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15:53<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/" class="childsite">Development in a Changing Climate</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p>Even in the frugal India of the 1970s, where the idea of waste bordered on the criminal, I thought my grandfather was being excessively old-fashioned when he refused to use our indoor water-heater to take a hot bath in the cooler months.</p> <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="right" width="155"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img height="200" align="left" width="150" alt="Lessons from not so long ago" src="/web/20090510072319im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/climatechange/lightbulb.jpg"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="rtecenter"><strong> </strong><span style="font-size: smaller;">Photo © </span><span style="font-size: smaller;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.dreamstime.com/Cammeraydave_info">Cammeraydave</a> | </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.dreamstime.com/"><span style="font-size: smaller;">Dreamstime.com</span></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Although we could quite easily afford our modest electricity bills, he would insist on staggering outside with a bucket of water and leaving it to grow warm in the afternoon sunshine for a few hours. Then he would struggle back indoors with it, and, presently, emerge from his bath to take his evening walk down to the railway station to watch the trains go by. My granddad was eighty years old at the time: a man of many interests, but very few needs. </p> <p>Was it really just three decades ago that my granddad’s carbon footprint was barely visible? Today, as part of my job at the World Bank, I’ve been following climate issues closely, and am often struck by the difference between life in a big western city in the 21st century and in the small-town India in which I grew up. In my world today, many people are beginning to adopt “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/05/tearfund">carbon fasts</a>” during the Christian period of Lent, agreeing to a daily low-carbon action, say, unscrewing a light bulb and doing without it for 40 days. But in the small-town India of my childhood, my grandfather wouldn’t have installed—much less used—an electric light, unless he really needed it to begin with. </p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/node/519" title="Read the rest of Lessons from not so long ago.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/blog/55" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Kavita Watsa's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/comment/reply/519#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_326 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/carbon-footprint" rel="tag" title="">Carbon Footprint</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_329"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/equity" rel="tag" title="">Equity</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_313 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/poverty" rel="tag" title="">Poverty</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4862" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/node/574" title="Informality and Disaster Vulnerability">Informality and Disaster Vulnerability</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="dmblog/user/67" title="View user profile.">Ashna Mathema</a> on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 15:21<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/" class="childsite">Development Marketplace</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><img height="234" align="left" width="350" alt="" src="/web/20090510072319im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/dmblog/DharaviSlum_by_lecercle.jpg"/>Unlike the more developed nations where catastrophes typically happen when a major disaster strikes, in the developing countries, even small disasters result in disproportionate loss of life and property. Apart from the increased frequency of these events resulting from climate change, there is also an escalated risk associated with an urbanizing world: urban areas in developing country cities are commonly characterized by high population densities, old and deteriorated infrastructure, poor environmental conditions, concentrated poverty in informal settlements and slums, unplanned and often unregulated growth,  and inadequately prepared local institutions, which makes them especially vulnerable. <em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Photo by Lecercle)</span></em></p> <p>A commonly cited problem attributed to much disaster-related damage in developing countries is the use of inappropriate building codes, poor zoning by-laws, and more generally, the lack of enforceability of the same. This is particularly the case for earthquakes, because unlike other types of natural disasters, casualties and fatalities from earthquakes are associated almost entirely with collapse or failure of manmade structures. The saying “earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do” is as true today as it was when it was first coined.</p> <p>Hence, the importance of these regulations—and more importantly, their enforceability—cannot be over-stated. But what of those households for whom these regulations do not apply? </p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/node/574" title="Read the rest of Informality and Disaster Vulnerability.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/blog/67" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Ashna Mathema's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/comment/reply/574#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_307 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/adaptation" rel="tag" title="">Adaptation</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_367"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/climate-change" rel="tag" title="">Climate Change</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_248"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/communities-and-human-settlements" rel="tag" title="">Communities and Human Settlements </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_630"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/disaster-risk-reduction" rel="tag" title="">Disaster Risk Reduction</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_253"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/environment" rel="tag" title="">Environment </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_632"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/housing" rel="tag" title="">Housing</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_631"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/low-income" rel="tag" title="">Low-income</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_335"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/mitigation" rel="tag" title="">Mitigation</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_273 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/urban-development" rel="tag" title="">Urban Development </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4861" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/node/483" title="The Reading List: May 8">The Reading List: May 8</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="insidetheweb/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 09:09<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/" class="childsite">Inside the Web</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p>Every day, there are a ton of really great articles and posts on the web that pique our interest here at the Web Program Office. We've decided to start <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://delicious.com/extweb">a delicious.com account</a> to keep a track of a few of them that we'd like to share.</p> <p>Every Friday, I'm going to try and post a selection of the links from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://delicious.com/extweb">our delicious.com account</a> so you can get a quick snapshot of what we're reading this week. Here goes:</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=53635"><strong>Social Media: The Five-Year Forecast</strong></a><br/> Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang explains how we're moving from an era of social functionality to an era of social colonization and towards an era of social context.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/21/creative-application-contests-engaging-developers-in-the-public-sector/"><strong>Creative application contests: Engaging developers in the public sphere</strong></a><br/> With the success of Apps for America and Apps for Democracy, it looks like an excellent way to engage developers is to host contests.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/reinventing-the-book-age-of-web.html"><strong>Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web </strong></a><br/> Tim O'Reilly and his O'Reilly media empire are reimagining the way they look at publishing books, and providing some insight into their thought process.