Blogs

The Middle East and North Africa are going through a period of change, posing a new set of challenges in several areas, to name a few: jobs, youth employment, governance and social accountability. This site invites participants to contribute to a conversation around these important issues.

A blog by Shanta Devarajan, World Bank Chief Economist for Africa

All About Finance provides a platform for vigorous public debate on many of the financial sector issues faced in developing countries. The blog is hosted by Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Chief Economist for Financial and Private Sector Development.

This blog is hosted by the team working on the World Bank’s upcoming World Development Report 2011 'Conflict, Security, and Development'.

The aim of the Development Impact blog is to cover all things related to impact evaluations and evaluative research: new papers, planned or ongoing evaluations, methodological issues, and stories from people conducting evaluations around the world.

This blog is a forum to get broad-based input on fundamental questions relating to climate change and development.

The DM blog is a collective blog seeking to explore the knowledge, experiences and partnerships accumulated by the program in these years.

East Asia & Pacific is facing some great development challenges today: urbanization, protection of the environment, the need to find renewable energy sources and many others. This blog creates a conversation around these important issues.

Education is universally recognized as one of the most fundamental building blocks for human development and poverty reduction. This blog explores issues related to education and the power of investing in people.

The EduTech blog explores issues related to the use of information and communication technologies to benefit education in developing countries.

This blog is maintained by the South Asia Region of the World Bank Group. Its goal is to exchange ideas on how to end poverty in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

This is the World Bank's blog on governance and anti-corruption. It aims at providing a space for debate and knowledge sharing on this critical field of development.

This blog is maintained by the Growth and Crisis (GC) Program of the World Bank Institute, bringing you timely news, resources, tools, ideas and commentaries on issues related to the global economic crisis and growth.

The IC4D blog explores the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on development, both directly and as an enabler for other sectors of the economy.

Inside the Web explores the intersection of the web and the World Bank, and gives you an inside look at the Bank's web activities.

Investing in Health is a forum for discussing health as a whole--what is preventing people from being healthy, how we can change this, and what impact it will have on development.

The Latin America & Caribbean blog offers the unique perspective of World Bank experts and high-profile guests on the issues that matter most in the region. Click on the Bloggers tab to find out more about the people blogging here or on the Contact tab to get in touch.

This blog is a forum for discussing ideas and debating issues connected with economic development and poverty reduction. The blog features entries from the World Bank’s development experts as well as leading lights from universities, government, think tanks, NGOs and development agencies.

Nasikiliza, the Swahili word for "I am listening", aims to capture the stories and experiences of World Bank staff working to support Africa’s development.

This blog is a forum for discussing development data issues and open access to data. Open access to data is a key part of the World Bank's commitment to sharing our knowledge to improve people's lives.

This blog, written primarily by World Bank staff, is devoted to the movement of people, and how migration and the money (remittances) that migrants send home can be leveraged for development.

This blog explores the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere.

Insuring investments, ensuring opportunities

The Private Sector Development Blog (PSD Blog) gathers together news, resources and ideas about the role of private enterprise in fighting poverty. The blog is informal and represents the quirks and opinions of the bloggers, not the World Bank Group.

A product of the Development Prospects Group at The World Bank, Prospects for Development provides regular commentary on the effect of global developments on growth in the developing world.

This blog is a space for urban development professionals to exchange ideas and engage some of the central questions of sustainable cities: What makes a sustainable city? How do we measure a city's sustainability? The space is also used to link to the most interesting sustainable city news and articles we're reading.

This blog, launched in 2012, the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, is devoted to an exchange of ideas on how to achieve the goals of universal access, doubling renewable energy and doubling the improvement in energy efficiency.

The Safe, Clean, Affordable -- Transport for Development blog is a space for transport professionals to engage in conversations, exchange ideas and share knowledge, expertise and personal experiences in working on transport projects and learning about their impact.

The World Bank Voices blog is a space for ideas, insights and events that are shaping development and the fight against poverty.

This blog is a global conversation among young people on poverty and other development-related issues. It's maintained by the World Bank's Youthink! team.