Here’s some of the good news of 2016. There’s plenty.

Europe is about to have more doses than it needs. Now the bloc is deciding how to get the most political punch out of its excess vaccines.

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

It seemed awful. But overall, it was a great year for humanity.

Ignorance about the scale of the problem is part of the answer

Why the World Bank needs to get in the game.

The problem isn't too many new arrivals, but too few.

The World Bank may reverse its hold on a US$500 million education loan to Tanzania despite the government’s policy of expelling pregnant schoolgirls. On January 28, 2020, the World Bank Board of...

Martin Kirk and Jason Hickel published a piece earlier this week on the annual Gates Letter. The core critique is that the letter is too rosy. In particular, Kirk and Hickel say of the Gates' letter:...

In the international development community, “country ownership” is considered a good thing, while criticisims of foreign aid are based on the idea that this is the problem. But only about a third of...

The idea that shavings of public gold sprinkled like fairy dust on private investment projects would bring to life a giant array of infrastructure and services which in turn would gift us wondrous...

The recent 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report offered a dire warning from the world’s top scientists about the consequences of climate inaction: Climate change is killing the pla…

Earth Alliance, an environmental group co-founded by the actor, said donation will help ‘focus critical resources’ amid wildfires

Over the last sixty years, we have seen many changes in what constitutes a "rich" country, but little difference in what counts as a poor country requiring significant development assistance. While...

The Dallas Morning News is publishing a multi-part series on important issues for voters to consider as they choose a president this year. This is the fourth...

An internal labor tribunal found the bank ignored allegations of sexual harassment by a senior official, now a Costa Rican presidential candidate.

The Data Center Will Generate 1.265 EH/S by 2Q 2021 with an Option to Expand to 3.320 EH/S. Marathon Will Own 100% of the Data Center, Which Will Have One...

In the fight for more capital for climate at the World Bank Group, we should focus on the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development alone.

Senior officials from Europe have urged the World Bank's management to expand its climate change strategy to exclude investments in oil- and coal-related projects around the world, and gradually...

Based on UN projections from the period 2015 to 2050, Rebekah Smith and Farah Hani have calculated that prime working-age populations of OECD countries will shrink by more than 92 million people...