This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fragile states are at the center of today’s global development crisis. By 2030, an estimated 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor will live in these perilous places. While international…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On December 4, 2000, the United Nations declared December 18 as International Migrants Day. The U.N. did so to recognize the increasing number of migrants around the world and to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One year ago, NGO executives and aid agency leaders were imagining what Brexit and a newly elected President Donald Trump might mean for their work and for the world. Today…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Private sector funding of drugs and vaccines designed to help people in the developing world lags what is needed to deal with illnesses. There has been considerable progress in fighting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One year ago, NGO executives and aid agency leaders were imagining what Brexit and a newly elected President Donald Trump might mean for their work and for the world. Today…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As 2018 gets underway, the United Nations Foundation is turning 20, and we find ourselves reflecting on the world then and now, the values that drive our work, and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year is the moment of truth for the Group of 20’s growth agenda. The leading rich and developing nations that comprise the G20 made 1,000 structural reform commitments back…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reforming the UN: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres assumed his five-year term exactly one year ago, putting reform, prevention, and peace at the heart of his agenda. Delivering on the Sustainable Development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Handshake is developing a new online platform stored securely on the blockchain to help ensure safe and just working conditions for the some 150 million migrant workers worldwide. We don’t want to make any assumptions about this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly a decade after the global financial crisis, emerging markets are poised for a middle-class boom. Our experts weigh in on what it will take to sustain growth in 2018…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We define an episode of state-led mass killing as the death of at least 1,000 noncombatant civilians over the course of a year or less due to deliberate actions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent announcement that WHO has prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid offers a major boost to prevention efforts against a disease that causes 11–20 million cases annually and…