Malaysia Doing Business 2019: Tougher at the top
Malaysia is now a top global performer in the Doing Business rankings. But the question that now remains is how the country can sustain its encouraging overall reform momentum. (Photo: bigstock/...
View ArticleWomen at work in East Asia Pacific: Solid progress but a long road ahead
East Asia Pacific’s (EAP) strong economic performance over the past few decades has significantly benefited and empowered women in the region, bringing better health and education and greater access...
View ArticleHow can Malaysia realize the potential of its human capital?
To boost productivity and go the next mile in its development path, Malaysia must improve its human capital through better learning and nutritional outcomes and social protection programs. (Photo:...
View ArticleE-commerce for poverty alleviation in rural China: from grassroots...
A young woman is selling products on-line. Photo: Xubei Luo/World Bank China’s rapid development of e-commerce has begun to reshape production and consumption patterns as well as change people’s daily...
View ArticleCan Islamic social finance be the key to end poverty and hunger?
As the world works toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, Islamic social finance provides new options to help mobilize these efforts, in particularly to end poverty and hunger. (Photo:...
View ArticleThe Force of Ideas
Our longstanding partnership with Malaysia: Former President of the World Bank, Robert S. Macnamara with former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak during a visit to Kuala Lumpur in 1978....
View ArticlePaving the way to sustainable heating in Mongolia
Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar’s ger areas. Credit: UBDHC, Erbar Agarjav In Ulaanbaatar (UB), the coldest capital city in the world, and one with the highest recorded levels of air pollution—surpassing...
View ArticleEquitable investment in human capital is vital for Thailand’s future
Thailand has transitioned from a low-income to an upper middle-income country in a single generation. Poverty has declined to 7.1 percent in 2015 – as measured by the international upper-middle income...
View ArticleA broader view of poverty in East Asia and Pacific
Economic progress in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) has greatly contributed to the global reduction of extreme poverty. The more prosperous countries in the region – China, Thailand, and Malaysia – now...
View ArticleCollaboratively transforming Thailand towards an innovative, inclusive and...
A crowded train stops at a station in Thailand to pick-up more passengers. In October 1950, the World Bank made a loan of $3 million to Thailand for the rehabilitation of the Royal State Railways. The...
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