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Fighting poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results. http://www.worldbank.org/ The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. Our mission i...
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries wher...
Despite the incredible progress that so many African countries have made, poverty remains a defining part of the narrative around Africa. Wh...
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old”...
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old”...
Doing More With Less – Smarter Subsidies for Water Supply and Sanitation shows that most existing water supply and sanitation subsidies are...
Quality: Unknown — The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath...
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...
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries wher...
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...
This podcast explains how a new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, i...
In 2017, the World Bank with its partners launched a new initiative for a water-secure world, the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partner...
En 2017, près du tiers des 38 pays africains bénéficiant du guichet concessionnel IDA ont renforcé la qualité de leur politiques et institut...
In 2017, nearly third of the 38 African countries that receive the IDA concessional window, strengthened their policy and institutional qual...
Aujourd'hui, environ 120 millions de personnes vivent le long des côtes ouest-africaines et sont menacées quotidiennement par l'érosion côti...
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...
Population growth, economic expansion and climate change are increasing the pressures on limited water supplies in cities around the world....
Water belongs to everyone and yet many are excluded from its benefits and often from ownership and control of this critical resource. Inclus...
Part Two of our discussion on Africa’s Pulse focusses on how African countries can improve access to electricity to accelerate progress in d...
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 by Listen to the latest news, insights, and development highlights from the World Bank.
Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UN Development Program (UNDP), talks about how preventing violent extremism can help us reach the goal t...
WaterWorld is a new podcast series brought to you by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partn...
Poland moved from middle-income to high-income status in less than 15 years. How did the country do this? Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister...
Joe Gebbia, Co-founder of Airbnb, talks about the new digital economy and its impact on development.
WaterWorld is a new podcast series brought to you by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and the Global Water Security & Sanitation Partn...
Rachel Kyte, CEO and Special Representative of the UN-Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All, talks climate change, private sector...
Timothy Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, talks about resilience and sustainability in a hurricane-prone region.
Why are partnerships crucial to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Jeremy Oppenheim, Program Director, Business and Sustainab...
Anta Babakar, Executive Director of Sedima, and Nour Al Hassan, Founder and CEO of Tarjama, discuss how women entrepreneurs play a critical...
Amanda Farnan, GenUN Georgetown Campus Leader, and Mac Darrow, Representative, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Righ...
Raj Rao, Chief Executive Officer of Ford Smart Mobility, discusses transport mobility with Josh Slusher, Director of Global Entrepreneurs Co...
Mary Snapp, Vice President of Microsoft Philanthropies, talks about how technology is the vehicle to a better future for the less fortunate...
Get inspired by Katrina Sasse, farmer at Leichhardt Fields, Australia, and Brian Ndyaguma, Project Manager and Entrepreneur, Uganda, as they...
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim talks about the important connection between investing in human capital and economic growth.
Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank CEO, and Kathy Calvin, President and CEO of United Nations Foundation, discuss how working with partners ca...
New World Bank report Uncharted Waters presents new evidence on how increasingly erratic rainfall impacts farms, firms and families. It also...
Join World Bank Chief Economist for Africa Albert Zeufack for a discussion with lead economists Punam Chuhan-Pole, David Evans, and Cesar Ca...
In this edition of Afronomics, World Bank Africa Region Chief Economist, Albert Zeufack, speaks with Dr. Zaki Khoury of Microsoft at the Inv...
Across Africa and around the world, the urban poor, especially those in informal settlements, are increasingly faced with risks to their liv...
Chief Economist of the World Bank's Africa Region, Albert Zeufack, chats with Silicon Valley’s Kamran Elahian about the power of disruptive...
Earlier this year, hundreds of geeks gathered in South Africa for the first ever World Data Forum. Among them, was Tariq Khokhar. In a speci...
Solar power is changing lives in Bangladesh and has helped the South Asian country leapfrog into an era of using renewable energy to light u...
Globally, 77 countries still don’t have the data they need to adequately track and measure poverty. These data come from household surveys,...
Phiona Mutesi, the Ugandan chess champion who inspired the movie Queen of Katwe, shares with communications officer Pabsy Pabalan Mariano he...
Has renewable energy reached the stage where it’s cheaper than fossil fuels? Presenters Tariq Khokhar and Raka Banerjee talk to Mafalda Duar...
What do our cell phones reveal about society’s poverty or prosperity? This week’s edition of 'Between 2 Geeks’ looks at the way that metadat...
World Bank Africa Region Chief Economist, Albert Zeufack and Africa’s Pulse Lead author, Punam Chuhan Pole discuss the most recent Africa’ P...
Testing helps evaluate the performance and progress of pupils in the classroom. But what is the best way to judge the effectiveness of an ed...
What’s the connection between dice and climate change? Find out in this week’s edition of ‘Between 2 Geeks’ - the World Bank’s podcast that...
Where in the world is the population growing, where is it shrinking, and why are there such variations? The first episode of Between 2 Geeks...