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  • When community mapping meets artificial intelligence

    When community mapping meets artificial intelligence

    Disaster risk starts when people — and the things they use and own — are in situations that expose them to hazards.
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    Jul 16, 2020
    Building Back Better — Greening dairy production in the Santa Lucia watershed of Uruguay

    Building Back Better — Greening dairy production in the Santa Lucia watershed of Uruguay

    In the last decades, two ambitions — high-quality milk and safe tap water — have increasingly come to a head.
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    Jul 6, 2020
    Building sustainable resilience for Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban era

    Building sustainable resilience for Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban era

    Currently, the region has 31 large cities, each with over 2 million people.
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    Jun 24, 2020
    Restoring reliable data capacity in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    Restoring reliable data capacity in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    Over the last decade, the number of people living in proximity to conflict has nearly doubled.
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    Jun 8, 2020
    Investing in nature, investing in the future of Belize

    Investing in nature, investing in the future of Belize

    Belize boasts the second largest barrier reef in the world, and the largest coral reef system in the Western Hemisphere.
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    May 21, 2020
    Five ways to catalyze sustainable statistical capacity in Africa

    Five ways to catalyze sustainable statistical capacity in Africa

    In Ethiopia, TFSCB built capacity to analyze economy-wide data for policy advice.
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    Apr 7, 2020
    Learning from the ‘El Fuego’ Volcano

    Learning from the ‘El Fuego’ Volcano

    In many parts of the world, living near an active volcano is not unusual.
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    Mar 6, 2020
    Disrupting Latin American education for disruptive technological change

    Disrupting Latin American education for disruptive technological change

    We are structuring our strategy for the region around four pillars.
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    Feb 24, 2020
    Generating solar power — and self-reliance — in the West Bank

    Generating solar power — and self-reliance — in the West Bank

    Rooftop solar arrays on nearly 500 schools will help the West Bank address crippling electricity shortages.
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    Feb 18, 2020
    Education for all: Making education inclusive, accessible to Uganda’s children with special needs

    Education for all: Making education inclusive, accessible to Uganda’s children with special needs

    Approximately 2.5 million children in Uganda live with some form of disability.
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    Feb 13, 2020
    Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development

    Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development

    Satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on the ground.
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    Jan 13, 2020
    Bhutan: Statistics and the pursuit of happiness

    Bhutan: Statistics and the pursuit of happiness

    By Ankur Nagar
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    Dec 9, 2019
    85 million reasons to prioritize disability in disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

    85 million reasons to prioritize disability in disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

    By Emily Olivia Bartels Bland
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    Dec 3, 2019
    Which countries reduced poverty rates the most?

    Which countries reduced poverty rates the most?

    By Miyoko Asai, Daniel Mahler, Silvia Malgioglio, Ambar Narayan and Minh Cong Nguyen
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    Nov 13, 2019
    Top 10 countries with the highest mean exposure to ambient pollution

    Top 10 countries with the highest mean exposure to ambient pollution

    Nepal has more than double the world average.
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    Sep 30, 2019
    How to invest in the data revolution

    How to invest in the data revolution

    High-quality statistics are an essential tool to picture the terrain of the economy and its diverse inhabitants.
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    Sep 25, 2019
    How can Bangladesh’s micro, small, and medium businesses thrive?

    How can Bangladesh’s micro, small, and medium businesses thrive?

    Close to 99% of non-farm enterprises in Bangladesh are MSMEs. In 2013, they created over 20 million jobs.
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    Sep 25, 2019
    15,000 children, 800 women still die every day mostly of preventable or treatable causes

    15,000 children, 800 women still die every day mostly of preventable or treatable causes

    In 2018, around 8 in 10 under-5 deaths occurred in just two regions: Sub-Saharan Africa (54%) and South Asia (28%).
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    Sep 19, 2019
    With a changing nature of work, a robust set of protections is needed

    With a changing nature of work, a robust set of protections is needed

    To prepare workers for the future of work, governments should protect workers for change, not from change.
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    Sep 17, 2019
    Harvesting prosperity through innovation and technology in agriculture

    Harvesting prosperity through innovation and technology in agriculture

    Agricultural innovation and technology hold the key to poverty reduction in developing countries.
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    Sep 16, 2019
    When a hurricane strikes, diseases know no borders

    When a hurricane strikes, diseases know no borders

    There is a silent threat that lurks behind natural hazards: the risk of disease transmission.
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    Sep 13, 2019
    Boosting growth and creating jobs through digital transformation in the Mashreq

    Boosting growth and creating jobs through digital transformation in the Mashreq

    Implementing reforms would position the Mashreq region to become a digital hub for the Middle East and North Africa.
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    Sep 10, 2019
    5 things to know about gender equality and human capital

    5 things to know about gender equality and human capital

    Human capital for all: are we there yet? Drawing on data from the World Bank Gender Data Portal, we present these five facts.
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    Sep 6, 2019
    In Search of better agriculture and food sector outcomes in Punjab Province

    In Search of better agriculture and food sector outcomes in Punjab Province

    A five-year program seeks to empower small scale farmers and strengthen markets in Punjab province in Pakistan
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    Sep 4, 2019
    Is education ready to work in data-intensive environments?

    Is education ready to work in data-intensive environments?

    The availability of good data can help lead to making good decisions. This is true in education, as it is in other sectors.
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    Sep 3, 2019
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