Just months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a new interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa has formed. A recent ...

Just months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a new interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa has formed. A recent ...

While refugee-led organisations (RLOs) remain chronically underfunded, recent years have seen a growing willingness among government donors to invest in refugee leadership. But this fragile progress ...

Gangs are a symptom, not the cause. This episode explores how poverty, exclusion, and militarised policies fuel violence in SIDS and other countries— and why investing in young people, communities and ...

This paper considers the impact on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 16.3.2 of providing unsentenced detainees with legal advice and assistance. SDG 16.3.2 is the total number of persons ...

Too many public works programmes may be failing to deliver long-term benefits – not due to poor execution, but by design. If we want to use them effectively, we need to rethink what they are trying to ...

At last month’s World Bank/ IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, participants highlighted job creation as critical to the Bank’s mission. Building on the Bank’s leadership in placing jobs and decent ...

Welcome to the latest issue of This Week in Macroeconomics – your weekly deep dive into key economic trends and their far-reaching impact on the global landscape. This week, we delve into a ...

In a global economy grappling with escalating trade disputes and slowing trade growth, the successful conclusion of the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations is a pivotal achievement. After ...

Join us at the 2025 African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire for a crucial discussion on leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to drive ...