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Adaptation and Mitigation – The Difference
There are two ways to respond to climate change – adaptation and mitigation. The responses are not an either/or. Both are necessary. Adaptation, as early as the short term, can cushion people and...
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DM2009 Winners Face More Funding Hurdles
Development Marketplace awards to winners range up to $200,000 -- to cover what is called "early-stage" or seed development of projects. But after that period -- usually one or two years -- any...
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A Graphic View of the Wide Split in Copenhagen
This World Bank data visualization shows how the lowest-income countries compare with the highest-income ones on carbon-dioxide emissions (the main man-made contributor to global warming) and energy...
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DM2009 Finalists Rank Far Down as CO2 Emitters
The 44 developing countries represented among the hundred DM2009 finalists produce very modest amounts of carbon dioxide (the major man-made source of global warming) on a per-capita basis. The World...
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Fragile States Are Hard to Lump Together
"Fragile states" -- the subject of the next Global Development Marketplace competition -- can't be put in one box. Or two or even three boxes (i.e. in conflict, post-conflict, or threatened by...
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Economics of Climate Adaptation: An Expert Examination
Adaptation to climate change presents a cluster of question marks for developing countries: What works, and where? How can different cost estimates be reconciled? How should adaptation be integrated...
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How 'Big Data' Can Benefit the Public Good
Patrick Svenburg, co-founder of Random Hacks of Kindness, tells "Developers for Development" audience: "There's no shortage of big ideas in the world. It's the action part that's often lacking."“Big...
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Innovation Happens When Traditional Markets Fail
Innovations in development happen where traditional markets fail. The open discussion that followed the presentation I made on Monday to nearly 100 colleagues inside and outside the World Bank Group...
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Training the Burkinabe in Building Timber-Free Housing Alternatives
The WB team were welcomed to Boromo (a province of Bales located two hours from Ouagadogou) by a team from Association La Voute Nubienne; a French non-governmental organization(NGO) with field offices...
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A $450 house for only $5 a month – no interest paid.
What’s the catch? It seems too good to be true but a 2009 DM winner, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), has successfully developed a bamboo prototype and payment scheme that is...
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