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?partner=rss&emc=rss"><strong>Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits</strong></a><br/> The New York Times reports that companies like Veoh are restricting access to their videos in the developing world because they aren't making enough money to justify the amount of use.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://opensolutionsalliance.org/osa/osaalert(apr09)-tiemann.html?x_lf_kt=2&_x_lf_kvid=b63e6e94-dd3f-4d5f-905b-9ea79a559ad8"><strong>Open Source: The Only Viable Business Model</strong></a><br/> Michael Tiemann, Vice President, Open Source Affairs at Red Hat, argues that the open source model is the only business model that can work to foster creation and "exonovation" and new thinking.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Have any links you want to share with us?</strong> Add them to your <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://delicious.com/">delicious.com</a> account and tag them <em>for:extweb</em>.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <span class="readmore-fill"></span> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/blog/25" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Sameer Vasta's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/comment/reply/483#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_626 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/delicious" rel="tag" title="">delicious</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_259"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/information-and-communication-technologies" rel="tag" title="">Information and Communication Technologies </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_627"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/links" rel="tag" title="">links</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_629"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/list" rel="tag" title="">list</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_628"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/reading" rel="tag" title="">reading</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4803" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/node/497" title="What have we learned from OLPC pilots to date?">What have we learned from OLPC pilots to date?</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="edutech/user/31" title="View user profile.">Michael Trucano</a> on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 00:01<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/" class="childsite">EduTech - ICT & Education</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p>It's been four years since the The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project (known then as the '$100 laptop) was announced.   According to recent <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/10_laptop_flops_India_orders_25_lakh_OLPC_laptops_-nid-56068.html">unconfirmed news reports from India</a>, one quarter million of the little green and white OLPC XO laptops are now on order for use in 1500 hundred schools on the subcontinent.  Four years on, what have we learned about the impact of various OLPC pilots that might be of relevance to a deployment in India?  Thankfully, preliminary results are starting to circulate among researchers.  While nothing yet has approached what many consider to be the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=872740">gold standard</a> of evaluation work in this area, some of this research is beginning to see the light of day (or at least the Internet) -- and more is planned.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/node/497" title="Read the rest of What have we learned from OLPC pilots to date?.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/blog/31" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Michael Trucano's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/comment/reply/497#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_251 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/education" rel="tag" title="">Education </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_70"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/ethiopia" rel="tag" title="">Ethiopia </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_402"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/evaluation" rel="tag" title="">evaluation</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_401"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/impact" rel="tag" title="">impact</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_259"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/information-and-communication-technologies" rel="tag" title="">Information and Communication Technologies </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_147"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/mongolia" rel="tag" title="">Mongolia </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_155"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/nepal" rel="tag" title="">Nepal </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_405"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/olpc" rel="tag" title="">olpc</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_173"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/peru" rel="tag" title="">Peru </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_182"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/russian-federation" rel="tag" title="">Russian Federation </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_196"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/solomon-islands" rel="tag" title="">Solomon Islands </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4859" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/node/573" title="Driving adaptation with effective communication tools in Africa">Driving adaptation with effective communication tools in Africa</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="dmblog/user/53" title="View user profile.">Joachim Ezeji</a> on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 17:47<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/" class="childsite">Development Marketplace</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><img height="161" align="right" width="240" src="/web/20090510072319im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/dmblog/gatheringcorn_kenya_CurtCarnemark .jpeg" alt=""/><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><em>Part 1 of 2</em></span></p> <p>Does it bother you that most discussions of how to address climate change in Africa have focused much more on adaptation(e.g. coping with the storms, floods, drought, sea- floor rise and other impacts that climate change will bring) than mitigation (e.g. reducing green house emission etc)? </p> <p>Not to worry, both adaptation and mitigation are very crucial in addressing the challenges of climate change. However, the onus of addressing mitigation is common with countries like China, USA, Russia, India, Japan, Germany, Canada, UK, South Korea, Iran, Italy, South Africa, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, France, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Ukraine and Poland etc whose expanding economy has a huge feed demand for fuel. For these countries, mitigation is a central concern they constitute the top 20 CO2 emitters per capita (measured at metric tonnes per person). Apart from South Africa, no other African country made this list.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/node/573" title="Read the rest of Driving adaptation with effective communication tools in Africa.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/blog/53" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Joachim Ezeji's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/comment/reply/573#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_307 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/adaptation" rel="tag" title="">Adaptation</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_276"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/africa" rel="tag" title="">Africa </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_362"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/communications" rel="tag" title="">Communications</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_251"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/education" rel="tag" title="">Education </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_253"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/environment" rel="tag" title="">Environment </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_335 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/mitigation" rel="tag" title="">Mitigation</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4858" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/node/572" title="2 weeks to Go!">2 weeks to Go!