The world's worst nuclear accident occurred in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, releasing at least 100 times as much radiation as the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most affected country was Belarus, for which the environmental, health, and other consequences of the Chernobyl...

Technology and data are integral to daily life. As health systems face increasing demands to deliver new, more, better, and seamless services affordable to all people, data and technology are essential. With the potential and perils of innovations like artificial intelligence the future of...

The World Bank is in the initial stages of developing a new annual series of World Bank Country Briefs. Tanzania- the second report in the series - will be published in the winter of 2009. These short, country-specific reports examine the economic, social, environmental, and business landscape...