As we conclude a five day south-south learning forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, participants reflect on the value of south-south exchanges, what resonated the most, and more importantly strategies…

Anush Bezhanyan |

Field Visit to Escola Municipal Almirante Tamandare, Vidigal, Brazil This week I’ve been participating in the World Bank’s South-South Learning Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where policymakers…

Mohamad Al-Arief |

What happens when you grab an interdisciplinary group of skilled and highly motivated hackers, give them the task of improving the bus system of the city; and grant them full autonomy over the…

Diego Canales |

Los océanos nos necesitan ​ ​What is it about oceans? Ocean events seem to be getting bigger and broader in their participation. No matter whether the people in the room are representing…

Rachel Kyte |

a road map -- er, river map -- for the expansion of educational opportunities in rural Brazil? According to figures from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, "Countries will need an extra 1.6…

Michael Trucano |

One of the major aspirations of the World Bank is to make a real impact on the countries’ development. But when the Bank is a small player relative to the size of the country, can it be what we…

Jiro Tominaga |

I got together with my friend Asma'a one evening at a popular Cairo café overlooking the Nile. Like many of the young Egyptians I had met that summer, Asma'a was smart, motivated — and…

Nasim Novin |

Mobility is a precondition for economic growth: mobility for access to jobs, education, health, and other services. Mobility of goods is also critical to supply world markets in our globalized…

Marc Juhel |

Conservation biology was baptized as an interdisciplinary problem science in 1978 at a University of California San Diego conference. But the conservation movement precedes this conference by at…

Valerie Hickey |

Safe, Clean, Affordable Transport is the motto of the World Bank’s Transport Sector. Evidence from several analyses for urban transport systems suggests that improving the transport system:…

Leonardo Canon Rubiano |