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October 16, 2023
Children and adolescents worldwide are exposed to unacceptably high levels of school-related violence. We know this thanks to an increasing number of surveys that ask about school-related violence. However, it can be hard to tell which countries have data on which time periods, which age groups, and...
Blog Post
October 16, 2023
Schools should provide a safe and nurturing environment where children are able to learn and thrive. But, in a terrifying perversion of the role school should play in a child’s life, children are often harmed and abused in and around schools by teachers, other school staff, and by fellow students. N...
Blog Post
October 13, 2023
World Bank president Ajay Banga’s declared strategy is to lead with a better bank before pushing for a bigger bank. I hope it works. His shoutout to the dribs of finance offered by Germany and the US toward guarantees and hybrid capital in his Annual Meetings speech today only served to emphasize ho...
Blog Post
October 13, 2023
I've rarely been lost for words at the outset of these links, but watching the news these days really is taking my breath completely away. I don't think I can adequately articulate my feelings, or adequately comprehend how it must feel, so I will not try to write anything here beyond that. It feels ...
Blog Post
October 13, 2023
In fundamental ways, this era differs from the final decades of the last century. Climate change has set many parts of the world on fire and sharply raised risks from underinvestment in mitigation, adaptation and resilience (both climate and health). War on a large scale has returned to Europe, re-e...
Blog Post
October 12, 2023
As shareholders move forward with the World Bank’s Evolution Roadmap, they should take a closer look at the Multilateral Insurance Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and its potential to help advance the private sector agenda which has so far failed to deliver. The current version of the Roadmap includes opti...