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Check Out These Live Webcasts Today and Thursday
Here's what's happening on the DM live webcasts today (Wednesday, Nov. 11) and Thursday (Nov. 12):Wednesday 11:00 am - 11:15 am: Daniel Mira, Environment Department, Latin America region, World Bank....
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Innovation: An Un-Level Playing Field for Developing Countries
Innovation has always been crucial to economic growth, and never more so than in this era of globalisation. But globalisation can create innovation winners and losers. The new book Innovation and...
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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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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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What's Next for Non-Winning DM Finalists? An Answer From One
Climate change has uprooted 2 million people in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. They can't afford to be a direct buyer of the refugee resettlement service and economic recovery project that brought me...
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Will There Be a Battle Over Climate Change Funds in Developing World?
We now know the price of climate adaptation in developing countries –- US$75-100 billion per year between 2010 and 2050. The recently published costs were explained by their World Bank estimators in a...
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DM2009 Finalists and Other NGOs Must Tell Their Story
With global warming heating up, will non-governmental organizations be major players in forging and implementing climate adaptation as developing countries struggle to cope with the adverse effects of...
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Pledges of Adaptation Collaboration Need a Close Watch
Many developing countries are busy planning to adapt to climate change that is already heavily impacting their people, natural resources, and economies, especially agriculture. But what actually...
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Climate Threats Hit Low-Income Countries Hardest
As the table shows, many low-income countries face the most climate threats, as identified by the World Bank. A number of the most-threatened countries are also in the Least Developed Countries...
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'I Explained It to My Daughter, and She Understood'
If Sergio Margulis didn't grow up to be an environmental economist, he could have, no doubt, become an equally successful stand-up comic. Who else could get some laughs when trying to explain the...
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How to Help Least Developed Countries in Climate Crisis
Least Developed Countries, we know, will be heavily impacted by climate change. Indeed, drought, storm-caused flooding, rising sea levels, and heat waves are already taking their tolls in those...
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'Some Current Approaches to Climate Adaptation May Bypass Local Institutions'
Carbon dioxide -- the chief cause of manmade global warming -- doesn't park itself only in the atmosphere over major emitting countries. So, obviously, the response to climate change requires global...
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Social Entrepreneur -- With an Emphasis on 'Entrepreneur'
We're hearing more and more about the "social entrepreneur" as the development community looks for new ways to achieve better results, especially with many developing countries struggling to meet their...
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A Global Capacity Map -- What If?
Countries are rated how effective they are in human development, governance, and doing business. What if they were rated by their capacity to achieve success in all key areas of their national...
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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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