How to make progress in the fight against corruption

The World Bank published a global flagship report, Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption. This report can help guide governments and anti-corruption…

Rajni Bajpai, Bernard Myers |
Agriculture and Food, Competitiveness, Debt, Digital Development, Disaster Risk Management, Education, Energy, Environment, Extractive Industries, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Governance, Health, Inequality and Shared Prosperity, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Jobs & Development, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Poverty, Regional Integration, Social Protection, Social Sustainability and Inclusion, Trade, Transport, Urban Development, Water

In Africa, technology and human capital go hand in hand

Photo: eLearning Africa Rwanda’s progress from the devastating civil war two decades ago to one of the most rapidly developing African countries is a remarkable narrative on development. Twenty-…

Sheila Jagannathan |
Agriculture and Food, Digital Development, Education, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Jobs & Development

How countries and communities are taking on gender-based violence

The stat is appalling: [[tweetable]]1 in 3 women worldwide have or will experience intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.[[/tweetable]] Although it may take…

Sweta Shrestha, Ram Devineni, Isabel Santagostino Recavarren, Margarita Puerto, Rocio Calidonio |
Education, Gender, Governance, Poverty, Social Sustainability and Inclusion

Global Health Weekly Links: August 22, 2014

This week’s links highlight the 500-day countdown to the MDG deadline, global response to #Ebola and the push towards universal health coverage. Each Friday, we share a selection of global health…

Aisha Faquir |
Education, Health