Well-designed labor market policies will play an even more critical role during the post-pandemic period. To fill the gaps, this research collected and analyzed novel data on selected unemployment benefits and active labor market policies in 191 countries in 2019 and 2020.
Access to finance is a crucial component of economic development. This column studies the effects of Brazil’s ‘Banks for All’ programme, which targeted underbanked cities not served by government-owned banks. It finds a strong positive effect of the policy on the number of bank branches and on the overall amount of credit and deposits, particularly for cities located in