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Dec 6, 2024 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi
At the World Bank Group, we have ramped up our efforts to address and prevent GBV 10-fold in since 2012. We can and will do more. This is why we have made ending GBV and building human capital the first pillar of our new Gender Strategy.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi |Juergen Voegele
A new World Bank report, Choosing our Future: Education for Climate Action, uses data and analysis to understand the role education can play in responding to climate change as well as the challenges climate change poses to education systems.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi
What happens when women get the opportunity to work? For Roshaneh Zafar, a service-driven path took her from the international development world to starting Kashf, a microfinance corporation that has served more than 750,000 Pakistani women entrepreneurs. Maithreyi Rajasingam’s job as the head of the civil society organization Viluthu led her to create Sri Lanka’s Amara forums, a platform for women to be heard in political processes.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi
In the wake of conflicts and fragility, children and youth often bear the heaviest burdens . Their education is disrupted, they can’t access basic services, and girls are more prone to be victims of gender-based violence and early marriage. All of this threatens not only their well-being and safety, but also perpetuates a cycle of poverty and inequality that can last for generations.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi |Vanessa Kerry
This op-ed was originally published in Devex on December 18, 2023. This year — with record-shattering high temperatures, explosive wildfires, intense drought, massive flooding, and destructive storms — no region has been immune to the signs of a warming climate. This is our new normal.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
devex.com | Mamta Murthi |Vanessa Kerry
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Samia Suluhu Hassan |Mamta Murthi |Victoria Kwakwa
Africa is young, vibrant, and full of potential for rapid economic growth. All it requires is increased and sustainable investment in human capital. Africa’s young people are energetic and ambitious. As the most connected generation of Africans in history, they hold the key to unleashing greater productivity and propelling the economic trajectory of the continent – if they are healthy, educated, and skilled. The African Human Capital Heads of State Summit that took place last week brings this timely opportunity to the forefront. Here’s why we must act now.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi
Today’s intertwined crises have brought new challenges for the health of women, children, and adolescents, particularly those in the hardest to reach communities. The tepid post COVID-19 recovery in developing countries, along with shocks such as climate change, fragility, debt distress, food shortages and energy price increases, are constraining fiscal space and burdening already stretched health systems. This has meant stalled or even the reversal of progress.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Mamta Murthi
Gender equality is a fundamental human right, a matter of fairness and justice. It is a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. It is also at the heart of the World Bank Group’s vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. However, progress in many areas of gender equality is essentially at a standstill.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Mamta Murthi
Gender equality is a fundamental human right, a matter of fairness and justice. It is a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. It is also at the heart of the World Bank Group’s vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. However, progress in many areas of gender equality is essentially at a standstill.
