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Kazakhstan – Kazakhstan’s productivity quest: Unleashing financing for dynamic firms (World Bank blogs)

MARIANA IOOTTY MARTIN MELECKY Around the world, productivity—the efficiency with which firms combine labor and capital to produce goods and services—is a crucial driver...

The unacceptable and intolerable reality of corporal punishment of children and youth (World Bank blogs)

JAIME SAAVEDRA LAURA MCDONALD CHLOE FEVRE MANAL QUOTA QUENTIN WODON Corporal punishment is a practice that remains widespread in many schools around the world. And...

Tourism in the post-COVID world: Three steps to build better forward (World Bank blogs)

MARI ELKA PANGESTU Tourism is among the industries that have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis. Over a year since the onset of the...

Angola – The path to Angola’s bright future starts with empowering girls (World Bank blogs)

MAMTA MURTHI JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CARRET Whether we seek to reduce poverty, boost economic growth, or otherwise increase the welfare of Angolans, the starting point is...

A Practical Framework for Aligning NDC Enhancement and COVID-19 Recovery: Detailed Transport Sector Approaches (World Resources Institute)

Ben Welle, Travis Fried and Mario Finch The transportation sector was massively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; with more people working from home, ridership in public transportation increased...

A Practical Framework for Aligning NDC Enhancement and COVID-19 Recovery: Detailed Forest and Agriculture Sectoral Approaches (World Resources Institute)

Katie Ross and Paige Langer The food and agriculture sectors provide essential ecosystem services to billions of people across the globe. But the COVID-19 pandemic has put...

10 Questions to Ask About Planning, Financing and Implementing Transit Oriented Development Strategies (World Resources Institute)

Christopher Moon, Albert Amos, Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta, Luana Betti and Henrique Evers This paper aims to provide decision-makers with answers to a series of frequently asked questions about the planning,...

What the Clean Energy for America Act Gets Right — And How it Can Improve (World Resources Institute)

John Feldmann, Devashree Saha and Rajat Shrestha Under the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, tax credits for clean energy and technologies are expected to play an important role in achieving...

5 sustainable farming methods assessed (WEF)

Lizzy Rosenberg Agriculture is one of the leading contributors to global warming. To make agriculture more sustainable, innovators have come up with new ideas, like vertical...

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