2022 draws to a close: another turbulent year, as a dire climate emergency, protracted war and a lingering pandemic collide with fuel and food crises, impending recession, heightened poverty and…

Maitreyi Bordia Das, Melina Fleury |

Between the 1970s and 1998, the World Bank financed 100 sites and services projects in 53 countries. Now, could a second generation of sites and services projects be a solution for the housing…

Judy Baker, Sheila Kamunyori, Keziah Mwang’a |

Road infrastructure is vulnerable to geohazards. Imagine you’re driving on a single lane rural road in Himalayas where you have a steep hill on your left and deep cliff on your right. It’s raining…

Akiko Toya, Masatsugu Takamatsu |

Women are at the forefront of the COVID-19 response - as community and government leaders, frontline workers, and scientists – they are managing an unprecedented global crisis.

Maitreyi Bordia Das, Victoria Stanley |

From urban fire risk to effective mitigation – Building safer & healthier cities

Theresa Abrassart, Brian Meacham, Keiko Sakoda, Thomas Moullier |

An investment planning tool for green cities

Prashant Kapoor |

The largest pandemic in 100 years swept across the globe, upending lives and economies, and reshaping life as we know it.

Zev Stampfer |

Most of development assistance today is delivered through input finance with no guarantee of successful achievement of results.

Inga Afanasieva, Maitreyi Bordia Das, Sameh Wahba |

As much of the world develops at an increasingly rapid pace, some regions are lagging. Poverty is increasingly concentrated in places affected by fragility, conflict and violence.

Sameh Wahba, Emmanuel Nyirinkindi, Maitreyi Bordia Das, Zev Stampfer |