Of all the planning and risk anticipation, no one had foreseen or imagined that a pandemic could paralyze the entire world. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis surprised us all and changed the way…

Digital agriculture has the potential to be a game-changer for agriculture in Indonesia and the country’s startup ecosystem has seen a rapid growth of AgTech or digital solutions for agriculture…

Africa is the world’s youngest continent—the average age of its roughly 1.3 billion inhabitants is 18 years, and in the Sub-Saharan region about 40% of the population is under 15.

Africa has the opportunity to harness the digital economy as a driver of growth and innovation.

No sector, least of all any in my own country, has been spared the horrors of COVID-19 (coronavirus). In Cameroon, the data from a National Statistical Institute study conducted in June 2020 gave…

Cities and communities in middle- and low-income countries increasingly are making adaptation an investment priority to safeguard citizens from climate extremes. Yet adaptation must be paired with…

While Rwanda might have been detrimentally affected by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, both economically and socially, it is essential to notice that the country had a robust basis to manage…

In my country, the Gambia, youths make up more than 50 percent of the population and are therefore too significant a number to be ignored. Any post-pandemic economic and social development plan…

It’s imperative that innovative companies and start-ups focusing on women’s health and wellbeing receive the attention and financial support required to develop and scale their critical solutions…

Maldives art competition for World Bank country partnership framework