More: Development
It’s Not Enough to Wait for Conflict to End; We Must Tackle Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Head On
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,...
Countries Commit to Tackling “Learning Poverty” and Accelerating Learning in MENA
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...
UNDP: Reshaping the Global Development Agenda
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 Millennium...
Is tacit knowledge transfer another hype in the development community?
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...
How Countries in Southeast Asia are Working Together to Accelerate Human Capital Development
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...
Develop while you still can
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...
Turning challenges into opportunities: Africa’s industrial development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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...
Pacific Social Development Improving, But Challenges Remain
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...
Why Infrastructure Doesn’t Have to Cost the Earth
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...
Addressing Sri Lanka’s Macroeconomic Challenges
Sri Lanka is widely recognized for its rapid development progress—as
shown by various development indicators—but underperformance on growth. The
country’s growth slowed to 3.2% in 2018....