Also available in: Français Recently, Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, appointed a cabinet that is 50% female. Explaining the choice, Trudeau stated that it was important “to…

Florence Kondylis, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak |

Specialists in Sri Lanka receive training on the InaSafe risk assessment platform. © World Bank ​​When I first heard about OpenStreetMap (OSM) – the so called Wikipedia of maps, built by…

Alanna Simpson |

A new report entitled, “The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda” launched last week at a side-event of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)…

Rachel Coleman |

Many dinner conversations and friendly debates proceed in a data vacuum: “The problem is big… very big!” How big exactly? Most likely your friend has no idea. It is often said that we live in a…

Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep |

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…

Valerie Lorena |

More photos in a slideshow about early childhood development in Malawi  here. 
Today, on the Day of the African Child, we interview our World Bank colleague, Christin McConnell, about early…

Aliza Marcus |

Sunset on Lake Malawi. Photo: Jane Jamieson I never planned to get so involved with sharing knowledge when I started my career as a civil engineer. However, last week saw the culmination of two…

Jane Jamieson |

​​Intriguing, I thought when I first heard the phrase. In Ghana’s small-scale fisheries, the 'Fish Mommy' or 'Fish Queen' is the matriarch of the fish landings. She also…

Jingjie Chu |

  By Stéphane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, and Francis Samson Nkoka Malawi is no stranger to significant flooding. In January 2012, floods affected more than 10, 000 people and caused US$3 million…

Stéphane Hallegatte |

View of Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo: David Davidson/flickr Geographically and historically, Azerbaijan has often been at the crossroads: of trade routes, cultures, and influences. From a telecom…

Natalija Gelvanovska-Garcia, Zhenia Viatchaninova Dalphond |