Children in the Maldives are growing up on the front lines of climate change. As a low-lying Indian Ocean atoll nation, the country is highly vulnerable to extreme heat, flooding, sea level ...
Africa faces a triple challenge in infrastructure services today, exacerbated by the escalating impacts of climate change. First, with a rapidly growing population and rapid urbanization—S...
As highlighted in the first blog of the series, annual average losses (AAL) of $732–845 billion in infrastructure sectors put up to 14 percent of global GDP growth at risk[i]. This demands a...
Although there is general agreement that investing in infrastructure resilience safeguards development gains from disasters and delivers long-term economic stability, mobilizing finance for ...
The macroeconomic impacts of disasters – for example, the long-term impacts of disrupted learning in schools; the failure of farmers to bring perishable produce to markets; or a drop in th...
