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Guaranteeing water security, a priority for Central America
Corredor Seco, Honduras. Copyright: Angels Maso. World Bank. A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to visit the "Federico Boquín" water treatment plant and dam in Tegucigalpa, one of the main...
View ArticleCocoa Honey: A Sweet Good-bye
Cocoa honey is probably the sweetest and most intensely flavored fruit juice I have ever tasted. It is extracted from the white flesh around the fresh cocoa beans, which are wrapped in a banana leaf...
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Counting charcoal trucks by the side of the road in Haiti
Traditional Charcoal Stoves in Haiti/ World BankAcross the world, over 3 billion people cook with solid biomass over traditional stoves resulting in negative impacts on health and the environment. In...
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Paying for ecosystem services, a successful approach to reducing...
Forested land provides a wide variety of benefits: they regulate water flows, sequester carbon, and harbor biodiversity. But farm communities receive few of these benefits. For them, forested lands...
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How a new insolvency regime increases opportunities for entrepreneurship in...
View from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic / World BankPublished in digital portal El Dinero In the past, a company in the Dominican Republic facing financial difficulties, such as falling behind on...
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Independent Directors in Latin America, a time for change?
Carl Fuerstenberg, one of the most prominent German bankers of his generation, famously said more than a century ago that shareholders are irrational and impertinent. They are irrational, he said,...
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The Quito Metro in 360 Degrees
For two and a half years, more than 4,000 people have worked to build Line 1 of the Quito Metro, a mass transit system that extends 22 kilometers across the city. With its 15 modern stations, ranging...
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New model for development: Tackling urban vulnerability and public safety
Crime and violence are still in the top 5 main worries of the world. Globally, one in five people become a victim of violence and crime in their lifetime. But it is not only the cost of human life...
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Operation certification: Social Inclusion for the most vulnerable in Jamaica
Esmilda Woolery receiving her first birth certificate - Photo: Jamaica Social Investment Fund Sixty five years old Esmilda Woolery clutched her birth certificate tightly to her chest and beamed with...
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