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Harnessing AI and private innovation to close health gaps
Good health fuels human potential — supporting education, work, and productivity. For people in emerging markets, it is essential to participating in a growing economy. Yet the scale of the global health challenge remains daunting: an estimated 4.5 billion people still lack access to essential health services. Health systems worldwide face worker shortages, weak infrastructure, rising demand, and financial barriers. In these constrained environments, AI offers real promise.
Continue readingBuilding Ethiopia’s Pharmaceutical Future: From Strong Regulation to Local Production
Ethiopia is transforming from an import-dependent market into a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub. After becoming the 9th African nation to reach WHO Maturity Level 3, local production now exceeds 40% of medicine supply. This WBG feature examines how regulation, the Kilinto Special Economic Zone, and research at AHRI and CDT-Africa are driving jobs, exports, and health sovereignty.
Continue readingWhat Three Decades of Advancing Clean Air Taught Us—and Where We Go from Here
In 1990, facing a public health crisis, Mexico City initiated its first multiyear air quality management strategy, significantly reducing lead and sulfur emissions. These results were driven by a regional-focused approach, key regulatory reforms, and investments in data monitoring – all geared toward ensuring sustained and measurable impact.
Continue readingDevelopment is security: The case for IDA in an unstable world
Last month, I sat in a room in Lyon, France, alongside President Macron, health ministers, and global leaders for the G7 One Health Summit. One thing kept coming up in the room and across the two-day summit, panel after panel, in the corridors, and over dinner in Lyon and beyond: the link between development and security.
It is a link that I have been thinking about for years, and one that I believe is becoming the defining argument of our time for why development finance matters.
Continue readingSmall bridge, massive impact: Connecting Madagascar’s vanilla to the world
There is a bridge in northeastern Madagascar that you probably haven’t heard of, yet it probably has brought some joy into your life. It is about 140 meters long, with a three-meter-wide traffic lane and a one-meter-wide sidewalk. By any global measure, it is unremarkable. No tourists photograph it. It is not the kind of place that shows up on Instagram feeds, and no travel guidebook mentions it.
The jobs that emerge from the forests of the Dominican Republic
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Five ways the World Bank Group is turning mineral wealth into jobs and growth
The global race for minerals and metals is accelerating. As urbanization, agriculture, digitalization, and energy needs intensify worldwide, demand for these minerals could double by 2040. For resource-rich developing countries, this is a major opportunity — not only to supply global markets, but also to create jobs, build industries, and strengthen economic resilience at home.
Continue readingWhy Oil, Fertilizer, and Metals Prices Are Climbing – World Bank Outlook
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World Bank Group Report Shows How Digital Tools Can Help Cities Cut Waste Costs, Improve Services, and Build Circular Economies
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2026, Municipalities and waste management companies can use digital tools to improve service reliability, reduce operating costs, strengthen recycling systems, and make better investment decisions, according to a new World Bank Group report, Waste, Reimagined: Practical Guidance for Digitalizing Waste Management.
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Netherlands for the World Bank 