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  • Indonesia Economic Quarterly, March 2015: High Expectations
    Bold fuel subsidy reform has paved the way for the revised 2015 Budget, the first of the new government, to shift spending allocations decisively towards development priorities, especially capital expenditures,...
    Date: March 18, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Climate Change Complicates Efforts to End Poverty
    The photos we see of crops withering in fields from lack of rain or of homes splintered by a storm provide only a glimpse of the damage climate change can do to the world’s poor. Peel back more layers,...
    Date: February 6, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • World Is Locked into About 1.5°C Warming & Risks Are Rising, New Climate Report Finds
    In the Andes of South America and across the mountains of Central Asia, the glaciers are receding. As temperatures continue to warm, their melting will bring more water to farms and cities earlier in the...
    Date: November 23, 2014 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • New Partnership to Help Bring Clean Cooking to 100 Million Households by 2020
    NEW YORK CITY, November 21, 2014 - A major new partnership between the World Bank Group and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will work to spur a transition to clean cooking for 100 million...
    Date: November 21, 2014 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • World Bank Policies Include Screening for Climate Risks
    Over the past year, nearly a quarter of the World Bank Group’s lending supported projects that also helped countries address the drivers of climate change and adapt to climate risks. Solar power in countries...
    Date: August 6, 2014 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Green Growth in Morocco will Protect the Environment and Create Jobs
    WASHINGTON, December 19, 2013 – A US$300 million loan will promote revenue diversification in rural Morocco, improve the management of natural resources and encourage a shift towards low carbon growth....
    Date: December 19, 2013 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • World Bank, IMF Leaders Make Economic Case for Climate Action
    In their first joint public appearance to discuss climate change, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Tuesday their institutions will offer the financial...
    Date: October 9, 2013 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Why the World Bank is Taking on Climate Change
    If you had a life-threatening illness and there was near unanimous consensus among doctors about the cause, what would you do? We know that climate change, left unchecked, threatens the health, homes,...
    Date: September 23, 2013 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Survey: 8 of 10 Filipinos Personally Experience Impacts of Climate Change
    MANILA, JUNE 20, 2013 — Climate change is a global phenomenon whose impacts are already being personally felt by most Filipinos.In a recent survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), 85 percent...
    Date: June 21, 2013 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Changing Gears: Green Transport for Cities
    As the world’s attention is directed toward the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, another global event is gaining momentum. The leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world...
    Date: June 18, 2012 Type: Feature Story Language: English