Due to climate change, rising temperatures could push 44 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 and cause more than 21 million deaths by 2050, exceeding 13 times the mortality of the COVID-19…

Jeremy Veillard, Gabriel Aguirre Martens, Mikhael Iglesias Luzardo |

In Colombia's Pacifico region, the World Bank has been supporting a diverse range of infrastructure projects, including investments to build new river docks and improve waterway navigation.…

Ellin Ivarsson, Carlos Murgui Maties |

Migration of any scale can yield benefits to the host countries by increasing the supply of labor (particularly in sectors where it is scarce), expanding the skills of the workforce, and providing…

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla |

How can a child learn in a school where the walls are crumbling, and the shelves are barren of books?

Gabriel Demombynes |

Six years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, among other countries, are still recovering from the impact of two of the deadliest hydrometeorological events in…

Francesco Varotto, Clara Ariza, Roberto Mendez, Naraya Carrasco, Suranga Kahandawa |

Waste amounted to 3.3 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, with landfills the primary source. As climate change continues to pose an ever-looming existential threat to the world and…

Ailin Tomio, Kremena M. Ionkova, Silpa Kaza |

Urgent reforms on broadband policy would hasten the digital transformation the Philippines needs to achieve its goal of becoming a prosperous middle-class society by 2040.

Naoto Kanehira, Mitch Abdon, Mary Grace Mirandilla-Santos |

Facing the biggest education crisis in a century, commitments to improve must become a reality urgently if children are to gain the future they deserve in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo |

Across the Caribbean, farmers are worried about improving their production, and food shoppers are worried about the high cost of food prices. While international food prices have decreased…

Diego Arias, Melissa Brown, Eva Hasiner |

A new World Bank report, Unlivable: What the Urban Heat Island Effect Means for East Asia’s Cities, sheds light on three important questions to help city leaders rise to the extreme urban heat…

Anna Wellenstein, Mark Roberts, Chandan Deuskar, Nick Jones, Jane Park |