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How a Week in Rio Leads to an Active Monday Morning
Read this post in Français, EspañolWe came to Rio+20 determined that one outcome of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development must be a plan for what ministers of finance, development and...
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AIDS Debate Poses Tough Funding Questions to Top Thinkers
The question was on the pros and cons of HIV/AIDS funding and the tools were sharp insights and passionate views as some of the most influential figures in the fight against AIDS and poverty...
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Timing Is Everything: Are We Heading to a New Global Food Price Crisis?
Read this post in Español, FrançaisToday the world seems to hold its breath again amidst the sudden hike in food prices caused by a historical drought in the US and lack of rain in Eastern Europe.[1]...
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Celebrating 25 Years of the Montreal Protocol - and Looking Ahead
The world’s leaders set a high bar when they adopted the Montreal Protocol, which has helped protect the Earth’s protective ozone layer for the last 25 years. Even with its ambitious goals, the treaty...
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2.3 Million Lives Lost: We Need a Culture of Resilience
Read this post in Español, Français, عربيLooking at communities across our planet, there is a brutal lack of resilience in our modern lives. Cities have expanded without careful planning into flood-...
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Inside ICRISAT's Seed Banks & Test Fields, Research Is Changing Farmers' Lives
Deep inside the ICRISAT campus just outside Hyderabad, there are two sub-zero rooms that house the seeds of 120,000 plants from over 100 countries and 120,000 chances to change poor farmers' lives. The...
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City Transport: It’s About Moving People, Not Vehicles
Read this post in عربي The number of vehicles on the world’s roads is on pace to double to about 1.7 billion by 2035. Pair that with a rapidly urbanizing population – six in 10 of us are likely to...
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Bloomberg, Kim on Need for Greener, More Efficient Transport in Cities
Read this post in Español, FrançaisWorld Bank President Jim Yong Kim and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg weighed in January 18 on what it will take to shape the future of cities — and cut pollution,...
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Talking to the UN Security Council about Climate Change
This morning, I had the honor of speaking to the UN Security Council about an increasingly dangerous threat facing cities and countries around the world, a threat that, more and more, is influencing...
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High Food Prices and the Global Epidemic of Obesity
Available in Español, Français, عربيToday, we know that being overweight or obese are major risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and premature death. We are constantly...
View ArticleWhy Finance Ministers Care About Climate Change & Sustainable Development
If you want to fundamentally change how countries use energy, value their natural environments, or combat climate change, you have to talk to the people who hold the purse strings. That’s what we’re...
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Fighting Black Carbon as Oceans & Temperatures Rise
Last week, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography released data showing that CO2 atmospheric levels had briefly passed 400 parts per million (ppm) and were close to surpassing that level for sustained...
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Women Deliver: Investing in Reproductive Health
This week I had the pleasure of attending Women Deliver 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — the largest global gathering of the decade to focus on the health and well-being of girls and women. The...
View ArticleStunting: The Face of Poverty
Globally, 165 million children under age 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition – also known as stunting, or low height for age. Much of this damage happens in pregnancy and the first two years of a...
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What’s in Kyrgyzstan’s future?
The problem with the World Bank’s 20th anniversary in Kyrgyzstan last November was that everybody else’s party had happened already.There has been a blur of speeches, gala concerts, jazz bands,...
View ArticleThe Time to End Poverty Is Now
If you saw how poor I was before, you would see that things are getting better. When I hear stories like that of Jean Bosco Hakizimana, a Burundian farmer whose life was transformed by a cow, I get...
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Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Same Dish, Many Different Recipes
The debate over how to ensure good health services for all while assuring affordability is nothing new.However, it has recently acquired new impetus under the guise of Universal Health...
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A Village Far, Far Away: Do We Really Understand the Underlying Causes of...
A while back, I visited a village in a country whose economy has been grown rapidly over the past decade. The country has been moving quickly from its lower income status to become classified as a...
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Annual Meetings: World Bank’s Future Path, Malala, Gender-Based Violence,...
President Jim Yong Kim outlined his plan for a leaner, more efficient and tightly knit World Bank Group in his opening address at the Annual Meetings — and listed several ways changes would be visible...
View ArticleThe World Food Day Challenge: Feeding More People with Fewer Resources
Climate-Smart Agriculture Here’s something to ponder as we mark World Food Day: In the global fight against hunger, the world’s poorest continue to suffer the biggest losses. The statistics are...
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