Random Thoughts

• ➤ Breaking Down Ethnic Divides in Macedonia
• ➤ How to protect metro systems against natural hazards? Countries look to Japan for answers
• ➤ Sustainable domestic financing – a critical ingredient to driving immunisation progress
• ➤ Testing, testing: How Kosovo fared in its first international assessment of students
• ➤ The localization of the Sustainable Development Goals: Implementing the SDGs in Colombia, Indonesia, and Kenya
• ➤ Opinion: Sex is fun. Family planning messaging should be too.
• ➤ Sharing the future of open access
• ➤ Will South Africa turn the corner in 2017?
• ➤ Phenomenal development: New MOOC draws economic policy lessons from South Korea’s transformation
• ➤ It’s time to energize Cambodian agribusiness
• ➤ “Localize It”: A Voice from the Field
• ➤ Building resilience with nature
• ➤ It’s not about the ‘Left’ or ‘Right’, but about ‘power’
• ➤ Reducing demand must be a core component of cutting wildlife crime
• ➤ Solar Energy — putting power back into the hands of ordinary Gazans
• ➤ To build a brighter future, invest in women and girls
• ➤ Opinion: People’s voices must guide the road toward universal health coverage
• ➤ To farm, or Not to farm? Changing the youth’s mindset is the answer
• ➤ Weekly wire: The global forum
• ➤ Breaking ground in gender parity in Bangladesh’s primary schools
• ➤ Why businesses must adapt to the SDGs
• ➤ Transforming markets, one fan at a time: Punjab and the drive for more energy-efficient celling fans
• ➤ Where should we invest to keep hunger at bay?
• ➤ De-risking impedes access to finance for non-profit organizations
• ➤ Will 2025 be the final deadline for the AEC?
• ➤ It’s Time to Make Public Financial Disclosure Efficient and Effective
• ➤ International trade and integration: The latest research
• ➤ Is Asia's growth independent of the West?
• ➤ How to address the lack of affordable housing in Asia
• ➤ Norway must stand firm on its commitment to sustainable development
• ➤ Bangladesh: Setting a global standard in ending poverty
• ➤ Q & A: New initiatives for education in the Middle East and North Africa, including for refugees
• ➤ The foreseeable future of Mongolia’s agriculture
• ➤ Making South Asian Apparel Exports More Competitive
• ➤ Complexities of reputation management and policy making in a globalized world: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
• ➤ Inspecting Poland's inspections
• ➤ ADB scaling up assistance to PNG
• ➤ What can developing countries do to prepare for the automation shift?
• ➤ Building benchmarks for infrastructure investors: a long but worthwhile journey
• ➤ Energy efficiency: Why not enough is being invested
• ➤ How to maintain momentum on nutrition and early childhood development
• ➤ Give power to the managers and the teachers will come: Guest post by Jacobus Cilliers
• ➤ Power Calculations for Regression Discontinuity Evaluations: Part 1
• ➤ Get ready for climate impacts beyond your imagination
• ➤ Toward a more durable form of globalization, beyond 'neoliberal' negligence
• ➤ Court budgeting – ways to improve performance and do more with less
• ➤ Hydropower in Vietnam: The right way to do it
• ➤ New roads to better lives in rural Bhutan
• ➤ A review of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang
• ➤ Maximizing potential for healthy rivers and low-carbon energy
• ➤ There are otters in the city
• ➤ An early education in development
• ➤ To Enable or Disable? That’s the Question in Transport Projects
• ➤ To improve female labour force participation in Sri Lanka, first change attitudes
• ➤ Tony Atkinson (1944 – 2017) and the measurement of global poverty
• ➤ Trump’s Pro-ISIS Policy
• ➤ Imagining infrastructure services in 2017
• ➤ Why introducing school agricultural clubs could turn farming into the coolest thing ever
• ➤ How can countries take advantage of the fourth industrial revolution?
• ➤ Moving from informal to formal sector and what it means for policymakers
• ➤ Stronger together: Stepping up our partnerships with the UN
• ➤ How to design youth employment programs
• ➤ Opinion: Should the WHO split in two?
• ➤ The art of laying bricks: infrastructure as an asset class
• ➤ Civil Society voices on tracking universal health coverage
• ➤ Philippine BPOs: Getting ahead of the automation curve
• ➤ Economic marginalization of minorities: Do laws provide the needed protections?
• ➤ Facing the social protection challenges of climate change
• ➤ What type of protectionism should we fear?
• ➤ What is this thing called ‘populism’? : Jan-Werner Müller hoes the weeds
• ➤ Rethinking governance for more effective policymaking