</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="dmblog/user/60" title="View user profile.">Aaron Leonard</a> on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 18:04<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/" class="childsite">Development Marketplace</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://go.worldbank.org/YCXFS8AER0"><img height="144" align="left" width="500" alt="" src="/web/20090510072319im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/dmblog/DM2009_global_banner.jpg"/></a>Dear readers,</p> <p>Proposals for the 2009 Global Development Marketplace are due in 2 weeks! There is still plenty of time to apply. We hope you take advantage and submit your idea today. The competition, funded by the GEF and other DM partners, aims to dentify 20 to 25 innovative, early-stage projects addressing climate adaptation. Winning projects receive up to US$200,000 in grant funding for implementation over two years.</p> <p>The competition focuses on three sub-themes:  <br/>   1) Resilience of Indigenous Peoples' Communities to Climate Risks<br/>   2) Climate Risk Management with Multiple Benefits <br/>   3) Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management</p> <p>For more information and to apply, visit our website at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.developmentmarketplace.org/" title="www.developmentmarketplace.org">www.developmentmarketplace.org</a>. The application deadline is May 18, 2009.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.developmentmarketplace.org/"><strong><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">www.developmentmarketplace.org</span></span></strong></a></p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/node/572" title="Read the rest of 2 weeks to Go!.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/blog/60" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Aaron Leonard's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/comment/reply/572#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_247 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/agriculture" rel="tag" title="">Agriculture </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_248"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/communities-and-human-settlements" rel="tag" title="">Communities and Human Settlements </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_366"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/dm09" rel="tag" title="">DM09</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_252"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/energy" rel="tag" title="">Energy </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_253"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/environment" rel="tag" title="">Environment </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_265"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/poverty-reduction" rel="tag" title="">Poverty Reduction </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_266"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/private-sector-development" rel="tag" title="">Private Sector Development </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_268"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/rural-development" rel="tag" title="">Rural Development </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_269"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/science-and-technology-development" rel="tag" title="">Science and Technology Development </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_270"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/social-development" rel="tag" title="">Social Development </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_273"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/urban-development" rel="tag" title="">Urban Development </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_274"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/water-resources" rel="tag" title="">Water Resources </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_275 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/water-supply-and-sanitation" rel="tag" title="">Water Supply and Sanitation </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4857" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/node/482" title="Delivering content to the developing world">Delivering content to the developing world</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="insidetheweb/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 14:47<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/" class="childsite">Inside the Web</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/1129055810/"><img alt="IT training for kids who live in the surrounding farm areas of Stutterheim outside East London in the Eastern Cape. South Africa. Photo: Trevor Samson / World Bank " vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="middle" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/1129055810_275417ecbf.jpg"/></a>Blog reader Vickesh, after reading my <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/on-video-players-and-video-services">last post about the choice between different video communities</a> on the web, pointed me in the direction of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">a recent article in the New York Times about the difficulties of providing web services to developing countries</a> and still making a profit.</p> <p>Of particular interest? The decision by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.veoh.com/">Veoh</a> to stop offering video to users in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe because of high bandwidth costs:</p> <blockquote><p>"I believe in free, open communications, but these people are so hungry for this content. They sit and they watch and watch and watch. The problem is they are eating up bandwidth, and it’s very difficult to derive revenue from it." -<em>Veoh Chief Executive Dmitry Shapiro</em></p></blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Read the full article</a> for a lot more examples from other services — Joost, Facebook, Youtube, etc — that weigh in on both sides of this discussion.</p> <p>As someone that thinks about online strategy here at a global organization like the World Bank, this discussion is particularly important to me. One question that I keep asking myself: <strong>how we can provide content and engage in conversation that is happening across the web while also being accessible to a diverse international audience?</strong></p> <p>The fact that our global economic reality can make it hard for content communities like Veoh to deliver accessible content in certain parts of the world wasn't always a consideration in my answers to that question, but now I guess it should be.</p> <p><em>(</em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/1129055810/"><em>Photo by Trevor Samson, from the World Bank Flickr account.</em></a><em>)</em></p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <span class="readmore-fill"></span> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/blog/25" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Sameer Vasta's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/comment/reply/482#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_623 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/accessibility" rel="tag" title="">accessibility</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_625"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/business" rel="tag" title="">business</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_617"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/community" rel="tag" title="">community</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_435"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/conversation" rel="tag" title="">conversation</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_251"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/education" rel="tag" title="">Education </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_259"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/information-and-communication-technologies" rel="tag" title="">Information and Communication Technologies </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_432"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/social-media" rel="tag" title="">social media</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_452"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/video" rel="tag" title="">video</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_624 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/web-services" rel="tag" title="">web services</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4854" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/node/498" title="Education and Technology in an Age of Pandemics">Education and Technology in an Age of Pandemics</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="edutech/user/31" title="View user profile.">Michael Trucano</a> on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 14:00<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/" class="childsite">EduTech - ICT & Education</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p>For some people in other parts of the world, it was the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsblog1/3480234976/">picture</a> of two top Mexican futbol teams playing earlier this week in an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_sp_so_ne/soc_mexico_empty_stadiums">empty <em>Estadio Azteca</em></a> (one of the world's largest capacity stadiums) that made clear the severity of the current swine flu outbreak.  