Delighted to open the 1st ever ⁦World Bank⁩ #KnowledgeAcademy on adaptive safety nets!

With practitioners from 35+ countries learning together, this program is growing a cadre of leaders who can advance reforms and help make progress towards the SDGs.

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Glad to see the spotlight on anti microbial resistance as a threat to health, economy and society.

Looking forward to discussing World Bank’s work on this issue later this week with ⁦⁦Dame Sally Davies, Trinity Master⁩ ⁦The Royal Society⁩.

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Fascinating new paper from World Bank Research by my colleague sandra Rozo , Tatiana Hiller & Andrés Moya looking at the impact of forced migration on children and the role of regularisation and access to services for human development 👉🏼

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Happy to share details of World Bank Education’s early childhood education #PolicyAcademy . These open and free online self-paced courses are helping develop capacity for better investments. More here 👇🏽

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School closures are becoming increasingly common as climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. This hurts student learning and has long-term consequences. So what can be done about it? Read here 👉🏼

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Catching up with the literature on child growth & mortality for our updated #HumanCapital Index. Learning that the same biological factors that elevate male child mortality, also make male children more vulnerable to stunting. Fascinating summary here👉🏼 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Delighted to meet CEO Will Straw The King's Trust International 🇬🇧with Global Directors Iffath Sharif and Luis Benveniste.

We discussed how to strengthen our partnership to support young people with core skills for employability.

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Delighted to see the Hum Sab Ek exhibit ⁦⁦The Mittal Institute at Harvard⁩ ⁦Harvard University. Remarkable documentation of the resilience of the poor -the membership of self-help group #SEWA -to acute (Covid) and chronic (climate change)⁩ shocks. ⁦⁦🙏🏽 Satchit_Balsari⁩ 4 the tour!

The new MENA Economic update stresses the importance of transparency to unlock sustainable growth.

With the growth of renewable energy – #HumanCapital , gender equity, peace & economic diversification are critically important.
#MENAUpdate : wrld.bg/orsB50RnlaH World Bank MENA

The goal of Universal Health Coverage #UHC is to ensure everyone receives the health services they need without facing financial hardship.

Thank you to our partners and UHC champions who shared why this is so important: wrld.bg/v3ta50Rnx54 #InvestinHealth #HealthForAll

Wonderful to connect with the leadership of the #HumanDevelopment team in West & Central #Africa . We discussed how the #BetterBank can support #socialprotection , #adolescentgirls , #health service delivery, especially in fragile and conflict affected contexts.

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I am inspired by lunch and conversation on #BringYourKidsToWork day. Aged 6-16 years, the kids had great questions on how many $$ we provide, what our money supports, what our work day consists of, and is our work stressful. Great to hear their aspiration to help the world!

At the #HumanCapital Ministerial Conclave at the #WBGMeetings , prominent tech pioneers & finance ministers discussed how to best harness digital tools to unlock human potential across World Bank countries of priority.

Event highlights: wrld.bg/Ji3b50RmsU4 #InvestinPeople

Bold proposal by Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo on how to compensate poor countries for the excess mortality from climate change: raise the corporate minimum income tax rate by 3 points and tax billionaires.

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