The World Development Report 2024 identifies what developing economies can do to avoid the “middle-income trap.” Lower-middle-income countries must go beyond investment-driven strategies—they must ...

Strengthening the capacity of institutions—including central banks, finance ministries, revenue administrations, statistical agencies, and financial sector supervisory agencies—results in more ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed as a roadmap for the implementation of the Millennium Declaration. Based on the values and principles agreed upon by Member States in the 2010 ...

The way in which we develop the American landscape and its urban areas is a critical component to creating livable and sustainable cities. The footprint of major metropolitan areas, suburbs, and small ...

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Research within this pillar aimed to identify the global impacts of reforms that appear to be a particularly high priority and to generate new research that can provide guidance on the policy reforms ...

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