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Increasing frequency and severity of deadly typhoons in the Pacific, flooding in Chennai, India, the total desiccation of Lake Poopó, the second largest lake in Bolivia...
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Maybe she had children, and wanted to warn them about the wayward world beyond adolescence.Maybe her mother, or her mother's mother, told her the story, and as a child she del...
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Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, and u...
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Improving The Quality Of Skills Training: What The Adolescent Girls Initiative Pilots Can Teach Us
The Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) through its eight pilots taught us a great deal about how to make skills training more female-friendly and support young women's transiti...
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For the second straight year, the global economy has grown without a corresponding rise in emissions tied to climate change, reversing an almost two-century-old trend and givi...
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Last week, actress and feminist powerhouse Emma Watson made waves in the media after announcingthat she would be taking a year off of acting for “personal development&rd...
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Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis
My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s bee...
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Last month I had the pleasure of attending a ‘trilogue’ organized by the European Commission for policymakers, scientists and the private sector on the subject of ...
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