This begins as a story of the life-saving importance of roads: Like many children in Guinea-Bissau, Daisy lives some way off the main road. The nearest hospital is 10 km away. Fatinha, her mother, had...
Date: July 7, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Milka Losia knew it was the river’s fault that her brother died. The culprit was the dirty brown water they had no choice but to drink. ‘Our village needs a hospital, people are dying,” said Benson Naitalima,...
Date: June 28, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Many students in Paletwa, the most isolated township in Myanmar’s impoverished Chin state, were hesitant about attending their local schools. Some of these school buildings’ roofs were destroyed by cyclones,...
Date: May 18, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Dhaka, May 17, 2017 — The World Bank today awarded prizes to winners of the #ProsperBangladesh Selfie Contest 2017. Aimed at engaging youth in a dialogue on Bangladesh’s development priorities, the...
Date: May 17, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
MAZAR-E-SHARIF CITY, Balkh Province – All eyes in the class are focused intently on the model of the human skeleton hanging loosely in the science laboratory. There is pin-drop silence challenged only...
Date: May 11, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
DEHDADI DISTRICT, Balkh Province – Shiny new pipelines connect the water storage tank to the tanker parked beside the main road of Karmalik village. The tanker provides sufficient drinking water for all...
Date: April 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KABUL CITY – The school bell chimes and students make their way to the classrooms. They are dressed in winter uniforms, bundled up in blazers and woolens. In the classrooms, teachers hurry students to...
Date: March 27, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
NILI DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – Malika, 40, sits on the chair beside the doctor, describing a problem she’s been having with her lungs. Her breaths are labored and she speaks slowly. It is early morning...
Date: February 23, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KHEDIR DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – Listening to the news on his mobile phone, Mohammad Zaman, 40, lies under the shadow of the trees near his fields, while his son pours black tea into cups....
Date: February 14, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Challenge Local governments in Bangladesh are a key element of the overall governance landscape; however, they operate in a highly constrained policy and institutional environment. Local governments have...
Date: January 29, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Two billion people now live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, 46% of the global poor could live in fragile and conflict-affected...
Date: January 26, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Soaring global temperatures and runaway urbanization are among the key factors making natural disasters more intense, more frequent, and more devastating by the day. The costs are enormous. Every year,...
Date: January 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
SHAHRISTAN DISTRICT, Daykundi Province– The wind blows, rustling the yellow and green leaves on the trees of Paye Wargha Alawdal village. It is noon and most of the villagers are inside their homes, the...
Date: December 27, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Enjil district, Herat Province –Haji Abdul Karim, 57, soaks his scarf in water and puts it on his head on this hot day. He walks towards a canal intake gate, his gray shirt wet with sweat. He clears the...
Date: December 14, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ENJIL DISTRICT, Herat Province – The farmer uses a shovel to direct water toward his farm, which is surrounded by farmlands and greenery except for the bare rock of the distant mountains. Nearby, a woman...
Date: November 30, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
They emerge abruptly from the harshly golden Sahara, symbols of ancient culture and protectors of diverse ecosystems. Tunisia’s traditional oases, longtime centers of agricultural production and trade,...
Date: November 11, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ENJIL DISTRICT, Herat Province – The humid air clings to Alaudin, 45, who is soaked in sweat. He is surveying his grapes, walking among the vines and pruning dead branches. He owns a 70-jerib orchard (14...
Date: November 9, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Every year, the warm waters of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans give rise to typhoons, hurricanes, and other tropical storms that routinely batter the islands and coasts of the Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean....
Date: October 20, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ENJIL DISTRICT, Herat Province – Farmer Mahmoud, 30, and his five colleagues are planting onion seedlings in a straight line at regular intervals at the Urdo Khan Research Farm. The goal is to produce...
Date: October 19, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
President Kim Says Funds Will Further Increase Resilience to Climate Change DHAKA, October 18, 2016—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, concluding a two-day trip to Bangladesh focused on the country’s...
Date: October 18, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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