World Bank Podcast
1) Machine Learning Joins the Housing Revolution
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries where resilient housing is underway, we will share with you the ...Show More
2) AFRONOMICS: What will it take to accelerate poverty reduction in Africa?
Despite the incredible progress that so many African countries have made, poverty remains a defining part of the narrative around Africa. While the share of people living in extreme poverty has come d...Show More
3) The Future of Work in Africa, Part 2: The Role of Social Protection
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old” manufacturing sectors that are susceptible to automation, a...Show More
4) The Future of Work in Africa, Part 1: Can digital technologies really work for all?
The 2019 World Development Report focused on the Future of Work on a global scale, highlighting the real tension between job losses in “old” manufacturing sectors that are susceptible to automation, a...Show More
5) Smarter Subsidies
Doing More With Less – Smarter Subsidies for Water Supply and Sanitation shows that most existing water supply and sanitation subsidies are pervasive, expensive, poorly-targeted, non-transparent and d...Show More
6) From Unknown To Urgency
Quality: Unknown — The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath the water’s surface. This podcast explains how poor water qu...Show More
7) AFRONOMICS: Analyzing Inequality in Africa
Discussions on Sub-Saharan Africa often center on extreme poverty: the subcontinent is home to half of the world’s extreme poor, and the number of people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Afric...Show More
8) There's No Place Like Home! Resilient Housing
This podcast explores the concepts and realities surrounding resilient housing. Through interviews, sound bites, and trips to countries where resilient housing is underway, our host, David Cavell, wil...Show More
9) AFRONOMICS: M-Pesa and the rise of digital financial services in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the share of adults with a mobile money account now exceeds 10 percent. That mobile revolution began in Kenya. In this episode of Afronomics, World Bank Chi...Show More
10) Putting Nature to Work
This podcast explains how a new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including water security and climate resilience. In a new rep...Show More