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November 13, 2023
The creation of a “forest carbon economy,” where countries reap the economic benefit of the emission reduction contributions of their forests, is increasingly seen as an important source of income for countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Brazil’s President Lula is promoting the cre...
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November 02, 2023
Geopolitical risks are rapidly converging, making the world more crisis-prone and precarious. Faced with a near economic collapse in some low and lower middle-income countries, the escalating devastation of climate-related disasters aggravating existing vulnerabilities, and a sharp rise in conflicts...
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October 24, 2023
I was thrilled when I read last week that Claudia Goldin had won the Nobel Prize in Economics. I have never met her but you could say I discovered her 20 years ago when her 2003 study with Lawrence Katz entitled “The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women’s Career and Marriage Decisions” w...
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September 27, 2023
The rapid evolution of the development landscape, amid ongoing crises such as the war in Ukraine and climate change, presents profound challenges for all development actors. The various challenges intersect in unprecedented ways, amplifying the complexities faced by development cooperation providers...
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July 14, 2023
It’s rare to read an education report that doesn’t mention the learning crisis. As data on low learning levels have emerged in recent years, global education aid has swung its focus sharply toward improving test scores among primary school children. Of course, learning to read is a good thing in its...