Consider this blog post to have been written hastily on the back of a cocktail napkin. Not really, of course, as my handwriting is increasingly poor in this digital age. But I’m in acceptance-speech mode, as…
This post was co-authored with Vinod Thomas, Director-General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank.
Can extreme poverty be eliminated in the next 20 years? With much of the world still mired in an…
The main focus of the formal negotiations at Rio+20 is the outcome document, “The Future We Want.” The text, which was approved earlier this week and…
This is a Q&A with Manish Bapna, WRI’s interim president. The story originally appeared in the…
Despite global development progress, some 1.3 billion people are living on less than US $1.25 per day, with 900 million facing hunger. Efforts to tackle poverty are being compounded by the continued degradation of ecosystems and the effects of climate change, to which poor communities are often most vulnerable.
As the global summit in Rio approaches, negotiations are still in flux, but some ideas that could advance the global sustainability agenda are gaining momentum.
One such idea is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are emerging…
EMBARQ, a network of transport experts established by Shell Foundation and the World Resources Institute, creates public-private collaborations between local government, transport and construction firms, investors, air-quality experts and community groups.
EMBARQ, a network of transport experts established by Shell Foundation and the World Resources Institute, creates public-private collaborations between local government, transport and construction firms, investors, air-quality experts and community groups.
What do you do when extended droughts make your family’s traditional farming vocation harder and harder to sustain? Or when your town’s water supply is no longer sufficient for people to draw water from their wells, forcing them to buy water from…
This piece originally appeared on the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) website.
