The World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries, IDA has been a reliable partner in South Asia for more than six decades and contributed to a sharp decline in poverty in the region. Yet, for…

The world is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed and scale, with more than half the global population living in cities today… rising to nearly 7 out of 10 people in cities by 2050.

Politicians have erroneous belief about citizen preferences. When you give them the correct information, they change their behavior.

The word "convenience" in the single-use plastics context, needs urgent redefinition, especially in the East Asia region where several countries top the list in terms of plastics leaking…

The province of Sindh includes some of the most drought prone areas of Pakistan. The World Bank's Sindh Resilience Project aims to mitigate drought risks in vulnerable areas of Sindh, working…

Two years since its inception, the Romania Disaster Risk Management Community continues to form partnerships and friendships that can strengthen Romania’s future. This community has even informed…

Ranking third globally, South Asia generates a staggering 334 million metric tons of solid waste every year, and most of it is plastic that ends up in the ocean. But the region is also at the…

في الفترة بين عامي 2000 و 2017، شهد العالم تراجع عدد الأشخاص الذين يتغوَّطون في العراء بواقع النصف تقريبا، وذلك من 1.3 مليار شخص إلى حوالي 670 مليونا. وفي الهند، تراجع عدد من يتغوَّطون في العراء…

Open defecation is the practice of people defecating outside, such as in street gutters, behind bushes or into open bodies of water. Between 2000 and 2017, the world nearly...

La defecación al aire libre es la práctica de las personas de defecar en lugares abiertos, como en las alcantarillas de las calles, detrás de arbustos o en masas de agua.