Understanding Malaysia’s Digital Future: Thoughts from World Bank’s Siddhartha Raja
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How Investing In Infrastructure Lifts The Global Economy
How China is Trucking into the Age of Gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) carries the potential to displace diesel as cheaper and cleaner fuel for trucks and buses. With IFC’s help, China is leading the transportation sector into the Age of Gas.
Anabel Gonzalez: Setting the Stage for African Success in Global Value Chains
African economies can seize the opportunity to play a bigger role on the global stage, but success hinges on an improving climate for trade and doing business.
As world trade and investment have increasingly become organized around “value chains” — production lines that cross borders — Africa has struggled to reap the benefits of this trend, even as Asian and Latin American countries churned out cars, microchips and textiles for consumers across the globe.
Charles Feinstein: 3 Breakthroughs That Can Help Bring Power to Over a Billion People
Innovation in energy storage, smart grids and mini-grids hold the potential of improving access to power for billions of people around the world.
Amit Narayan: How Data Will Power the Future of Energy
In the coming decades we will start to think of data and software as a source of energy.
What do I mean by that? Software won’t generate electrons, but it will let us leverage the electricity we are already generating in a more efficient and productive way.
Victoria Lemieux: Why We’re Failing to Get the Most Out of Open Data
America’s Tentative Embrace of Africa as Investment Partner
Africa’s economic outlook as a whole presents one of the most promising growth stories of anywhere in the world, yet the U.S. remains under-invested in the continent relative to other regions. When you read a headline about Africa in the paper, it’s still more likely to talk about conflict or disease than opportunity.
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Global Move Toward Universal Health Care Kicks Into High Gear
