As all eyes, hearts and minds focus on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) garnered attention on Tuesday when a new UN report revealed...
Every day across the Middle East and North Africa, the World Bank is focused on one overarching goal: to end poverty, in all of its forms,...
Recognizing the very low learning outcomes, and the need to change the way education is delivered as critical to the future development of the Middle East...
The establishment of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ushered a new era during the course of United Nations (UNs) exemplary journey. In September 2000 at the...
Multilateral development banks put a lot of currency on knowledge sharing to spur innovation and help countries leapfrog development. At the same time, they find it...
In their decades-long efforts to spur strong economic growth and significantly reduce poverty, countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) also successfully improved education...
The last week saw the United Nations General Assembly as the focal point for global affairs, with the center stage given to the confrontation between a...
When world leaders gathered in New York for the 70th session of the General Assembly in 2016, and proclaimed the period 2016-2025 as the Third Industrial...
Lessons from the impact of the global economic crisis a decade ago, plus a sustained period of economic growth, has helped to drive substantial social development...
Here’s a statistic: 75 percent of the infrastructure that will be required globally in 2050 has yet to be built. That sounds daunting, but the truth...