Policy and planning

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World Bank (WB)

14 entries

Woman wearing traditional dress walking through a field where food is growning in The Gambia.

A storm overhead and a leaky bucket: reflections from the Spring Meetings

Insight, 07 May 2025

Woman from local community spreading seeds with her hands in a field. She is wearing colorful clothing and a red bandana on her head.

Reform of international financial architecture

Article

Cambodian farmers harvesting wheat while wearing a brightly coloured shirt.

Making the IDA replenishment work for poor communities: a test case for rebooting aid

Insight, 16 December 2024

A timelapse photo that shows blurred people entering/leaving a building above which is a big sign saying 'Welcome'

Inequality 2.0

Insight, 26 April 2024

Montage of Kristalina Georgieva, Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The third woman – getting trade back on track

Insight, 26 April 2023

Man, holding a wlaking stick, stands in front of a well full of water

World Bank must get behind climate finance mechanisms that see funds go directly to hardest hit countries

Insight, 06 April 2023

Head and shoulders photo of four people in a videocall

Natural Capital forum: better data for better decisions

Archived Project

A family living in a cemetery in Cebu City, the Philippines. A lack of affordable housing has led some 100 families to set up home among the mausoleums (Photo: Karl Fluch, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?

Insight, 13 June 2017

A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Making World Bank aid sustainable

Insight, 10 October 2016

An image of a river splitting the hills of the Chinchiná River Basin in Colombia, one of eight countries in which IIED worked with the World Bank on natural capital accounting (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)

Accounting for the value of natural resources

Article, 20 May 2016

Children stand on a dirt road in a village in Burkina Faso.

Global land rush: Contract transparency is crucial, but not enough

Insight, 17 April 2013

Invest in farmers, not in farmland

Insight, 22 February 2012

How can air travel contribute to the costs of adapting to climate change?

Insight, 15 June 2011

Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice

Insight, 17 January 2011

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