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A SMART solution: How we helped build a low-cost flood alert and water monitoring system in African cities

Many of us in the world are fortunate enough to live with a plethora of technologies at our fingertips. High-tech devices are part of our daily routine and we use them habitually, often without…

Sun Hwa Song, Siddhesh Kaushik, Leslie Ricketts, David Mariano|
Disaster Risk Management

Living in a two-speed world: Extreme poverty is declining in most countries but stagnating in economies in fragility or conflict

A new report, “Fragility and Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty,” applies the freshly updated World Bank classification criteria for economies in fragile and conflict-…

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Tara Vishwanath, Alexander Irwin|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Poverty

Data Dive 2019: Hackathon brings data scientists together for development

In October 2019, members of Data Science DC (a meetup within Data Community DC) teamed up with World Bank staff for a Data Dive Hackathon at the World Bank.

Haishan Fu, Dino Merotto, Janet Dobbins|

From better data to development solutions: Capacity building in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Statistics for Results Facility (SRF), a multi-donor trust fund, worked with countries to improve the production, availability, and use of data for evidence-based decision making...

Masako Hiraga, Yele Batana, Melat Assefa|

Energy prices retreated while non-energy prices advanced in January—Pink Sheet

Energy commodity prices declined more than 3% in January, led by natural gas in Europe (-21%) and the U.S. (-9.5%) the World Bank Pink Sheet reported. Crude oil fell as well (-2.7%)...

John Baffes, Maria Hazel Macadangdang|