Education

How is Vietnam’s Mekong Delta adapting to a changing climate?

In 2017, the Government of Vietnam passed a much-needed resolution that embraces a new thinking – “actively living with nature.” With that, the development trajectory of the Mekong Delta has…

Benoît Bosquet, Carolyn Turk|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Education

Training the next generation of groundwater specialists in the Sahel

As climate change diminishes the availability of surface water in Africa, groundwater has emerged as a vital untapped resource. But in the Sahel, a global hotspot for climate change and one of the…

François Bertone, Yeli Mariam Dakoure Sou|
Climate Change, Education, Gender, Jobs & Development, Water

Combating regressive gender norms and violence against women through social media edutainment campaigns – Lessons from India

A recent World Bank paper tested the effectiveness of a social-media-delivered of entertainment education (edutainment) campaign targeting 18-24-year-olds residing in seven large cities in…

Dante Donati, Victor Orozco, Nandan Rao|
Education, Gender, Governance

Save your environment: The (often) overlooked problem of research reproducibility in economics

While in many situations the current standards are not sufficient to achieve reproducibility, this blog argues that modern computing changes the conditions necessary and sufficient for…

Michael M. Lokshin, Zurab Sajaia|
Competitiveness, Education, Jobs & Development

Higher Education: Understanding demand and redefining values

In developing countries, we are seeing a massive growth in demand for higher education as more students than ever are moving through the education pipeline—from primary to secondary and on to…

Mamta Murthi, Roberta Malee Bassett|
Education
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