While the sporting passions of the 100,000 missing spectators could presumably satisfied by watching the game on TV, it was less clear how to immediately satisfy the learning needs of over <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/world/americas/25mexico.html">seven million students</a> who were sent home after their schools were ordered closed.</p> <p>Many educational reformers have long held out hope that computers and other information and computer technologies (ICTs) can play crucial and integral roles in bringing about long-needed changes to education systems.  Indeed, many see the introduction of ICTs in schools as a sort of <em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=7E7B7D3F03B7B5F5EE530EE5F225DCE7?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1532737">Trojan horse</a></em>, out of which educational reform and innovation can spring once inside the walls of the traditional (conservative) education establishment. While not denying the potentially transformational impact of ICT use to help meet a wide variety of educational objectives, history has shown that bringing about positive disruptive change isn't achieved by simpling flooding schools with computers and related ICTs.</p> <p>As a result of swine flu, many Mexican schools are experiencing quick, disruptive change of a different sort right now.  How might technology be relevant in cases like this?  Given the status quo, the use of technology in schools isn't enough to bring about systemic change.  But: How might ICTs be useful, even transformational, when this status quo is severly disrupted by some other exogenous factor ... like a pandemic disease outbreak?</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/node/498" title="Read the rest of Education and Technology in an Age of Pandemics.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/blog/31" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Michael Trucano's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/comment/reply/498#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_44 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/china" rel="tag" title="">China </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_45"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/china-hong-kong-sar" rel="tag" title="">China, Hong Kong SAR </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_251"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/education" rel="tag" title="">Education </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_259"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/information-and-communication-technologies" rel="tag" title="">Information and Communication Technologies </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_143"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/mexico" rel="tag" title="">Mexico </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_620"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/sars" rel="tag" title="">SARS</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_603"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/swine-flu" rel="tag" title="">swine flu</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_621"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/telesecundaria" rel="tag" title="">telesecundaria</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_622"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/television" rel="tag" title="">television</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4856" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/node/517" title="Weekly news update on climate change: May 1">Weekly news update on climate change: May 1</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="climatechange/user/54" title="View user profile.">Jason Victor</a> on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 18:01<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/" class="childsite">Development in a Changing Climate</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><strong>Journal</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/obama-looks-to.html">Obama Looks to Protect Reefs From Souring Seas</a> - Science - 4/15/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5926/454">Archaeology: A New Look at the Mayas' End</a> - Science - 4/24/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5926/477">Atmospheric Science: Shifting Gear, Quickly</a> - Science - 4/24/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.pnas.org/content/106/17/7063.full.pdf+html">Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought</a> - PNAS - 4/29/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.pnas.org/content/106/17/7067.abstract">Changes in biogenic carbon flow in response to sea surface warming</a> - PNAS - 4/29/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/4581077a.html">Time to act</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0908/2009GL037666/">Impact of historical land cover change on daily indices of climate extremes including droughts in eastern Australia</a> - Gephysical Research Letters - 2009</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581083a.html">California in clean-fuel drive: State rule says biofuels aren't so green</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581084a.html">Japan goes for the sun: Government pushes to regain national lead in solar-energy research</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581090d.html">New UK coal must be partly 'clean'</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581091a.html">Climate crunch: A burden beyond bearing</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581094a.html">Climate crunch: Sucking it up</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/4581102a.html">Overshoot, adapt and recover</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/4581104a.html">The worst-case scenario</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/4581117a.html">Climate change: Too much of a bad thing</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/abs/nature08017.html">Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/nature08019.html">Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne</a> - Nature - 4/30/09</li> </ul> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/node/517" title="Read the rest of Weekly news update on climate change: May 1.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/blog/54" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Jason Victor's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/comment/reply/517#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_460 first last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/news-update" rel="tag" title="">News Update</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-10 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4852" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/node/515" title="Trade and Climate Change: Challenges and opportunities for developing countries">Trade and Climate Change: Challenges and opportunities for developing countries</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="climatechange/user/61" title="View user profile.">Muthu Mani</a> on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 14:55<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/" class="childsite">Development in a Changing Climate</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p>Interaction between trade and climate change regimes has received much attention lately. While I can think of a number of “climate-positive” reasons for exploring synergies between the two regimes and for aligning policies that could stimulate production, trade, and investment in cleaner technology options, much of focus instead has been on using trade measures as weapons in the global climate negotiations.  This stems mainly from competitiveness concerns in countries that are now racing to reduce GHG emissions to meet Kyoto 2012 targets and beyond and in the US primarily to allay domestic fears of a tightening climate regime. These concerns have led to proposals for tariff or border tax adjustments to offset any adverse impact of capping CO2 emissions. This also has roots in the fear of leakage of carbon-intensive industries such as steel and chemicals to non-implementing countries.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/node/515" title="Read the rest of Trade and Climate Change: Challenges and opportunities for developing countries.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/blog/61" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Muthu Mani's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/comment/reply/515#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_258 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/industry" rel="tag" title="">Industry </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_335"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/mitigation" rel="tag" title="">Mitigation</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_316"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/negotiations" rel="tag" title="">Negotiations</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_422 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/trade" rel="tag" title="">Trade</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-11 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4851" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/node/481" title="On video players and video services.">On video players and video services.