Jobs & Development

Talking with Teeth: Micro-Planning with Community Scorecards

Coming together is a process Keeping together is progress Working together is success This message, written on the wall of a public building in Gureghar village in Maharashtra, India, implies the…

Darshana Patel|
Agriculture and Food, Education, Governance, Jobs & Development, Social Protection

Further evidence of rebound in migrant employment and possible stabilizing of remittance flows

Ani Silwal|
Jobs & Development, Digital Development, Governance

Turnaround in migrant employment in the US?

We had suggested earlier the bottoming out of remittances to Latin America in response to stabilizing construction activity in the US. The latest employment numbers for June 2009 from the Current…

Ani Silwal|
Jobs & Development

Dune bashing in Dubai...with a hawaladar!

Dubai is a must for any one working on migration and remittances. One of the seven Emirates, but one that depends more on trade, finance and real estate than oil and gas, Dubai is a wonder in the…

Dilip Ratha|
Jobs & Development

World Bank Awards $840,000 for Grassroot Organizations to Fight Undernutrition

The Nutrition Development Marketplace was held in Dhaka on Wednesday August 5th. Twenty-one civil society organizations from across South Asia won grants from an $840, 000 award pool funded by the…

Joe Qian|
Agriculture and Food, Gender, Education, Health, Jobs & Development
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