I will see you after the rainy season...
and this is no joke. Some time ago, I travelled to rural Nepal to supervise joint DFID/World Bank work in improving access to remote communities. To reach the first village, Dailekh, we took a morning...
View ArticleIn Ethipia all roads lead to development
In the 1990s, the government of Ethiopia knew that a major expansion of the road network was a sine qua non for its development goals―namely, (a) advance the private sector; (b) upgrade and expand...
View ArticleTransit-oriented development — What does it take to get it right?
Follow the authors on Twitter: @chyiyunhuang and @shomik_raj A recent trip to Addis Ababa really brought the imperatives of transit-oriented development as a complement to mass transit investments...
View ArticleMotorization and its discontents
Photo: Sarah Farat/World Bank They say a picture is worth a thousand words. While visiting the World Bank library the other day, I was struck by how many development publications featured pictures of...
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