</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="insidetheweb/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 09:52<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/" class="childsite">Inside the Web</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p>If you've taken a look at our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/">Meetings blog</a>, you may have noticed a series of videos called "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.vimeo.com/album/85769">VOICES</a>" that we've been posting all week. The videos feature quick interviews with some of the people attending the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/videos">2009 Spring Meetings</a> (from inside and outside the Bank) shot by simple handheld <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.theflip.com/">Flip Video</a> cameras.</p> <p>Filming and producing the series was a lot of fun, but also got me thinking about video players and the decisions we make about where to upload and share our videos.</p> <p>Most of you may know about the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.youtube.com/worldbank">World Bank Youtube channel</a>. Our videos posted on the Youtube channel get quite a lot of views, and the videos we upload are of high quality and well-produced.</p> <p>We decided to post our VOICES series on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.vimeo.com/worldbankvideo">our Vimeo account</a> partly because they were off-the-cuff videos with lower production values and wouldn't necessarily fit with the editorial direction of the Youtube channel.</p> <p><strong>Here's an example of one of the videos we posted to the channel:</strong></p> <p class="rtecenter"> <object width="501" height="288"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/> <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4293778&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1"/><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319oe_/http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4293778&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="501" height="288"></embed></object></p> <p> <br/> A few of the people here at the Bank that were posting videos on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a> for the first were quick to remark about its ease of use and beautiful interface. Vimeo also allows much more flexibility when it comes to embedding videos and using HD video. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://youtube.com/">Youtube</a>, on the other hand, offers a much larger community and is still the number one place people visit when they are looking for video online.</p> <p>I think there's value in having both accounts, and using them for different purposes. But that's just my personal opinion.</p> <p><strong>Have you tried several types of online video services?</strong> With so many of them out there, how do you decide which ones are best suited for your target audience?</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <span class="readmore-fill"></span> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/blog/25" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Sameer Vasta's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/comment/reply/481#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_429 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/blog" rel="tag" title="">blog</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_617"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/community" rel="tag" title="">community</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_619"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/embed" rel="tag" title="">embed</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_259"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/information-and-communication-technologies" rel="tag" title="">Information and Communication Technologies </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_618"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/user-interface" rel="tag" title="">user interface</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_452"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/video" rel="tag" title="">video</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_616"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/vimeo" rel="tag" title="">vimeo</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_458 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/youtube" rel="tag" title="">youtube</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-12 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4850" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/520" title="Wrapping up the 2009 Spring Meetings.">Wrapping up the 2009 Spring Meetings.</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 09:20<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3475824735/in/set-72157616678286791/"><img alt="April 26 2009 - Washington DC. World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings 2009. Development Committee Meeting. Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank " vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="middle" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3387/3475824735_1aca2d19e3.jpg?v=0"/></a></p> <p><strong>The 2009 Spring Meetings have now come to a close.</strong> We hope that you enjoyed getting a quick look at some of the events and announcements coming out of this year's Meetings, and that this blog was a useful way to get quick snippets of information and insight from this past weekend's proceedings.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3476635080/in/set-72157616678286791/"><img alt="April 26 2009 - Washington DC. World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings 2009. Development Committee Meeting. Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank President; Dominiqu Strauss Kahn, Managing Director. International Monetary Fund. Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank " vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3350/3476635080_470ef656dc_m.jpg"/></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/">This blog</a> will stay live in its current state (as will <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/es">the Spanish version</a>) until the next round of World Bank meetings, most probably the Annual Meetings taking place this fall. Until then, feel free to go through the archives, or click through the daily highlights (in the sidebar to your right) to get targeted information about some of the big events and announcements that took place.</p> <p>I also encourage you to visit our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/videos">Videos section on the blog</a>, where you'll be able to find all the short interviews we did with some of the people attending the Spring Meetings, asking them about the Bank's role in the current financial crisis. Feel free to embed those videos on your own sites if you find them interesting — and if you can, let us know when you do!</p> <p>I'll sign off now, but if you have any questions or feedback about the blog and why we decided to pilot it for this set of Meetings, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/contact">feel free to use the contact form</a> or leave us a comment. Thanks!</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/520" title="Read the rest of Wrapping up the 2009 Spring Meetings..">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/blog/25" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Sameer Vasta's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/comment/reply/520#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_475 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/blogs" rel="tag" title="">blogs</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_615"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/highlights" rel="tag" title="">highlights</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_445"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/spring-meetings" rel="tag" title="">spring meetings</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_613"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/videos" rel="tag" title="">videos</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_447"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/world-bank" rel="tag" title="">world bank</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_614 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/wrap-up" rel="tag" title="">wrap-up</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-13 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4848" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/node/480" title="Blogging the Bank-Fund Spring Meetings">Blogging the Bank-Fund Spring Meetings</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="insidetheweb/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 11:58<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/" class="childsite">Inside the Web</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3476960001/"><img alt="April 26, 2009 - Washington DC. World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings 2009. Development Committee Press Briefing. (l-r) Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President; Augustin Carstens, Development Committee Chair, Finance Minister, Mexico; Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund " vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="middle" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3476960001_621c248094.jpg?v=0"/></a></p> <p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.imf.org/external/spring/2009/index.htm">World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings</a> took place this past weekend, and this year, we decided to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/">blog about the meetings</a> and all the events that took place around them. (In English and in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/es">Spanish</a>!)