As we get ready to kick off the new year, let’s recount the voices and stories about how we can enhance the way we interact with our planet. From Ethiopia to Indonesia, we’ve seen our efforts…
This is the sixth post in our series of blogs by graduate students on the job market this year. Interventions during early childhood have begun to gain importance in the social policy agenda in…
When I look at the rate of resource depletion, at soil erosion and declining fish stocks, at climate change’s impacts on nearly every ecosystem, I see a physical world that is slowly but…
Marine Protected Areas will be a topic for discussion at the IUCN World Parks Congress, which is opening today in Sydney. And it should be: MPAs—which are marine spaces that restrict human…
From August 2002, just months after Timor-Leste gained independence, to April 2006, I was the World Bank’s Country Manager for Timor-Leste and thus eyewitness to an unfolding state-building…
Follow the authors on Twitter: @danpulido and @IrenePortabales A branded metro station in Madrid Most metro systems around the world are unable to cover their operating costs with fare box…
Also available in: Español Follow the authors on Twitter: @jpvelez78, @canonleonardo and @ScorciaH Why TransMilenio isn't working (Spanish) A few weeks ago, a video entitled “Why doesn’t…
In my first mission as senior director, I am participating in an event in London this week hosted by the Governance Partnership Facility (GPF). This multi donor trust fund includes the World Bank…
On Sunday in Apia, the capital of Samoa, I saw the results of the World Bank Group’s work with coastal communities that were devastated by the 2009 tsunami and by Cyclone Evan in 2012. Working…
Teresa at her home store, where she sells candies amongst her other wares. en espanol A few years ago, authors Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio published “Hungry Planet, ” a fascinating book with…