet cross-country data sets are rarely truly global, creating a trade-off for producers...
In the emerging collaborative intelligent transport strategic segment, vehicles will interact with everything. They will interact with one another and with diverse types of infrastructure within, and alongside...
The personal urban mobility strategic segment is concerned with transporting small groups of people over short distances in urban areas. This segment is undergoing a sea change as innovative technologies...
In advanced outcome-based healthcare segments, insurers are reimbursing providers on the outcomes they deliver for their patients. Outcome-based reimbursements create better incentives for health service...
This report presents a selection of projects from the Crisis Risk Finance Analytics program (CRFA), as part of the World Bank Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance work to apply innovative technology for risk...
Ratings of Building Higher Standards for the National Statistical System Project for Peru were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) high-frequency phone survey (HFPS) 2020 was conducted in 13 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador...