In South Asia, the case for road safety investment is stronger than ever

Hartwig Schafer, Makhtar Diop |
Health, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Poverty, Social Development, Transport, Urban Development

Resilient transport investments: a climate imperative for Small Island Developing Countries

This blog post was co-authored by Franz Drees-Gross, Director, Transport and ICT Global Practice, and Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice.…

Franz Drees-Gross, Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez |
Climate Change, Transport, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development

Unlocking the transformative power of waterways

Transport history was in the making a few days ago when a Bangladeshi ship carried a consignment of 1, 000 tons of steel and iron sheets from the Port of Kolkata in West Bengal to India’s…

Karla Gonzalez Carvajal, Diep Nguyen-Van Houtte |
Climate Change, Competitiveness, Jobs & Development, Trade, Transport

Changing lives along the road in Honduras

We arrived in the village of La Redonda-El Aguila, Honduras at ten o’clock in the morning, when the temperature was already about 94 degrees Fahrenheit. We were warmly welcomed and invited to take…

Marcela Silva, Melisa Gaitan Fanconi |
Education, Health, Jobs & Development, Social Protection, Competitiveness