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Key policy actions for sustainable land and water use to serve people
By Homi Kharas, Ashok Gulati, Joachim von Braun
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Important lessons for the Smart Cities Mission
By Shamika Ravi With the 26th UN-Habitat governing council conference (GC26) held last month, the new urban agenda (NUA) has once again come to the fore. As the world moves towards a globalized policy...
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development hacks, and the power of digital record-keeping
By Merrell Tuck-PrimdahlA nationwide innovation in India was picked up by Nigeria to eliminate ghost workers who were sucking the government’s payroll and even collecting pensions. As the digitization...
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New Brookings report highlights pathways to a more secure and inclusive...
By Robin J. Lewis, John Villasenor, Darrell M. WestThe 2017 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) report, the third annual report produced by the FDIP team, assesses national...
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Measuring financial inclusion around the world
By Camille Busette, Darrell West, Adrianna PitaDarrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies, and Camille Busette, senior fellow and director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion...
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Anthony F. Pipa
By Joshua MillerTony Pipa is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program. In that capacity, he studies efforts to realize the universality of the United Nations 17 Sustainable...
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Future Development Reads: Dispatch from the United Nations General Assembly
By Homi KharasLast week saw a major gathering of government, corporate, and civil society leaders in New York City to participate in events around the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting was...
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Who and what gets left behind? Assessing Canada’s domestic status on the...
By John McArthur, Krista RasmussenOne of the most important aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), affirmed by leaders of all 193 United Nations member states in September 2015, is that...
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Even Canada needs breakthroughs to reach UN global goals
By John McArthur, Krista RasmussenIn his recent speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that, “the Sustainable Development Goals are as meaningful in...
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Promote girls’ reproductive rights in order to ensure equitable climate action
By Christina Kwauk, Amanda BragaWhile climate change strategies have been largely gender-blind, the one woman-centered strategy that has captivated demographers and girls’ education advocates alike for...
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Building a pipeline of women in climate leadership: Short-term solution for...
By Christina Kwauk, Amanda BragaIn early June, President Trump’s announcement of the United States’ intent to withdraw from the Paris climate accord puzzled the world. Adopted in 2015 by 195 nations...
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Innovate or fail: The options open to Africa for implementing the SDGs and...
By Landry SignéInnovation should be given the place it deserves during this year’s Africa Week, which is organized on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly Debates on Africa’s Development...
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When will things change? Looking for signs of progress on ending rural hunger
By Geoffrey Gertz, Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Lorenz NoeThe world is off track to meet its own goal of ending hunger by 2030, and it’s not clear if anyone in power will ever be held accountable for...
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Reducing economic and environmental vulnerability to achieve food and...
By Ibrahima Hathie, Boubacar Seydi, Lamine Samaké, Suwadu Sakho-JimbiraIn June 2014, at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union, African countries signed the Malabo Declaration,...
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The world is off track to end hunger, so what’s the solution?
By Homi Kharas, John McArthurThe world is off track to meet its own deadline for ending hunger. For the first time in many years, the estimated number of undernourished people has actually gone up...
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Effective resource management for improved food and nutrition security in...
By Aderibigbe S. OlomolaPutting food and nutrition security into perspective International efforts are intensifying to end hunger and address the emerging challenge of feeding rapidly increasing...
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Addressing the mismatch between food and nutrition policies and needs in...
By Roselyne AlphonceEnding hunger, an ambition enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG2, which focuses on ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and...
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WATCH: How big is the learning crisis — and can we do anything about it?
By Jenny Perlman Robinson, Molly Curtiss“Education is the civil rights struggle — the human rights struggle — of our generation: quality education for all. It’s the freedom fight that we’ve got to...
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Translating competencies to empowered action
By Christina Kwauk, Amanda BragaThis paper draws from evidence of the psychology of learning and theories of gender empowerment to present a framework for girls’ life skills education that links life...
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