Tag: World Bank

These last few weeks have had both the insiders of the international Bretton Woods institutions - the IMF and the ...

Updated October 12, 2021. After reviewing allegations against the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva that she pressured World Bank ...

2018 was a turning point: Good for new World Bank lending that was substantially expanded, bad for its “Doing Business” ...

New World Bank/FAO Report Looks at Urban Food Systems Governance Evolving food preferences, rising malnutrition, public health concerns, rapid urbanization, ...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Extreme Poverty: 150 Million 'New Poor' in One Year COVID-19 is converging with climate ...

FAO Investment Centre Director Mohamed Manssouri speaks about the impacts of COVID-19 on investment in agriculture and smallholder farmers, illustrating ...

In 2018 there was a small hog farm in China which was found to have the hugely contagious virus known ...

With the ongoing tragedy of the war in Syria, the refugee crisis has quite understandably dominated the conversation about immigration ...

Environmental degradation is a topic that gradually moved from scientific journals to international negotiations, as mounting evidence from the scientific ...

Central Kathmandu is in a frenzy, brimming with young Nepalis searching the streets for possibilities, biding their time in this ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY Paula Caballero, Senior Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice.  IT  IS ...

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. –Albert Szent-Györgi, 1937 winner of ...