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Researchers are looking at ways to help the poor
The World Bank in its report, ‘Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet’ said that it was to focus on machine learning andartificial intelligence models to close data gaps. The bank has been developing AI tools to try to forecast food crises and violent conflicts, and to pull insights from large swathes of data gathered after an aid…
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People are moving into harms way due to floods
A study by the World Bank has found that human settlements in East Asia, Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa “are actually rapidly increasing their exposure to floods” due to climate change. It said that development in areas exposed to the biggest flood dangers increased by 122%. About 6% of land was in the very high flood-…
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Annie Proulx wrote a history of wetlands destruction
As per a report by the World Bank, the world is expected to lose more than 1 billion acres of wetlands by 2100. The report also said that the world’s wetlands are likely to face serious impacts from climate change due to human activities, such as logging, agricultural runoff and urban development. It further said…
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Nations forge historic deal to save species.
During the COP15 biodiversity conference in Gabon, Gabon’s Environment Minister Lee White said that LMICs have difficulty using the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the current fund held by World Bank in Washington DC. He added that it’s slow to distribute funds. He also said that LMICs have difficulty accessing GEF, the current fund held by…
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The people of Lebanon are staging sit-ins in order to access their own savings.
The World Bank in its report on Lebanon’s bank robbery said that the country’s leaders spent decades running its economy like a Ponzi scheme. The bank added that the country’s bank owners should have taken losses when the economy collapsed. It further stated that the Lebanese leaders should have taken their losses when the economy…
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Avert the water crisis in Bangladesh through better data.
A World Bank team is researching how climate change affects Bangladesh’s water availability. Researchers are trying to develop a model that could show how climate change affects Bangladesh’s water availability. This could improve the flood monitoring and forecast system operated by the Bangladesh Water Development Board. This would be enough to supply about 6% of…