As much as researchers try to isolate the factors of success in controlling corruption,
whether it be at a national scale or that of a particular organization, there is always a residual unexplained element. It may be attributed to culture, systems, or other factors, but one catalytic ingredient is almost always leadership.
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We can’t have a world without poverty in a world with plastic pollution
When future generations share the story of plastic pollution, it will include graphic images of 
turtles choking on plastic debris, zooming out to show beaches and communities laden with trash, and panning to medical reports showing microplastic in the average person’s bloodstream. This is a story that started as an environmental crisis, and quickly became an economic and health crisis. And it’s a story that intersects with the triple planetary crises we are grappling with today: biodiversity, climate, and pollution. We are on the brink of writing the next important chapter in this story.
Climate Change in Africa
How the private sector is rising to meet the challenges of a global crisis
Across Africa, the private sector is rising to the pressing challenges posed by the 
global climate crisis.
From housing and energy to transport and agriculture, businesses on the continent are delivering strategies, technologies, and projects that are reducing the human impact on the environment, while supporting jobs, reducing poverty, and furthering development.
Investments in Africa
These are certainly challenging times. And in these challenging times, in Africa, the private 
sector is doing interesting things.
The nine stories in this second edition of IFC Insights Africa, published for the 2023 Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, showcase the innovative ways African businesses—both large and small—are addressing some of the continent’s most pressing challenges, and improving lives and creating jobs while doing it.
Africa will remain poor unless it uses more energy
Greenhouse-gas emissions south of the Sahara are tiny
A window seat in a helicopter flying south-west from Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, offers an otherworldly diorama. The landscape shifts from earthly desert to Mars-red dunes, then to moonscape as the chopper nears Luderitz. In the early 1900s this tiny port was the hub for a diamond boom that brought the art-nouveau mansions that perch on the town’s slopes. More than a century on, Namibia hopes that the area will again bring riches, this time from sun, wind and land, by hosting one of Africa’s largest renewable-energy projects.
A transformed fertilizer market is needed in response to the food crisis in Africa
One clear message from my dozen meetings last week with African leaders who were in
Washington for a summit with the U.S. government was that fertilizer prices are out of reach for most farmers, putting the crop cycle and rural stability at risk. One key obstacle to food production in many developing countries is access to fertilizers, which enrich the soil with the nutrients needed for healthy crops. Sufficient primary raw materials – nitrogen, potash, phosphate, and natural gas – and fertilizer production facilities are essential to farmers across the developing world, but high fertilizer prices are blocking the 2023 and 2024 crop cycle.
Journey into the Congo Basin – The Lungs of Africa and Beating Heart of the World
STORY HIGHLIGHTS 
- Spanning over six countries, the Congo Basin is the world’s largest carbon sink.
- In the run-up to the Africa COP-27, Central African voices are calling for adaptation. Listen to voices of local climate champions in an immersive VR journey into the Congo Basin.
- Together with governments, regional initiatives such as Blue Fund for the Congo Basin, and partners such as the Central African Forest Initiative, Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, Forest Investment Program, Global Environment Facility, PROGREEN, and REDD+, the World Bank is committed to supporting forest-smart development in the Congo Basin, putting people at the center.
Empower HER to address food and nutrition security in Africa
Food price inflation exceeds 
overall inflation in most countries, and at least 123 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will be in food crisis by the end of the year. This is partly due to lack of investments in domestic food production, exacerbated by climatic shocks, the COVID-19 crisis, and impacts of the war in Ukraine.
Invisible Bonds: resilience building in the horn of Africa’s borderlands
It is often said that “a picture is worth a thousand words.“ This is particularly the case in the
Horn of Africa’s (HoA) borderlands, where images can send an unequivocal message as to the value of water both as part of local and regional approaches to resilience building.
Maps and the use of geographical information systems (GIS) are also key tools in understanding the value of ‘unseen’ resources such as groundwater, a topic that will be at the forefront of the discussions among international water experts at the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Leaving no country behind: Africa’s pathbreaking collective action on vaccines
As the health systems of countries across Africa are put under increasing pressure by new 
waves of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to step up vaccination efforts. Accelerating equitable access to vaccines is essential for economic recovery and saving lives in Africa.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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