</p> <p>For a pilot, I think the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/">World Bank Meetings Center</a> did quite well. The preliminary traffic numbers are looking pretty good, and I've received some pretty good feedback from people that visited the site.</p> <p>That said, there were very few comments on the posts -- perhaps not surprising considering the type of content and the timelines in which we launched the pilot. Going forward in the future, we're going to make an effort to make the tone more conversational but still keep the focus on providing quality information to people that don't want to wade through a series of press releases.</p> <p>A good lesson learned for the upcoming Annual Meetings this fall.</p> <h2>A Bank of Photos</h2> <p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/1116870437/in/set-72157601423112019/"><img alt="Portrait of a Colombian man. Photo: Scott Wallace / World Bank Collection" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/1116870437_4cc0337f1d_m.jpg"/></a>Blogging about the events did give us a chance to highlight some of the amazing photography in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/">World Bank Flickr stream</a>. Unbeknowst to some people, the Bank's photostream has some high quality photos from around the world, all available for use under a Creative Commons license.</p> <p>You can check out the photos from the Spring Meetings at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/sets/72157616678286791/">Spring Meetings 2009 photo set</a>, or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/">just visit the photostream</a> to see the rich collection of photography that's available to use.</p> <p><strong>And a few quick questions before I sign off:</strong> does licensing these photos under a Creative Commons license make sense to you? Are these the kinds of photos you can see yourself using in various places around the web? How can we make our photo collection more robust and useful? Let us know.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <span class="readmore-fill"></span> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/blog/25" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Sameer Vasta's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/comment/reply/480#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_475 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/blogs" rel="tag" title="">blogs</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_609"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/flickr" rel="tag" title="">flickr</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_259"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22159414~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html">a recent press conference</a>, three African finance chiefs chastised international credit rating agencies for failing to forecast the global financial crisis and challenged international financial institutions to do a better job of monitoring the global economy and of holding rich and developing countries accountable in the same way.</p> <p>The Ministers from Zambia, Cote d’Ivoire and Tanzania spoke about the crisis and its effect on Africa. Mustafa Mkulo, Tanzania’s Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, said:</p> <blockquote> <p>"This crisis has come when African governments have taken broad based measures to reform their economies, followed by significant achievements. It is now threatening to wipe out our gains of the past ten years and disrupt all our plans for further progress."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>More information:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Press Release</strong>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22159414~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html">African Ministers Outline Impact of Crisis on their Countries</a></li> <li><strong>Website</strong>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21990236~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html">The Financial Crisis in Africa</a></li> <li><strong>Blog</strong>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://africacan.worldbank.org/">Africa Can End Poverty</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/521" title="Read the rest of African ministers address financial crisis.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links 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class="taxonomy_term_245 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/zambia" rel="tag" title="">Zambia </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-15 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4844" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/515" title="Bank to give Mexico $205 million for swine flu">Bank to give Mexico $205 million for swine flu</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/31" title="View user profile.">Nina Vucenik</a> on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 00:28<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3476959333/in/set-72157616678286791/"><img alt="Augustin Carstens, Development Committee Chair, Finance Minister, Mexico" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3476959333_db2468ddd2_m.jpg"/></a>At the Development Committee closing press conference, Bank President Bob Zoellick together with Agustín Carstens, who is Mexico's Finance Minister as well as Development Committee Chair, announced that the Bank is giving Mexico more than $205 million to help the country fight the Swine Flu virus.</p> <p>According to news reports, the virus has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53N22820090427 ">killed up to 81 people in Mexico city</a> and a sickened <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/24/swine.flu/index.html">more than a thousand people </a>since the outbreak began.</p> <blockquote> <p>“We're extremely grateful for the prompt response by the World Bank -- such promptness is always very, very appreciated,” said Carstens. “But beyond resources, what is also important is all the experience that the World Bank has accumulated in precisely having assisted other countries in this type of situation."</p> </blockquote> <p>The project will be fast-tracked so that funds can be disbursed within 3-5 weeks.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22157098~menuPK:34463~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html">Press release: World Bank to support Mexico’s Strategy to Fight Swine Flu with $205 million</a></li> <li><a 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conference</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/31" title="View user profile.">Nina Vucenik</a> on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 00:17<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3476960001/"><img alt="April 26, 2009 - Washington DC. World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings 2009. Development Committee Press Briefing. (l-r) Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President; Augustin Carstens, Development Committee Chair, Finance Minister, Mexico; Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund " hspace="5" align="middle" vspace="5" border="1" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3476960001_621c248094.jpg?v=0"/></a></p> <p>The Spring Meetings 2009 finished earlier today with the final Development Committee press conference, held by Development Committee Chair, Minister Agustín Carstens, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.