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Lights, camera, #ClimateAction!
“In a time when gods walked the earth, an epic battle rages between the encroaching civilization of man and the gods of the forest…” That’s the opening line of the official movie trailer for Princess...
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Poverty and exclusion among Indigenous Peoples: The global evidence
Flower Hmong women, Bac Ha market, Vietnam. Photo: Tran Thi Hoa/World Bank There are about 370 million Indigenous people in the world today, according to estimates. Present in over 90 countries,...
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How the World Bank helped Giant Pandas recover
Recently, the IUCN World Conservation Union announced that the Giant Panda is no longer globally endangered with extinction, but has been “down-listed” to globally vulnerable. The Fourth National...
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A tale of two disasters: Communities connecting and learning from each other
Community members from Nepal learn how to make paper jewelry crafts from Ibasho-Japan members. (Photo: Margaret Arnold / World Bank) In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015,...
View ArticleTransformative investments shape Vietnam’s economic rise
Watch Video I was in Vietnam last month and I was so impressed by the tremendous progress the country has made compared to what I had seen 17 years earlier. In 2000, the Nhieu Loc–Thi Nghe canal in Ho...
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Three things we need to know about “SOGI”
May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, or IDAHOT. Why should we care about IDAHOT? Because sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI, matters. Here are...
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Vietnam’s financial inclusion priorities: Expanding financial services and...
It’s nighttime and the streets are bustling in Vietnam’s cities and towns. Buoyed by years of strong growth, the country has a burgeoning middle class with purchasing power to sustain restaurants and...
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Maximizing finance for development works
People in Saint-Louis, Senegal. © Ibrahima BA Sané/World BankMassive investment is needed to meet the ambitious goal of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity by 2030. By some estimates...
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The 2018 Fragility Forum: Managing risks for peace and stability
In just under two weeks, about 1,000 people will gather in Washington D.C. for the 2018 Fragility Forum. Policy makers from developed and developing countries, practitioners from humanitarian agencies,...
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Let’s work together to prevent violence and protect the vulnerable against...
Participants from 90 countries and 400 organizations joined the 2018 Fragility Forum to explore development, humanitarian and security approaches to fostering global peace and stability. © World...
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How is your life different from that of your parents?
© You Ji/World Bank Yunus owns a fabric store in Blantyre, Malawi. The store was founded by his grandfather, who immigrated to Malawi in 1927, and has now been in his family for three generations....
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The miracle of mangroves for coastal protection in numbers
© Ursula Meissner/The Nature Conservancy The North Atlantic hurricane season officially opens June 1, and there are predictions that storms this year could be worse than last year. That would be bad...
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Identification as a centerpiece for development: What can other countries...
Juan and his sisters proudly show their identification. © Daniel Silva Yoshisato/World Bank Peru has placed so much emphasis on the importance of identification that it has created a museum dedicated...
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Accelerating Vietnam’s path to prosperity
Da Nang, Vietnam. © PixabayVietnam continues to boom. It is one of the most dynamic emerging markets in East Asia, marked, over the past thirty years, by a remarkable reduction in poverty and...
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