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Three innovative approaches for managing disaster risks
When Dara Dotz, an industrial designer, travelled to Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010, she saw firsthand the supply chain challenges people were facing that had life threatening...
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Why understanding disaster risk matters for sustainable development
Risk financing, social protection, seismic risk, and open data – these are just some of the key themes that have drawn hundreds of urban resilience and disaster risk management experts and...
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Working Across Borders to Improve Early Warnings in South Eastern Europe
Kalemegdan, Belgrade - Storm over Belgrade in 2012 – Source: Wikimedia Common A massive storm system brought historic flooding across South Eastern Europe in 2014, causing more than $2 billion in...
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Trust, courts, and starting a business: The case of Serbia
Company registration is one of the cornerstones of a functioning economy. A business register maintains the repository of data on companies authorized to operate in a given jurisdiction. With many...
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Life on the Margins: experiences of LGBTI people in southeastern Europe
At the World Bank, we know that social inclusion is not only the right thing but also the economically smart thing to do. More inclusive societies are more likely to make the most of their entire...
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New evidence shows the true extent of LGBTI exclusion in Serbia
We know that LGBTI discrimination is not just a personal problem, it is an economic development challenge. Discrimination is not only inherently unjust, but “there are substantial costs—social,...
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Improving service delivery through citizen service centers
Photo: Nugroho Nurdikiawan Sunjoyo / World Bank The trope of a government office worker, discontent with their work, grumbling about paperwork and administrative tasks, is a cliché. An equally...
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The problem is they see us as a whole: How Roma exclusion plays into inequality
“If you know in advance that your kid has no chance to succeed in life, you have no grounds on which to send the kid to school…If you are disparaged all your life and reduced to some level that...
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Education in Serbia: From good to great
In the classroom. Belgrade, Serbia. Photo: Z. Mrdja/World Bank In terms of schooling, Serbia has made great strides in ensuring universal access to pre-primary, primary, and lower-secondary education,...
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Expert witnesses: Cogs or oil in the wheels of justice?
The wheels of justice turn slowly, so the saying goes. But can the use of expert witnesses help turn them a little faster? Or are they just cogs in the wheels? An expert witness is a person with a...
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