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USAID- Making Cents International through YouthPower Feed the Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems: Research paints a dynamic picture of youth in agri-food syst...

As climate and disaster threats rise, let’s double down on r...

From tsunamis in Asia and earthquakes in Latin America, to hurricanes in the Caribbean and cyclones in Africa, disasters caused by natural hazards claimed some 1.3 million lives between 1998 and 2017,...

Rural non-farm activities in the Middle East and North Afric...

In the developing countries of the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) more than 60% of the population lives in urban areas. At the same time, poor people are disproportionately concentrated in...

Examining the relationship between women’s empowerment and g...

Contrary to common belief, evidence suggests that women’s empowerment may increase the risks of gender-based violence, at least in the short term. This was also borne out by the rigorous Gender-Based ...

South Asia’s rural women enter the global marketplace

For centuries, women in the harsh deserts of Rajasthan, India, embroidered richly-colored mirror-work garments for their own use, saving the best for their daughters’ dowries. Today their painstaking ...

Technology for Social Good in India

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Mobile-based applications adopted in World Bank projects in India are helping farmers make informed decisions. Technology is making it easier for health workers to track growth in chi...

Blog4Dev 2019: Enhancing the Skills to Prepare Africa's Yout...

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5 facts about jobs and economic transformation in IDA countr...

Economies grow when more people find work, when they get better at what they do, and when they move from low-productivity work to better, more productive jobs. Photo: World Bank What are the pathways ...

Taking digital banking services to remote villages in north ...

Until six months ago, people in the remote corners of India’s Himalayan state of Sikkim had to travel long distances over the hillsides to do simple banking transactions. When they did reach a bank, i...

E-commerce for poverty alleviation in rural China: from gras...

China’s rapid development of e-commerce has begun to reshape production and consumption patterns as well as change people’s daily lives. In 2016, the World Bank and the Alibaba Group launched a joint ...

The Power of E-commerce: Lifting Rural Chinese Out of Povert...

Earlier this month, I met Qi Huang and Jiao He in Libei, a rural village about an hour's drive from the capital of Guizhou, one of the poorest provinces in China. Jiao and Qi haven't always lived ther...