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  • Malaysia's Experience with PEMANDU Offers Lessons Worldwide
    World Bank Report Outlines Key Success Factors, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in Strengthening Public Sector Management Malaysia’s experience in driving public sector performance through a delivery...
    Date: May 9, 2017 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Innovating for Growth in Latin America
    As Latin America adapts to the downturn in commodity prices, policymakers are turning to the surest path to sustainable, lasting growth: innovation. “When businesses innovate, productivity increases and...
    Date: May 9, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • And the Winners of the Big Data Innovation Challenge Are...
    Coming to grips with the enormous challenge of climate change will require big decisions with the potential for long-term global impacts. Technological advances in geospatial mapping, digital networks...
    Date: March 27, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • An Afghanistan Project Team Wins South Asia Innovation Procurement Award 2016-2017
    COLOMBO/KABUL – The On-Farm Water Management Project (OFWMP) is the first winner in its country category of the South Asia Innovation Procurement Award for 2016-2017. The project won best innovative procurement...
    Date: February 22, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • In Kazakhstan, Exciting Developments in Innovation, Research and Technology
    Ato Brown, World Bank Country Manager for Kazakhstan, met recently with the team at the Alliance of Technology Commercialization Professionals (ATCP), which promotes the development of technology commercialization...
    Date: January 19, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • The World Bank Supports the Strengthening of the Science, Technology and Innovation System in Peru
    WASHINGTON, January 11, 2017 - The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$ 45 million loan today to strengthen the science, technology and innovation (STI) system in Peru, which will help improve...
    Date: January 11, 2017 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • In Belarus, Innovative Solutions Improve Transportation, Increase Road Safety
    Belarus serves as an important transit corridor for the Europe and Central Asia region. Well-kept roads connect people to public amenities and reduce travel time, vehicle operation costs, and accident...
    Date: October 18, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Bangladesh Strengthens its Higher Education to Thrive in the Knowledge Economy
    Bangladesh’s leadership has long understood that its future prosperity is closely tied to educational progress. The government’s dedication to that idea is already bearing impressive fruit, as the percentage...
    Date: October 9, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Young Innovators Band Together for Bangladesh’s Future
    From huge traffic jams to boats capsizing, Bangladeshis face diverse challenges. But innovative youths can innovate their way to solving these problems by leveraging the country’s rich resources and low-cost...
    Date: June 24, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Tbilisi Business Forum: Innovation and Digital Economy
    “Digital technologies can promote inclusion, efficiency, and innovation,” says new World Bank Group report TBILISI, April 8, 2016 – The World Bank, Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA)...
    Date: April 8, 2016 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Tackling Childhood Nutrition with the Help of Social Enterprises
    When Deepali Sharma arrived at Jivendra Mavde’s village in Madhya Pradesh, India two years ago, Jivendra was severely malnourished. At just over a year-old, his body was nothing more than skin and bones:...
    Date: February 4, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Changing the Mindset – Commercialization of Innovation in Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan’s Technology Commercialization Project fast approaches its completion in December 2015, and in a relatively short time, has demonstrated outstanding results: its success rate has reached 30%,...
    Date: December 15, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • New Climate Innovation Center Launched to Promote Green Growth in Vietnam
    HANOI, December 11, 2015—A new business hub supporting local clean-tech enterprises was launched today by the Government of Vietnam with the Governments of Australia and the United Kingdom and the World...
    Date: December 11, 2015 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Empowering Women through Jobs in the Digital Economy
    The digital economy can provide women with a means of earning a living, even if they are otherwise excluded from the traditional labor markets. This is especially true for those in the developing...
    Date: October 20, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • How an Open Traffic Platform is Helping Asian Cities Mitigate Congestion, Pollution
    If there is anything that affects almost everyone living in urban areas, regardless of income or social class, it is traffic congestion. Besides the lost time and productivity, traffic congestion...
    Date: October 19, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Wind of Change: Digital Procurement Transforms Bangladesh
    Every year, the Bangladesh government spends around $10 billion dollars on public procurement, a major part of its annual development program. In the past, no uniform regulatory framework for procurement...
    Date: October 6, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Transformation for Health in Rural Ethiopia
    KURT BAHIR, August 11, 2015 – Kefale Demelash, a local carpenter, built a two-room latrine for use in the Kurt Bahir village where he lives. Inspired by a diarrhea outbreak not long ago, he built one side...
    Date: August 11, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • In Latin America, a Concerted Effort to Green the Landscape
    Restoring forests. Monitoring the loss of individual trees. Using biological fertilizers. Working with communities. What do all of these have in common? They are all part of a menu of solutions that countries...
    Date: August 7, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Empowering Women through Financial Inclusion
    Sarita Musharin, whose sun-wrinkled face makes her seem much older than her 30-something years,  sits in front of her small mud hut in the hills outside of Daltonganj, in the Indian state of Jharkhand,...
    Date: August 5, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Partnering with Women Entrepreneurs Toward Shared Prosperity
    LIMA, Peru—In 2010, Monica was facing bankruptcy. She and her husband had lost their jobs, sold the family car, and moved their children to a less expensive school. Then a television program about how...
    Date: August 3, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English