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Shaping climate-resilient development September 2009
Societies have a window of opportunity today: a chance to put in place workable, cost-effective programs that greatly improve their levels of climate adaptation and in so doing boost sustainable development.
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Creating change at scale through public-private partnerships September 2009
The Diconsa financial services partnership provides access to government benefits and financial services for the hardest to reach of Mexico’s rural poor. Several key lessons have emerged from the organization's efforts--lessons that can and should be applied to other partnerships to support their success.
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Half the world is unbanked
March 2009
New research finds that more than half the world’s adults do not use formal or semi-formal financial services to save or borrow.
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Changing the fortunes of America's workforce: A human capital challenge
July 2009
Unless the mass of America’s workers can develop new skills over the next ten years, the nation risks another period in which growth resumes, but income dispersion persists, with Americans in the bottom- and middle-earning income clusters never really benefiting from the recovery.
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New vistas in financial services: Lessons from international experiences
April 2008
In India, there are a number of areas where innovation can encourage private, public, and social sector participation in order to take financial inclusion to scale.
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Sustainable health insurance: Global perspective for India
November 2007
Given its size and stage of development, India faces both the opportunity and challenge to develop its own approach to providing health insurance coverage to a significantly larger number of people, learning from relevant international lessons but also avoiding some of the costly mistakes made by others.
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Biofuels: Less of a silver bullet than a silver lining
October 2007
Is the expansion of biofuels a boon or a bane?
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Developing a new rural payments system in China
May 2007
China could provide itself with a rural payments system cheaply and quickly by taking advantage of an existing technology and infrastructure.
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Harvesting Latin America's agribusiness opportunity
March 2007
Argentina and Brazil are already agricultural giants. But the best local companies are far in advance of the rest.
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Public-private partnerships as a development engine
September 2005
Business and government should be partners, not rivals—let alone enemies.
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