Climate Change: Get Ready to Adapt!
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s recent Washington Post op-ed “Make Climate Change a Priority” warned that “global warming imperils all of the development gains we have made”. Jim…
Trade and Climate Change: Handle with Care
Over the past several decades international trade has expanded dramatically. Today, the volume of world trade is nearly 32 times greater than its level in 1950, and the ratio…
An Inconvenient Truth for Latin America
The causes and effects of climate change are better known today than ever before. Whether it is world leaders meeting to discuss climate policy in Cancun or Copenhagen, Al…
Sichuan Province after 2008 earthquake. China
Macro-Disasters
Earlier this month, Japan experienced one of the worst natural disasters in its history, an earthquake and subsequent tsunami that claimed the lives of thousands of people and drastically…
To Address Climate Change We Need to Measure Poverty Better
Increasing food and oil prices are making life miserable for millions of people. According to our World Bank estimates, the food price hike since last July has already pushed…
Biofuels and Development: the Third Dividend
The growing world interest in biofuels in the past few years can be explained by several factors. High crude oil prices, local and global environmental impacts of fossil fuels,…