In a changing climate—with more frequent, longer lasting, or extreme wind, rain, snow, cold, and heat—how can urban planning and design influence our mobility choices? And how can city governments…
Digital innovation has enormous potential to solve real-world problems. But connectivity remains essential to drive innovation in emerging markets. How can we ensure access to international…
The key hygiene issues arise at the consumption stage and downstream, during collection and sorting of plastic waste before recycling.
Illicit trade in tobacco products undermines global tobacco prevention and control interventions, particularly with respect to tobacco tax policy. From a public health perspective, illicit trade…
Principals have to deal with hundreds of students and their personal and academic challenges. (Photo: Sarah Farhat / World Bank) All schools are different. I’m not referring to the building, the…
Also available in: Français | Español | العربية The premise behind the Sustainable Cities photo competition was simple. [[tweetable]]We wanted to learn what people around the world “see” when they…
Photo: USAID | Flickr Creative Commons Over $4.5 trillion a year will be spent on infrastructure between now and 2020. A recent article by PwC identified a number of themes likely to guide that…
Graduating university students in Kazakhstan. Photo: Maxim Zolotukhin / The World Bank Just to be clear, this is not about the American TV show formerly hosted by President-elect Donald Trump…
More than 700 million people live in extreme poverty around the world. If that number seems daunting, then consider this: 1.1 billion people – more than three times the population of the United…
Also available in: Français | العربية A boat trip from Port Elizabeth to Kingstown, in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a one-hour trip that locals take several…