Despite global and regional commitments to ensure that all children have access to education, refugee children are being left behind. Refugee enrollment in secondary school lags behind host community children in nearly all major host countries, with gaps often more severe for girls.

A massive leak that disrupted Peru’s national teacher selection test threatens the country’s impressive improvements in learning.  Over the eight years prior to the pandemic, the most respected international tests show that Peru made more progress in education than any other country in Latin...

Women-owned businesses around the world have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, closing at higher rates than businesses owned by men. There are a variety of reasons why this happened: partly because women are concentrated in sectors that suffered a greater drop in demand during the pandemic, an...

In November, we co-hosted an online event with USAID MTaPS and heard from experts in LMIC national regulatory authorities, donor agencies, and academia on supporting regulators and streamlining registration processes to improve the availability of quality assured medicines around the world. In this ...

In 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its periodic Comprehensive Surveillance Review (CSR), which considered how the IMF should update the analysis and advice it gives member countries as part of its mandated surveillance function.  In considering the review, the IMF Executiv...

On the first day of the year, the average American had already emitted more CO2 than the average person living in Democratic Republic of Congo, and—one week in—had surpassed annual emissions for 23 low-income countries. Learn more.

In 2022, discussions will continue about the role that development finance has in both reducing energy poverty in poorer countries, and tackling climate change. At COP26 there was lots of hand-wringing by rich countries about the extent to which aid (ODA) and other development finance should finance...