All Blog Posts
Member blogs include thematic articles of 600-800 words on books or research by members, or human interest stories by members. To submit a thematic blog write to the relevant TG chair; for human interest blogs write to 1818society@wbgalumni.org, with “Blog Proposal” in the subject line.
| Title | Author | Publication Date | Content | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Security, Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation: Time for Sustained Action by G20 | Uma Lele | Dec 9, 2022 | In 2022, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on many occasions the need to strengthen global collaboration for tackling food insecurity, most notably at the G20 High-Level Seminar held in July... | Read More |
| 17 days Trekking the Tsum Valley and around the Manaslu in Nepal | Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard | Dec 7, 2022 | The trip was planned for 2020 as a following chapter to the Annapurna Trek. In one of the many updates of the project, the Tsum Valley was added to provide... | Read More |
| WBG Retirees play a HUGE role in the Community Connections Campaign | Clare Evans | Dec 2, 2022 | I was born in Washington, DC, and I grew up in the DC metro area. I have loved and enjoyed this wonderful city and its people, culture, and institutions all... | Read More |
| Eating – and walking – our way around Türkiye | Lesley Shneier | Nov 15, 2022 | One morning before the crack of dawn, we stumbled bleary-eyed from our cave hotel, to be taken to the hot air balloon starting point in Cappadocia. The dark sky was... | Read More |
| Playing with atomic fire in Ukraine | Istvan Dobozi | Sep 30, 2022 | Ukraine has already experienced how dangerous a nuclear power plant can be. In 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident took place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) in Ukraine... | Read More |
| 1818 Northumberland Hike: July 29-August 5, 2022 | Sandra Hadler, Chair Florida Chapter | Sep 30, 2022 | Way back in July 2019, 30 some 1818 hikers and partners spent a week hiking in the Cotswolds. It was such a success, at the end of the week, the... | Read More |
| “Yes, We Can” | Dhamayanthy Padmanathan | Sep 30, 2022 | This is a verse from a very popular Girl Scout song ‘Yes, We Can’: “Can a woman be a doctor? Yes, she can. YES! She CAN! Can a woman drive... | Read More |
| Cherishing what matters the most…… | Tahseen Sayed | Sep 9, 2022 | [caption id="attachment_12227" align="alignright" width="278"] Author with PM Edi Rama[/caption] You land after almost 6 years at an airport and waiting at immigration, you know that you have come home! You... | Read More |
| Hiking the Iconic Vistas of Norway | Anis Dani | Sep 1, 2022 | It started off as a lark and ended as the trip of a lifetime. During a high altitude hike to Nepal and Tibet in 2019, our Norwegian colleague, Reidar Kvam,... | Read More |
| My trip to the Canadian Arctic Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada | Alexander Keyserlingk | Sep 1, 2022 | Introduction I wanted to go north to see how people live in the northern part of the North American continent under such harsh conditions. Like many people, growing up, I... | Read More |
| Making Fitness a Habit | Susan Dubas | Jul 28, 2022 | You already know that exercise is good for you. Countless studies highlight the benefits of regular physical activity. It prevents disease, improves mental health, decreases the risk of falling (something... | Read More |
| Conservation of a World Heritage site (Abiseo Park) and public forest land in the Province of San Martin, Peruvian Amazon | Kevin Cleaver and Maria Nikolov | Jul 28, 2022 | We retired from the World Bank in 2006. We purchased and currently own a farm located immediately next to Peru’s Rio Abiseo National Park. This Park is one of three... | Read More |
| Mapping Carbon Neutrality from Words to Deeds | Miguel Schloss | Jul 28, 2022 | Who would have thought that after 30 years since the UN Convention on Climate Change, the gap between the agreed goals, and delivery on them remains so wide, and that... | Read More |
| THE UKRAINE TRAGEDY IS NOW GLOBAL: Impact on food security | Nadim Khouri | Jul 1, 2022 | On June 3, 2022, the 1818 Society Thematic Group on Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD TG) hosted a presentation on the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on food security.... | Read More |
| Hiking El Camino de Costa Rica | Kathia Coupry and Hugh Sloan | Jul 1, 2022 | In April of 2022, nine of us set out on a 10-day hiking trip on El Camino de Costa Rica, from the Caribbean sea to the Pacific Ocean. The entire... | Read More |
| Comity: Multilateralism in the New Cold War. | Frank Vibert | Jul 1, 2022 | Recently I gave a webinar to an 1818 Society audience on my new book ‘Comity; Multilateralism in the New Cold War’, (Edward Elgar. 2021). The book addresses the critical new... | Read More |
| Pricing the Urban Water Supply Service to Please (almost) Everybody | Alain Loccusol | Jun 1, 2022 | Pricing the urban water supply service is a complex exercise that aims at achieving competing objectives. Cost recovery. Piped water has some characteristics of a private good to be preferably... | Read More |
| The Art Market at Times of Global Uncertainty | Andrés Solimano | Jun 1, 2022 | We live in uncertain times: the world is emerging from the main effects of the Covid-19 pandemic but is affected now by the Ukrainian war, rising inflation, slower growth and... | Read More |
| DIG DEEP: Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming | Diana Corbin | Jun 1, 2022 | When I tell someone I have completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, they ask: WHAT is that? WHY would anyone do such a thing? HOW did you do... | Read More |
| Social Development in the World Bank | Scott Guggenheim | May 3, 2022 | “To give you an idea of how it felt then while trying to bring anthropology’s message to a rather agnostic and sceptical professional group, I recall a story from the... | Read More |