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Name: WorldBank
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On the Road - Guangzhou City Center Transport Project
- Length: 27:42
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
- View Count: 40
- Author: WorldBank
Tags: Bank China Guangzhou Project Sustainable Transport Urban World
This video describes the Guangzhou City Center Transport Project, which was completed in 2007 and had the objective of improving the accessibility of the city center by promoting the efficient use of the urban transport system in an environmentally sustainable way. This project was the first...
China: Guangxi Forestry Development & Conservation Project
- Length: 3:57
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
- View Count: 236
- Author: WorldBank
Tags: bats biodiversity cave china cricket d'Histoire Deharveng extinction glow guangxi karst limestone millipedes worm
The northern and western parts of Guangxi have large areas of karst limestone which support a wide variety of range-restricted species of animals and plants.The hotspots for this endemic wildlife is in the many caves of the region. The 'Integrated Forestry Development & Conservation Project'...
World Population Day Warning - World Bank
- Length: 2:0
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
- View Count: 811' favoriteCount='1
- Author: WorldBank
Tags: bank contraception day fertility population pregnancy women world
A new World Bank report says despite a huge increase in contraception globally, 51 million unintended pregnancies in developing countries occur every year to women not using contraception.
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Rising food prices in Kenya
- Length: 3:8
- Rating Average: 4.45 from 31 people
- View Count: 10201' favoriteCount='24
- Author: concernworldwide
Tags: Concern Drought Emergency Ethiopia Food Hunger Kenya Non-profit Prices Somalia Worldwide
This short film features people in Kenya who have seen the price of staples such as maize, beans and oil soar in the last two years. Many families are now getting by on only one meal a day. In the film, one woman says that she often misses her meals altogether so she can feed her children....
Global food prices affecting families in Malaysia - 3 Jun 08
- Length: 1:16
- Rating Average: 4.78 from 9 people
- View Count: 6155' favoriteCount='6
- Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: al crisis english families food increase jazeera malaysia price selvaraj summit world
The UN secretary-general has urged world leaders gathering at a summit on food security to make the "hard decisions" necessary to bring down soaring global food prices.The price of an average food basket is spiraling across the world.Al Jazeera reports on the Selvaraj family in Malaysia,...
Paying It Forward
- Length: 4:2
- Rating Average: 4.98 from 186 people
- View Count: 6539' favoriteCount='11
- Author: UnculturedProject
Tags: AIS America American Bangladesh Dhaka Donation International Jeffrey Sachs School UnculturedProject
In this episode, I talk about starting to accept donations, paying it forward, and what it's like to talk to high school students at the American International School in Dhaka about The Uncultured Project. For more information on my work in Bangladesh, check out my blog:http://uncultured.comAfter...