How digitalization helps Moscow and its citizens
The unified digital register, an electronic system of interdepartmental interaction, provides departments with access to more than 390 types of documents - certificates, statements...
Reducing China’s Plastics Pollution
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a loan of US$430 million for the China Plastic Waste Reduction Project to help improve...
Famine knocking at the door of 41 million worldwide
Famine is already present in four countries but millions more people are at risk, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, underscoring the...
On climate change frontline, indigenous provide pointers to save planet
Indigenous people living on the frontline of climate change could offer potentially ground-breaking insight into biodiversity protection and sustainability, but they urgently need help to withstand a growing number of threats to their way of life, the Food and Agricultural...
COVID-19 Delta variant has potential to make ‘epidemic curve exponentially’
The head of the UN health agency expressed concern on Friday over the COVID-19’s delta variant, which he called “the most transmissible” mutation to date.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World health Organization (WHO) told journalists at...
How to put people at the heart of clean energy transitions
The second meeting of the Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions took place today, bringing together 25 high-profile energy and climate figures from around the...
Support for Economic Transformation in Côte d’Ivoire
The World Bank approved this Wednesday new financing to support Côte d’Ivoire to strengthen the competitiveness of export-oriented agro-industrial and manufacturing value, a key...
Pandemic Crisis Fuels Decline of Middle Class in Latin America and the Caribbean
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed 4.7 million people out of the middle class and into vulnerability or poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)...
Supporting Green Private Equity Investments in China
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$200 million loan today to support the establishment of a Green and Low-Carbon Investment Fund,...
Small businesses unprepared for pandemic-sized climate shock ‘every decade’
Small businesses which make up more than half of the global workforce were 2.5 times more likely to go under than larger firms in...