India
The Resilience Imperative: Climate Change in South Asia
The blog post was first published on 3 November 2022 and retrieved from World Bank Blogs. View of stagnant water after low-level flood at Indus River while flood water entered riverside settlements, on August 22, 2022, in Sukkur, Pakistan. Photo: Asianet-Pakistan/Shutterstock In July, I became the new World Bank Vice President for the South Asia [...] Read More
Transport Resilience in South Asia: a Discussion with Prof. Adolf Ng
Prof. Adolf K.Y. Ng (left) talking with Russell Isaac, Regional Expert, Communications and Knowledge Management, ADPC (right). Prof. Adolf K.Y. Ng is a Professor of Global Value Chains at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College in China and Universitรฉ Laval, Quebec, Canada. Prof. Ng is also the Chief Editor of The Maritime [...] Read More
Living with the River: Going with the Flow of the Kosi
During the flooding season, boats become the only means of transport in the Kosi River Basin in places within the embankments. (Photo: Manoj Kumar Singh / Gorakhpur News Line) Living with the River: Going with the Flow of the Kosi The Kosi is a transboundary river that springs from the Himalayan slopes of Tibet and [...] Read More
ADPC on Air | World Water Day 2022 | Groundwater – making the invisible visible
Almost all freshwater in the world is groundwater; we use it for drinking, washing, growing food, industry, construction, and manufacturing. About 70% of groundwater withdrawn is used for agriculture, so now with more than 7.5 billion people on the planet, there is an ever-increasing need for water in agricultural production, domestic use purposes, and industrial [...] Read More