Every debt crisis begins with unheeded warnings and ends with severe limits on investment
in education, health, and infrastructure among other things. These crises often spark civil unrest and government collapse, delivering a lasting setback to the growth prospects of the affected country.
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Madagascar: $220 Million to Improve Basic Water and Sanitation Services and Supply
ANTANANARIVO, June 17, 2022—The Government of Madagascar and the World Bank signed the recently approved $220 million National Water Project. The project seeks to increase access to water services in the Greater Antananarivo area and selected secondary towns, and to improve the performance of the water and energy utility (JIRAMA).
Behind the Mission: Young Professionals Program (WBG YPP)
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REPLAY: The Way Forward: A Conversation with David Malpass and Samantha Power
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eC2: Country Assessment to promote unconventional water resources and resource recovery from wastewater under circular economy principles to enhance financial sustainability, water security
Deadline: 14
-Jul-2022 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The World Bank is supporting with the Government of South Africa to promote the prioritization and design of investments that leverage unconventional water sources and that recover resources from wastewater and fecal sludge to make the water sector more financially and environmentally sustainable, while increasing water security and resilience.
Re-establishing trust in the digital age of accelerated innovation
Is this the golden age of innovation? 
It has been said that we now find ourselves in the “Golden Age of Innovation.” While it is undeniably true that we live in a time when the pace of technological change is faster than ever before, from available new digital technologies to the data that fuels them the picture is not always as rosy as some would have it.
Raising the bar on debt data transparency
Total public debt stands at an alarming 50-year high in low- and middle-income economies,
the equivalent of more than 200 percent of government revenues.
WBG Procurement Opportunities
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Procurement Framework and Regulations for Projects After July 1, 2016 (worldbank.org)
What You Need to Know About Net Zero
What does it mean to reach “net zero?” A recent report by the Carbon Pricing Leadership 
Coalition (CPLC) explores how the world can decarbonize, and in particular, how carbon pricing can play a role. To learn more about net zero, the report and its findings, we sat down with Chandra Shekhar Sinha, a member of the Task Force on Net Zero Goals and Carbon Pricing and Advisor to the Bank’s Climate Change Group, and Angela Churie Kallhauge, former Head of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Secretariat.
Why Is the World Facing a Food Crisis? | The Development Podcast
The world is facing rising food prices that are hitting poor and developing countries hardest. Even before COVID-19 reduced incomes and disrupted supply chains, chronic and acute hunger were on the rise due to factors, including conflict, socio-economic conditions, natural hazards, climate change and pests.
The disruption caused by the war in Ukraine has added to price pressures, with costs likely to remain high for the foreseeable future and expected to push millions of additional people into acute food insecurity.
In this episode of The Development Podcast, World Bank Food and Agriculture Global Practice Manager Julian Lampietti explains the challenges and discusses some of the solutions. And we hear from a pizza restaurant owner in Cairo who is struggling with the rising cost of bread.
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