Financing polio eradication and broader development

Photo: © Masaru Goto / World Bank

Quentin Wodon |
Education, Health

Striving, struggling and thriving in Nepal

Lahjung Bhotia with her children in Hatiya, Sankhuwasabha. Credit – Jay Poudyal/Stories of Nepal Lahjung Bhotia is from Hatiya, Sankhuwasabha, a remote mountainous district in Eastern Nepal. She…

Sailesh Tiwari |
Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Education, Health, Poverty

How can we afford not to provide power when countries are fragile?

Earlier this year I was on a panel organized during the Fragility Forum 2016, where the question posed to a panel of five was, “[[tweetable]]what can we do on energy in fragile states?[[/tweetable…

Charles Feinstein |
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Energy, Education, Health

Empowering farming communities to manage biodiversity in Nepal

 Also available in Spanish Surya and Saraswati Adhikari on their biodiverse farm, Nepal. Photo credit: Bioversity International/J. Zucker The Himalayan mountain village of Begnas sits in a valley…

M. Ann Tutwiler |
Health, Agriculture and Food, Education, Environment, Governance

Equal opportunity to women benefits all

As we today mark UN Women’s Day, it is worth considering what the inequality between men and women costs South Asian countries and what can be done about it.  One big cost of inequality is that…

Annette Dixon |
Agriculture and Food, Education, Gender, Health, Social Sustainability and Inclusion