Urban Development

Mismanagement of natural resources gives us no margin of error to handle an increasingly unpredictable climate

     Photo © World Bank/    Tree planting: Professor Wangari    Maathai with Johannes Zutt I spent yesterday in rural Kenya with the World Development Report (WDR) team and the inspirational…

Johannes Zutt|
Agriculture and Food, Environment, Urban Development

Effects of climate change put Mongolian herders at risk, new research shows

Tony Whitten|
Environment, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food, Urban Development

Will the Nano Fulfill the Promise of Mobility in Developing Countries?

Much in the same way the Ford Model T revolutionized transportation in the United States and the Volkswagen Beetle did in Germany, the Tata Nano (small in Gujarati) seeks to do the same for India…

Joe Qian|
Energy, Environment, Competitiveness, Transport, Urban Development

Mongolia's growing shantytowns: the cold and toxic ger districts

  Children breathe thick, toxic smog from thousands of stoves in Ulaanbaatar's ger districts, which are home to 60 percent of the city's population. There’s no capital city anywhere in…

David Lawrence|
Energy, Environment, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Urban Development

Video: Getting commuters onto bikes in the Philippines

A couple weeks ago, blogger Chris Pablo wrote here about a project designed to get more people in the Philippines riding bicycles by creating and designating separate bike paths in Marikina City,…

James I Davison|
Transport, Urban Development
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Urban Development