Machine Learning Joins the Housing Revolution
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries where resilien...
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Fighting poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results. http://www.worldbank.org/ The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results. We are not a bank in the common sense; we aim to help people help themselves and their environment by sharing knowledge and providing financial and technical assistance. Conceived in 1944 to reconstruct war-torn Europe, we work in more than 100 developing countries.
AFRONOMICS: What will it take to accelerate poverty reduction in Africa?
Despite the incredible progress that so many African countries have made, poverty remains a defining part of the narrative around Africa. While the sh...
AFRONOMICS: The Future of Work in Africa, Part 2: The Role of Social Protection
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old” manufactu...
AFRONOMICS: The Future of Work in Africa, Part 1: Can digital technologies really work for all?
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old” manufactu...
Smarter Subsidies
Doing More With Less – Smarter Subsidies for Water Supply and Sanitation shows that most existing water supply and sanitation subsidies are pervasive,...
From Unknown To Urgency
Quality: Unknown — The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath the water’...
AFRONOMICS: Analyzing Inequality in Africa
Discussions on Sub-Saharan Africa often center on extreme poverty: the subcontinent is home to half of the world’s extreme poor, and the number of peo...
There's No Place Like Home! Resilient Housing
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries where resilien...
AFRONOMICS: M-Pesa and the rise of digital financial services in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the share of adults with a mobile money account now exceeds 10 percent. That mobile revolution began in Ke...
Putting Nature to Work
This podcast explains how a new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including w...