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  World Bank

  World Bank

  Opinion: World Bank needs to make fragility a central priority in the COVID-19 era

  30 Apr 2020

  As the coronavirus threatens to trigger social unrest, the World Bank has the expertise and reach to help bend the future away from conflict and toward greater peace and prosperity. This op-ed discusses how the institution must update its vision.

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  Global health

  Global health

  Opinion: Pandemics are the world's silent killers. We need new ways to contain them.

  8 Mar 2019

  Complacency is not an option in the race against five factors speeding up the risk of pandemics.

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  Human rights

  Human rights

  Opinion: Tempering the human cost of building Brazil's dams

  29 Jun 2017

  In Brazil, the development of the country's dams are spurring an internal displacement crisis. Robert Muggah, Maiara Folly and Maria Beatriz Bonna Nogueira at the Igarapé Institute chart a path forward.

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  Smart cities

  Smart cities

  Opinion: The smartest cities are resilient ones

  13 Mar 2017

  A city must strengthen itself overall in order to effectively address its most serious problems, or implement innovative solutions. In this guest column, Michael Berkowitz of 100 Resilient Cities and Igarape Institute’s Robert Muggah discuss that by looking beyond the “shiny solutions offered by technology,” a truly resilient urban metropolises can emerge.

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  #NewUrbanAgenda

  #NewUrbanAgenda

  How cities are rewiring international affairs

  3 Aug 2016

  If the 20th century belonged to nation states, then the 21st will be owned by cities. When city authorities tap into the ingenuity and know-how of citizens, remarkable ecosystems of innovation emerge. The Igarapé Institute's Robert Muggah, and Eugene Zapata-Garesché from the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program, explain more in this guest column.

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  Smart cities

  Smart cities

  Development specialists must get to grips with fragile cities

  6 Jan 2016

  Cities are increasingly central arbitrators of politics, economics and sustainable development, writes Robert Muggah, director of research at the Igarapé Institute and the SecDev Foundation, in this guest commentary.

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