</p> <p><img height="167" alt="(l-r) Augustin Carstens Developemnt Committee Chair, Finance Minister, Mexico; Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank President; Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director International Monetary Fund (IMF)." width="250" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Images/042609-devcom007.jpg"/></p> <p>Speaking on behalf of the Development Committee, Carstens in his opening remarks stressed that "All members of the Development Committee recognized that this is the critical time for developing countries. Impacts from the financial crisis are hitting them hard...The financial crisis is turning into a human and development calamity. Many people have already been driven into absolute poverty."</p> <p>"In this sense, the Development Committee called on countries to translate their commitments into concerted action and additional resources.  We welcome member countries' commitments to a substantial increase in resources for the IMF and we urged all donors to accelerate delivery of commitments to increase aid, and to also consider going beyond existing commitments. We welcome the leadership of the Bank Group and IMF in helping developing countries respond to the crisis,” he said.</p> <ul> <li>See <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEVCOMMINT/NewsAndEvents/22157091/FinalCommunique(E)042609.pdf">Development Committee Communique</a> for more info.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>In his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22157110~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html">remarks</a>, Zoellick stressed that “there is a widespread recognition that the world faces an unprecedented economic crisis, poor people could suffer the most, and that we must continue to act in real time to prevent a human catastrophe.”    </p> <p>“Before this crisis, the Millennium Development Goals on overcoming poverty by 2015 already looked like a stretch. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:22154703~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html ">Our latest research shows </a>that most of these eight globally agreed goals are unlikely to be met.” <br/>  <br/> “No one knows how long this crisis will last. We also do not know the pace of the recovery. The Bank’s finances have been prudently run and we are therefore currently in a strong position to help our partner countries,” Zoellick said.</p> <ul> <li>See the Bank’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/financialcrisis/bankinitiatives.htm">Financial Crisis webpage</a> to learn more about the Bank’s initiatives to help poor countries deal with the crisis.</li> </ul> <p> </p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/514" title="Read the rest of Spring Meetings conclude with Development Committee press conference.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/blog/31" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Nina Vucenik's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/comment/reply/514#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_599 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/carstens" rel="tag" title="">Carstens</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_550"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/development-committee" rel="tag" title="">development committee</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_598"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/press-conference" rel="tag" title="">press conference</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_469 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/zoellick" rel="tag" title="">zoellick</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-17 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-4842" class="node node-teaser node-type-video"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/513" title="VOICES: Edith Quintrell">VOICES: Edith Quintrell</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 18:36<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><div class="field field-type-emvideo field-field-videoplayer"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" data="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4344406&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color="><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="scale" value="showAll"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4344406&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color="/></object> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-videodescription"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p> <br/> We asked Edith Quintrell, Director at MIGA, one question:</p> <blockquote><p>"What is and should be the role of the World Bank in the current financial crisis?"</p></blockquote> <p>Watch the video above for his answer. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://vimeo.com/album/85769">See the full VOICES series from the Spring Meetings on Vimeo</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <span class="readmore-fill"></span> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="comment_add first last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/comment/reply/513#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_596 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/director" rel="tag" title="">director</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_595"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/edith-quintrell" rel="tag" title="">edith quintrell</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_254"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/finance-and-financial-sector-development" rel="tag" title="">Finance and Financial Sector Development </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_480"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/financial-crisis" rel="tag" title="">financial crisis</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_502"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/interview" rel="tag" title="">interview</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_597"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/investments" rel="tag" title="">investments</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_520"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/miga" rel="tag" title="">miga</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_445"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/spring-meetings" rel="tag" title="">spring meetings</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_283"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/the-world-region" rel="tag" title="">The World Region </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_452"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/video" rel="tag" title="">video</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_504"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/voices" rel="tag" title="">voices</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_447 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/world-bank" rel="tag" title="">world bank</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-18 views-row-even"> <div id="node-4840" class="node node-teaser node-type-blog"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/511" title="Improving capacity building in post-conflict and fragile settings">Improving capacity building in post-conflict and fragile settings</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/31" title="View user profile.">Nina Vucenik</a> on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 16:45<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2073350131/in/set-72157601463732327/" target="_blank"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/2073350131_919b040ae2_m.jpg" alt="Young children in school. Ghana. Photo: © Curt Carnemark / World Bank"/></a>Three African ministers shared their experience with Bank officials on Thursday when they met to discuss ways to develop capacity in post-conflict countries.</p> <blockquote> <p> “We are here to listen—tell us how we can better assist you. And please, be frank,” said Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank Africa Region Vice President.</p> </blockquote> <p>Ezekwesili asked the ministers from Liberia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to discuss capacity development efforts in their countries, and to identify what has and has not worked, and how donors can provide more effective support for human development, infrastructure, and public sector reforms.</p> <p>Several common themes emerged from the ministers’ interventions, including:</p> <ul> <li>Donors prioritizing support for primary and secondary education, and not higher education</li> <li>Donors pressing a “one size fits all” approach on countries, trying to replicate programs that were successful elsewhere</li> <li>The failure by expatriate advisors in civil service posts to transfer their knowledge and skills to local counterparts</li> <li>Tension among returning members of the Diaspora and local populations that stayed behind, partly around incentive structures for civil service</li> <li>An urgent need to deliver skills-training and create job opportunities for young ex-combatants<br/>  </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/1128196267/in/set-72157601463732327/" target="_blank"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="left" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1334/1128196267_bb2d192af2_m.jpg" alt="South Africa. Photo: Trevor Samson / World Bank"/></a>Augustine Ngafaun, Minister of Finance for Liberia, outlined the enormity of the challenges facing his country, which has “75 percent of the educational facilities destroyed” combined with a “massive brain drain” as a result of professionals fleeing during Liberia’s recent conflict.