Swallowed by the Sea…Where coastal infrastructure and jobs meet climate change
Life is shifting fast for coastal communities in West Africa. In some areas, coastlines are eroding as much as 10 meters per year. Stronger storms and rising seas are wiping out homes, roads and...
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Path to sustainability: Applying sustainability principles to the World...
© World Bank The World Bank Group is committed to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable way. This applies to the way the Bank itself operates as well as how we design...
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World Bank Group Youth Summit 2016 winners build two computer labs in...
Photo: ROYA Resources of Young Afghans. This time last year, more than 400 excited youth filled the Preston Auditorium for the World Bank Group Youth Summit 2016: Rethinking Education for the New...
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Records from WB’s first loan to France digitized for the opening of the World...
Steel mill at Montataire. © World BankOn November 15, 2017, the World Bank Group opened the doors to its new Visitor Center located at 1776 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. (across the street...
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For social programs, social registries serve as a tool for inclusion
© Julia Pacheco/World Bank Celina Maria migrated from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro when she was just 17 and pregnant with twins, without completing her education and therefore have had difficulties finding...
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How behavioral science has helped me deal with development projects and my...
Children in kindergarten in rural Uzbekistan. © Matluba Mukhamedova/World Bank“Working on the World Development Report 2015 and subsequently in the eMBeD Unit mainstreaming the use of behavioral...
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Mentoring entrepreneurs: Finding out what works and what doesn’t
The Caribbean CIC Team after the Workshop kick-off. © Elaine TinsleyStart-ups in emerging markets are disadvantaged when it comes to accessing mentors and mentorship programs. The infoDev Climate...
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Data for policy: Building a culture of evidence-based policies to address...
Interviewers training for data collection for Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS) in Honduras. © Andrés Villaveces, CDC Good policy starts with good data, which is why the work of Together for...
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Raising awareness to root out violence against women and girls
A student leader in her school's anti-violence and coexistence project entering the school's courtyard © Charlotte Kesl / World Bank We live in a world where one in every three women has suffered...
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Cyber violence: Disrupting the intersection of technology and gender-based...
© Jeff Turner/Flickr Creative Commons Stories of sexting, sex tapes, online dating gone wrong and cyberbullying are all over social media and the news. However, these stories only begin to scratch the...
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Syrian refugee children’s smiles shine again in Istanbul
© World BankNothing is more satisfying than putting a smile on a child’s face. It is especially true when the child has been a victim of war. The viral image of the three-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan...
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An opportunity to reinvent our food system and unlock human capital too
A woman sorts seaweed after harvesting it in Rote, Indonesia. © Robert Jones What if we had the chance to reinvent the world’s food system and make local, more sustainable, nourishing and diverse food...
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Cyber violence: Disrupting the intersection of technology and gender-based...
© Jeff Turner/Flickr Creative Commons Stories of sexting, sex tapes, online dating gone wrong and cyberbullying are all over social media and the news. However, these stories only begin to scratch the...
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Can tackling childcare fix STEM’s gender diversity problem?
Girls attend school. Pakistan. © Caroline Suzman/World Bank Growing up in Pakistan, I often wondered why boys were expected to become doctors or engineers while girls, including me, were encouraged to...
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Good fences make good neighbors
© Center for Conservation and Research, Sri Lanka The members of the community in the Bulugolla village in Sri Lanka breathed a sigh of relief. It was the month of October and the rice harvest had gone...
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To transform agricultural extension, give youth a voice
© Neil Palmer/CIAT At the recent Africa Agriculture Extension week in Durban, there was a common refrain: "Demand for food in Africa is growing and expected to double by 2050." This is why we see...
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Africa’s partnership with the G-20: Compact with Africa in 2018
Expansion of the Azito Thermal Power Plant, in Côte d'Ivoire, will improve access to electricity for Ivoirians and help sustain the country's economic growth. © Cedric Favero/IFCEditor's Note: Below...
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What keeps the President of the World Bank up at night?
Residents of Kashadaha village visit the Kashadaha Anando school in Kashadaha village, Bangladesh. © Dominic Chavez/World BankThis year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting comes at a time of good...
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Why investors must take a chance in the world's most fragile countries
Microfinance in DRC. © Anna Koblanck/IFCFragility, conflict and violence affect more than two billion people across the globe. And while poverty on the whole is declining, that's not the case in...
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Edutainment changes the way we do development
Improving people’s lives is more than offering services. It requires people to be active participants in development, demanding services and products that add value to their lives and engaging in...
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