🎧 Reaching women and girls trapped in violence and conflict
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Women and girls living in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence face multiple barriers that marginalize them from economic life and put them…
🎧 Lessons on creating an enabling environment for private sector climate action
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Climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is an urgent challenge, and the poorest communities around the world are likely to be hit the…
🎧 Part 2: Taxes, the social contract, and financing development
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Tax revenues are a critical source of financing in every country. Especially with increased debt pressures in the wake of the pandemic, and governments…
🎧 Part 1: Taxes, the social contract, and financing development
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Tax revenues are a critical source of financing in every country. Especially with increased debt pressures in the wake of the pandemic, and governments…
🎧 Comment la Banque mondiale peut s'inspirer de son engagement au Maroc pour son nouveau modèle stratégique dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire
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Une récente évaluation menée par le Groupe indépendant d'évaluation (IEG) offre des enseignements pour orienter l'avenir de l'assistance de la Banque mondiale au…
🎧 Additionality in the private sector and the experience of the International Finance Corporation
Additionality is the unique value that Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) offer to private companies in low- and middle-income countries without crowding out private investments. For DFIs, such as the International…
🎧 Boosting Energy Efficiency to Power a Green Future
Boosting energy efficiency is critical for addressing climate change. The energy sector is estimated to account for more than two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions globally and improving energy efficiency…
🎧 Lessons from developing resilient agrifood systems
345 million people in 82 countries were experiencing acute food insecurity by June 2022. Climate change, the Coronavirus pandemic and rising food prices due to the conflict in Ukraine threatened to drive this number…
🎧 Lessons for Future Crises from the World Bank Group’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The World Bank Group delivered a response of unprecedented scale and speed to COVID-19, aiming to address both the immediate health crisis and the economic and social consequences of the pandemic.
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🎧 Lessons from Shifting Paradigms in Disaster Risk Reduction
Disasters caused by natural hazards increasingly threaten the lives and livelihoods of the world’s poor. Climate change is exacerbating the severity and impact of disasters by contributing to more destructive…