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USA – 40 weeks and counting: This chart shows the severity of the U.S. drought (Katharina Buchholz, Statista, WEF)

A major heatwave is affecting the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The high temperatures have exacerbated longstanding droughts. Currently 61% of continental...

Climate Change/Indigenous Communities – Climate change threatens age-old indigenous food systems, says UN (Fabio Teixeira, Thomson Reuters Foundation)

The UN has said that climate change and economic pressures are negatively impacting the traditional food gathering techniques of indigenous communities. These food...

TechInnovation – Blockchain can help us beat climate change. Here’s how (Adelyn Zhou, WEF)

Smart contracts running on blockchains can unlock new ways to fight climate change and to cope with its impact. This approach relies on...

Africa – How Africa could soon start making its own medicines (Alison Buckholtz, International Finance Corporation, WEF)

In most of sub-Saharan Africa, pharmaceutical imports comprise as much as 70 to 90 percent of drugs consumed. This dependence on imports leaves...

Bangladesh/Bhutan/India/Nepal – Eastern Waterways Grid to benefit Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (World Bank blogs)

NATALYA STANKEVICH ERIK NORA ARNAB BANDYOPADHYAY Rivers are the oldest means of transport in the massive Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, where a dense lattice of waterways...

Tanzania – Tanzanian communities unite to tackle the growing risk of floods (John Morton, Nyambiri Kimacha, World Bank blogs)

It is mid-October in Dar es Salaam, and it has been pouring rain for hours. Halima, her children, and her neighbors are worried because...

India – How dowry influences household decisions in rural India (World Bank blogs)

S ANUKRITI NISHITH PRAKASH SUNGOH KWON This is the second blog of a two-part series on dowry in rural India. The first part is...

South Asia – Unlocking and Safeguarding Human Potential Across South Asia (Hartwig Schafer, World Bank blogs)

Samina rose from humble beginnings in Karachi, Pakistan to become a proud woman business owner employing nine people. Her embroidery business helped pay for her...

Australia/South Korea – Australia should learn from South Korea’s homegrown tech success (Alice Dawkins and Xiaoyi Kong, East Asia Forum)

Australia’s recent attempts to regulate tech giants has done little for the long-term prospects of its national innovation ecosystem. As South Korea shows, there...
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