Since 2011, as part of the Nile Basin Initiative, the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office in partnership with CIWA has run an internship program for the next generation of talented water…

Shyam KC, Yukio Tanaka, Anders Jagerskog |

What if, to send money from Washington to New York, you had to call your banker in Singapore? Until 2021, what sounds like a mere thought experiment was a very real problem for businesses in…

Asta Bareisaite, Sameer Goyal, Karol Karpinski |

The mega-challenges engulfing the world today – from COVID-19 to climate change – have highlighted the interdependencies between people, planet, and the economy.

Mari Elka Pangestu |

This journey began when, after 27 years, the World Bank began working in Somalia again in 2015, launching a small-scale infrastructure project based around water—a project now flourishing, having…

Chantal Richey |

Learn about the ties between gender-based violence and climate change.

Ayat Soliman, Helene Carlsson Rex, David Warren |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces four papers published from November 1 to November 15 on various topics, including…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |

One year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of education became the main predictor of joblessness in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. These four countries represent 34% of…

Ivette Maria Contreras-González, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters, Michael Weber |

Nearly two-thirds of the world’s poor are projected to live in conflict-affected countries by 2030. This blog sheds light on the links between conflict and poverty by exploring how terrorist acts…

Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim, Utz Pape |

Pastoralists rely primarily on livestock for their livelihoods. This makes them more vulnerable to climate-related shocks, and therefore they have the highest poverty rates in Somalia. When…

Sonia Plaza, Caroline Cerruti |

The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the largest global shocks in recent history, but it did not increase extreme poverty in Africa as it was feared it would. The reason may be a combination of things…

Kibrom A. Abay, Nishant Yonzan, Sikandra Kurdi, Kibrom Tafere |