Authored by: Logan Yonavjak and Giulia Christianson
Thirty years of research shows that a small percentage of SMEs create the vast majority of net new jobs and GDP growth in the U.S. and Europe, but how does this translate into opportunities in emerging markets?
A group of experts convened at the IFC headquarters [...]
Adrian Ely and Kevin Urama call for a new politics of innovation built around diversity, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
Reducing global poverty while promoting environmental sustainability is the moral imperative of our age.
Introduction
In May 2008, the World Bank Institute (WBI), in collaboration with the Danish Government, Global Development Network, Economic and Social Research Foundation in Tanzania, and other World Bank units, organized a conference in Tanzania. The conference was designed to facilitate learning and discuss concrete achievements on key policies, practices, and actors that help enable [...]
Solar-powered drip irrigation systems significantly enhance household incomes and nutritional intake of villagers in arid sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new Stanford University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The two-year study found that solar-powered pumps installed in remote villages in the West African nation of Benin were a [...]
In July, 2009, 33 senior officials from 19 West and Central African countries came to China and participated in a High-Level China-Africa Experience-Sharing Program on Development, jointly organized by China’s Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce and State Council’s Leading Group Office for Poverty Alleviation and the World Bank.
The program was composed of a [...]
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