As I continue to prepare for my fact-finding trip to Bangladesh (and hopefully Myanmar) in December, I was pleased to review a comprehensive review of the situation: https://social.shorthand.com/devex...
Wow, what a rush the last 2 months have been. I have been studying the effects of war on young minds over the last few weeks. I have been looking at how war is so horrible that it is so difficult to...
About 15 employees of the Finance Secretariat and the Local Governance Secretariat of the City of Porto Alegre participated on Tuesday, 27, in the sharing session of the World Bank's Creditworthiness ...
The next version of the Public-Private Partnership Reference Guide is being drafted for release in 2017. https://ppp.worldbank.org/public-private-partnership/library/public-private-partnerships-refere...
We are happy to announce that the Municipal Finance and Creditworthiness Academy for Turkey has begun! The Academy will run from April 10 to April 15 in Ankara and it's organized in partnership with...
Today the report “Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who, and How” was presented in Washington DC. The report was prepared by the World Bank Group with funding from the Competitive Industri...
By Luis Fontanals Jaumá Tecnically in a supposedly intelligent city four specific networks interact: the transport and communication network, the wat...
Dear Community Members, with the Paris Climate Conference under way, I believe you'll find the article below very interesting. It demonstrates the importance of our work to facilitate financing for cl...
Introducing the new online toolkit on City Creditworthiness. It's a quick way to identify challenges to your city's creditworthiness and, at the same time, to plan corrective actions. Please let us kn...
Introducing the new online toolkit on City Creditworthiness. It's a quick way to identify challenges to your city's creditworthiness and, at the same time, to plan corrective actions. Please let us kn...
The occasion for this blog is the attached 4-page paper by Rajesh K. Advani, Scaling Up Blended Financing of Water and Sanitation Investments in Kenya (World Bank, 2015). As municipalities in emerging...
To all my colleagues and whoever is interested. I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming e. learning course in Municipal Finances. That course is good opportunity to accumulate our knowledg...