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Global Financing Facility and a new era for development finance
This week at the Third International Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, we’ve seen the birth of a new era in global health financing. The World Bank Group, together with our...
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Senegal shifts its thinking: Rural water delivery moves to private operators
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Overnight success takes years, as the saying goes – and that’s certainly the case for the delivery of water to rural regions of Senegal. On July 2, 2015, the Government of...
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Senegal shifts its thinking: Context is everything
Editor's note: this is the second in a two-part series. Click here to read the first part, "Senegal shifts its thinking: Rural water delivery moves to private operators." Photo: flickr/Julien Harnels...
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Also available in: Français | العربية A boat trip from Port Elizabeth to Kingstown, in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a one-hour trip that locals take several times a...
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Using climate smart agriculture to build farmers’ resilience in Senegal
Mamadou Faye is a sorghum farmer in Pointe-Sarene, Senegal. Thanks to the West African Productivity Program, he was able to grow healthy stalks of sorghum despite erratic rainfall. World Bank /...
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Are citizen-led assessments raising learning levels?
Citizen-led assessments (CLAs) emerged in India in 2005 as a way to raise awareness and advocacy around low learning levels, and to act as a force for bottom-up accountability and action that would...
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Four ways governments are making girls’ lives better
Also available in: العربية As the International Day of the Girl Child is coming up on October 11, it reminds us of an important role governments can play to help girls lead their own lives....
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Unleashing private investment in renewable energy
More than 700 million people live in extreme poverty around the world. If that number seems daunting, then consider this: 1.1 billion people – more than three times the population of the United States...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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The reforms behind the Doing Business rankings
In Mozambique in 2003, it took an entrepreneur 168 days to start a business. Today, it takes only 19 days. That kind of transformation has major implications for ambitious men and women who are...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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Four ways governments are making girls’ lives better
Also available in: العربية As the International Day of the Girl Child is coming up on October 11, it reminds us of an important role governments can play to help girls lead their own lives....
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Four ways governments are making girls’ lives better
Also available in: العربية As the International Day of the Girl Child is coming up on October 11, it reminds us of an important role governments can play to help girls lead their own lives....
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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Evading the Family Tax: A Costly Hide-and-Seek Strategy Guest Post by Marie...
This is the twelfth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. Joint work with Karine Marazyan and Paola Villar“Saving? In Senegal, you don't have the possibility to save! Because...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
Also available in: French Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank. This week, officials from finance ministries and leaders of the accounting profession from across Francophone Africa will gather in Dakar,...
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A conference to improve public finance management in Francophone Africa
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