Machine Learning Joins the Housing Revolution
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries wher...
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AFRONOMICS: What will it take to accelerate poverty reduction in Africa?
Despite the incredible progress that so many African countries have made, poverty remains a defining part of the narrative around Africa. Wh...
AFRONOMICS: The Future of Work in Africa, Part 2: The Role of Social Protection
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old”...
AFRONOMICS: The Future of Work in Africa, Part 1: Can digital technologies really work for all?
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old”...
Smarter Subsidies
Doing More With Less – Smarter Subsidies for Water Supply and Sanitation shows that most existing water supply and sanitation subsidies are...
From Unknown To Urgency
Quality: Unknown — The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath...
AFRONOMICS: Analyzing Inequality in Africa
Discussions on Sub-Saharan Africa often center on extreme poverty: the subcontinent is home to half of the world’s extreme poor, and the num...
There's No Place Like Home! Resilient Housing
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries wher...
AFRONOMICS: M-Pesa and the rise of digital financial services in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the share of adults with a mobile money account now exceeds 10 percent. That mobile revolution b...
Putting Nature to Work
This podcast explains how a new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, i...
Rising To The Challenge Of A Changing World
In 2017, the World Bank with its partners launched a new initiative for a water-secure world, the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partner...
AFRONOMICS : le Rwanda, en tête du classement CPIA
En 2017, près du tiers des 38 pays africains bénéficiant du guichet concessionnel IDA ont renforcé la qualité de leur politiques et institut...
AFRONOMICS: Rwanda tops Africa in CPIA ratings
In 2017, nearly third of the 38 African countries that receive the IDA concessional window, strengthened their policy and institutional qual...
AFRONOMICS: protéger les économies côtières d’Afrique de l’Ouest
Aujourd'hui, environ 120 millions de personnes vivent le long des côtes ouest-africaines et sont menacées quotidiennement par l'érosion côti...
AFRONOMICS: Protecting West Africa’s Coastal Economies
Today, there are about 120 million people living along the coast of West Africa who are threatened by coastal erosion and flooding on a dail...
From Water Scarce Cities to Water Secure Cities
Population growth, economic expansion and climate change are increasing the pressures on limited water supplies in cities around the world....
Let Everyone Reap the Benefits of Water
Water belongs to everyone and yet many are excluded from its benefits and often from ownership and control of this critical resource. Inclus...
AFRONOMICS: Africa’s Pulse Spring Edition Part 2: Access to Energy in Africa
Part Two of our discussion on Africa’s Pulse focusses on how African countries can improve access to electricity to accelerate progress in d...
Resilience To Survive and Thrive
What does resilience mean when it comes to water? Is it really that important? Experts explain in this podcast. Water World is a new podcast...
AFRONOMICS: Africas Pulse Spring Edition Part 1
AFRONOMICS: Africas Pulse Spring Edition Part 1 by Listen to the latest news, insights, and development highlights from the World Bank.