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Future of the workforce: the 780 million job gap, the AI reckoning, and the missing link in the World Bank’s biggest bet
Ajay Banga does not speak like a development banker. He speaks like a businessman who has stared at a demographic cliff and decided it is actually a launching pad. His framing, repeated in every forum he enters, is stark: 1.2 billion young people will enter the workforce over the next decade and a half, against…
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The cost of inaction: Quantifying the impact of climate change on health
This World Bank report ‘The Cost of Inaction: Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’ presents new analysis of climate change impacts on health systems and outcomes in the regions that are bearing the brunt of these impacts. Key analytical insights to quantify climate change impacts on health The…
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Scaling up critical thinking against extreme poverty
In three years, the World Bank’s e-Institute enrolled 50,000 learners through small, tutor-led online courses and webinars. Its first MOOC, run on Coursera’s platform for four weeks, reached 19,500. More MOOCs are in preparation, with the next one, based on the flagship World Development Report, launching on June 30th (details here). However, the need for…
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