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Harnessing the Power of the Digital Economy to Achieve Global Development Goals

This piece originally appeared in the WIIT Communique. The invention of the telegraph was seen as“completely revolutionizing existing modes of doing business; for when telegraphic lines become extended, and its transmitting powers vastly improve, as they doubtless will be, Western, Southern...

Economic Reform Feature Service Article: Development Evaluation at a Key Inflection Point

An inflection point is a turning point. Recent developments promise such a turning point for international development and development evaluation. What would make this turning point catalytic is if it can mobilize private sector inv...

Defending Liberal Democracy in Emerging Markets

Following a wave of global democratization, over the last decade democracies in emerging markets have been tested from above and below. In countries previously seen as successes, citizens are frustrated by economic stagnation and dislocation, dissatisfied with underperforming governments, and divid...

Private Sector Innovation in Refugee Response and Why it Matters

More than five and a half years deep into the Syrian war, the development aid space is crowded: crowded with emergency relief agencies working to supply besieged communities with critical food supplies and healthcare; crowded with multinational donors working to catalyze economic and political chan...

Iraq’s Political Wrestling Arena

In Iraq, former governments spent billions of dollars to sustain the public sector at the cost of future generations with little foresight of potential economic ramifications. The public sector expanded to such a degree that the private sector was left with few opportunities to contribute to the ec...

Launching a Platform for Peer Learning for Economic Think Tanks in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is currently home to around 8% of the world’s population. Collectively, the countries that comprise Southeast Asia – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – are projected to become the fourth largest e...

Drivers of Violent Extremism

Extremist violence presents a serious threat to democratic values and societies around the world. The last decade has witnessed increased attention to how and why individuals become involved in extremist violence, including “push” and “pull” factors. “Push” facto...

Another Baldrige Ambassador Takes the Message Overseas

By Dawn Marie Bailey The following is an interview with William Pawlucy, CIPE Consultant… about his work with Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Based outside of Washington, D.C., the Baldrige Program helps organizations identify, understand, and manage the factors that determine their succ...

New Approaches for Supporting Refugees

By Yini Wu The refugee crisis in the Middle East is nothing new and it continues to evolve as new conflicts arise. Some host countries have been saturated with refugees over the years and have become especially sensitive when confronted with the current Syrian refugee crisis. To address these sensi...

Implementing the New Urban Agenda

I staffed a stand at the UN Habitat III Exhibition in Quito, Ecuador in October. FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation launched The City We Need is Affordable book during the conference. Any citizen of Quito could visit attend the UN meetings, the Exhibition and the Habitat III Village...