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India Must Close The Gender Gap And Make Every Woman Count

In India, the gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or att...

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Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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Power Of Nutrition: The $1 Billion Startup

Nutrition has a color. Alethea Dopart had brand colors on her mind — “you usually see greens, yellows, sometimes orange” — as she guided me through ...

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Maternal Mortality On A Decline, But Challenges Remain

The number of women dying during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks after birth has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, say United Nations agencies, including the...

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World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Add 100 Mln Poor By 2030

Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the Wor...

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Climate Change Could Hurt Global Economy: Study Finds Link Between Global Warming And Productivity.

A new study threw gas into the flames of climate change debates. Three economists from Stanford University and the University of California (UC) in Berkeley looked into the...

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Climate Change Could Hurt Global Economy: Study Finds Link Between Global Warming And Productivity.

A new study threw gas into the flames of climate change debates. Three economists from Stanford University and the University of California (UC) in Berkeley looked into the...

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The World Bank Warns That The ‘Carbon Bubble’ Could Tank The Global Economy

This is great news for the environment, and bodes well for a sustainable future on Earth. But according to Rachel Kyte, the VP of the World Bank and its special envoy for c...

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Women Face Widespread Job Restrictions In India: World Bank

Women in India are not allowed to work in mining or in jobs that require lifting weights above a certain threshold or working with glass, according to a latest World Bank r...

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How Countries Can Improve Women’s Access To Water

Because of water’s multidimensional role in economic development and poverty reduction, addressing the constraints that women and girls face in accessing and managing...

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