Economics & Development

Morocco is a regional pioneer in gender-responsive budgeting (GRB), having embedded gender equality objectives into its public finance management since the early 2000s. This report examines Morocco's experience, benchmarks it against international practice in Rwanda, Austria, Canada, and Sweden, and offers recommendations to strengthen coordination, monitoring, and stakeholder engagement, helping GRB translate more fully into improved gender outcomes.

The 2026 Gabon Public Finance Review provides a comprehensive, evidence-based diagnosis of Gabon’s public finances. The report analyzes tax policy, public expenditures, governance aspects, extractive revenues, and social areas, presenting reform options that could help put the country on a sustainable fiscal path while improving outcomes for its people. Critical challenges lie ahead: addressing them will require strong efforts to improve fiscal policy and the management, transparency and accountability of public finances. Difficult choices will be necessary to balance investment and social needs with a sustainable fiscal path. Higher efficiency is central to solving this equation, as it can enable the country to collect revenues more efficiently and fairly and achieve better results through better spending. Reform opportunities are substantial and can contribute to making the most of Gabon’s resources.

Resumen de dos páginas con los resultados de PISA 2025 para Ecuador. Reúne los puntajes en lectura, matemática y ciencias, la proporción de estudiantes bajo el nivel mínimo de competencia, la evolución del desempeño en el tiempo y las diferencias por nivel socioeconómico y género. Cierra con seis prioridades para la educación secundaria, basadas en el reporte del Banco Mundial Donde los caminos se bifurcan. Fuente: OCDE (2026), PISA 2025 Results (Volume I).

Thailand has already urbanized. The task now is to make the urban system work. More than half of humanity already calls a city home, and the share is expected to reach around 68–70 percent by 2050. Thailand’s high-income ambition is, in this sense, an urban agenda: improving the efficiency, reliability, and resilience of its major city-regions so they can support modern services and advanced manufacturing, retain talent, and connect domestic firms to regional and global markets. The structural transition from rural to urban has already happened. What has not yet happened is the corresponding transition in urban performance: Thai cities have the scale and sectoral diversity of a middle-income urban system but translate these assets into productivity at rates closer to the lower bound of peer countries than to the frontier. This report establishes why cities are the arena in which Thailand’s high-income transition will succeed or fail, and introduces the evidence the rest of the report builds on.

Thailand has already urbanized. The task now is to make the urban system work. More than half of humanity already calls a city home, and the share is expected to reach around 68–70 percent by 2050. Thailand’s high-income ambition is, in this sense, an urban agenda: improving the efficiency, reliability, and resilience of its major city-regions so they can support modern services and advanced manufacturing, retain talent, and connect domestic firms to regional and global markets. The structural transition from rural to urban has already happened. What has not yet happened is the corresponding transition in urban performance: Thai cities have the scale and sectoral diversity of a middle-income urban system but translate these assets into productivity at rates closer to the lower bound of peer countries than to the frontier. This report establishes why cities are the arena in which Thailand’s high-income transition will succeed or fail, and introduces the evidence the rest of the report builds on.