</p> <blockquote> <p>“We have very few doctors, teachers and hardly any engineers,” said Ngafaun, Liberia's Minister of Finance.</p> </blockquote> <p>He also noted that, despite the importance of the mining sector for Liberia’s growth, there are not even five geologists in the entire country.</p> <p>Rwanda’s Finance Minister James Musoni noted that even though the reconstruction challenges were daunting, his country has made significant progress since the 1994 genocide. He said it is crucial for the donor community to understand the context in which each country operates, as in some cases the political leadership may not be ready.</p> <p>Ezekwesili stressed the need to build confidence in all sectors, pointing out that “development solutions work only to the extent that the capacities of the nation-state, the private sector, and civil society are strong.”</p> <blockquote> <p>“The lack of capacity is magnified by the stress of the post conflict environment,” Ezekwesili said. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22156649~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html">Story: Improving Capacity Building in Post-conflict and Fragile Settings—African Ministers Share their Experience </a></p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/511" title="Read the rest of Improving capacity building 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class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/510" title="Youth Unemployment in Africa">Youth Unemployment in Africa</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/31" title="View user profile.">Nina Vucenik</a> on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 15:45<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/1118604176/in/set-72157601463732327/" target="_blank"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1408/1118604176_6797152930_m.jpg" alt="Laborer working on an irrigation project. Tanzania. Photo: Scott Wallace / World Bank"/></a>Experts on youth and employment from Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Colombia met on Saturday as the Spring Meetings got underway to discuss the growing problem of youth unemployment in Africa. The high-level panel, chaired by Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank vice president for the Africa Region, agreed that there are no easy solutions to the problem.</p> <blockquote> <p> “Youth in urban areas are looking for jobs alongside thousands of others from the same schools, while rural youth are flooding into the cities looking for work,” said Sanoussi Toure, the Minister of Finance of Mali. “This is a tragedy. Our policies favor investment in education and training, but this investment has not led to job creation.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Key points that came out of the meeting included:</p> <ul> <li>There are no easy solutions to the problem of youth unemployment. </li> <li>Youth employment has to be part of the growth strategy of every African country.</li> <li>Employment policies need to favor investment in education and training.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2628518621/in/set-72157601463732327/" target="_blank"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="1" align="left" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2628518621_ddf1f48540_m.jpg" alt="Portrait of woman. Kenya. Photo: © Curt Carnemark / World Bank "/></a>The panel also included Mauricio Cárdenas, former Colombian Minister of Transport and Economic Planning. Cárdenas talked about the outcomes of two youth programs Colombia put in place during his country's economic crisis in the late 1990s, when external shocks drove unemployment from 10 to 20 percent, and youth unemployment to 30 percent.</p> <p>It is clear that youth unemployment in Africa needs to be addressed from many entry points, Ezekwesili said in her concluding remarks.</p> <blockquote> <p>“The profile of unemployed youth has to enter the way we think, just as gender has. Youth need to be effectively targeted in everything we do, so that they will have a stake in the future,” Ezekwesili said.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22157069~menuPK:258657~pagePK:2865106~piPK:2865128~theSitePK:258644,00.html">Story: Youth Unemployment a Major Challenge for African Countries</a></p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/510" title="Read the rest of Youth Unemployment in Africa.">READ MORE »</a></div> </div> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="terms terms-inline"><ul class="links inline"><li class="blog_usernames_blog first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/blog/31" title="Read admin's latest blog entries.">Nina Vucenik's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/comment/reply/510#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page.">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more last"></li> </ul> <br/> Tags: <ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy_term_276 first"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/regions/africa" rel="tag" title="">Africa </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_348"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/africa" rel="tag" title="">Africa</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_403"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/colombia" rel="tag" title="">colombia</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_48"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/colombia" rel="tag" title="">Colombia </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_586"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/ghana" rel="tag" title="">Ghana</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_83"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/ghana" rel="tag" title="">Ghana</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_587"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/kenya" rel="tag" title="">Kenya</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_114"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/kenya" rel="tag" title="">Kenya</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_588"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/mali" rel="tag" title="">Mali</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_136"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/mali" rel="tag" title="">Mali</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_589"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/obiageli-ezekwesili" rel="tag" title="">Obiageli Ezekwesili</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_265"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/poverty-reduction" rel="tag" title="">Poverty Reduction </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_271"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/social-protections-and-labor" rel="tag" title="">Social Protections and Labor </a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_585"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/unemployment" rel="tag" title="">unemployment</a></li> <li class="taxonomy_term_333 last"><a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/youth" rel="tag" title="">Youth</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div>  </div> <div class="views-row-20 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div id="node-4836" class="node node-teaser node-type-video"> <div class="node-inner"> <h2 class="title"> <a href="/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/node/507" title="VOICES: Ariel Fiszbein">VOICES: Ariel Fiszbein</a> </h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="meetings/user/25" title="View user profile.">Sameer Vasta</a> on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 18:03<div class="submitting_child">On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319/http://blogs.worldbank.org/meetings/" class="childsite">World Bank Meetings Center</a></div></div> </div> <div class="content"><div class="field field-type-emvideo field-field-videoplayer"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" data="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510072319im_/http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4330578&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color="><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="scale" value="showAll"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4330578&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color="/></object> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-videodescription"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p> <br/> We asked Ariel Fiszbein, World Bank Chief Economist for Human Development, one question:</p> <blockquote><p>"What is and should be the role of the World Bank in the current financial crisis?"</p></blockquote> <p>Watch the video above for his answer. 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