Random Thoughts

• ➤ PRC infrastructure: A lot done, a long way to go
• ➤ Interactive poverty maps at your fingertips: The case of Bangladesh
• ➤ Early childhood as the foundation for tomorrow’s workforce
• ➤ Why businesses must adapt to the SDGs
• ➤ A second regularization campaign for irregular immigrants in Morocco: When emigration countries become immigration countries
• ➤ Sri Lanka needs critical minds for critical times!
• ➤ Five innovative education trends from Korea
• ➤ More bank competition in Gulf countries could be a boon for small businesses
• ➤ Insuring India: States learn about health insurance from each other
• ➤ Qat trade in Yemen: flourishing despite a falling economy
• ➤ How can Social Accountability address fragility and help societies rebuild?
• ➤ Lack of access to a toilet and handwashing materials hits women and girls hardest, especially when menstruating
• ➤ Two cheers for the 2017 Governance and the Law World Development Report
• ➤ Fostering sustainable development through carbon markets
• ➤ African Economies Need Deeper Diversification and Better Policies
• ➤ To farm, or Not to farm? Changing the youth’s mindset is the answer
• ➤ Better understanding the costs of tax treaties: Some initial evidence from Ukraine
• ➤ How can we tackle abuse in the global garment industry?
• ➤ Beyond ribbon-cutting: measuring the real impact of transport projects
• ➤ Unequal opportunity, unequal growth
• ➤ The power of story telling for teaching and learning
• ➤ Weekly wire: The global forum
• ➤ 360° Technological change
• ➤ The power of videos in communicating the development agenda
• ➤ How to address the lack of affordable housing in Asia
• ➤ Opinion: Should the WHO split in two?
• ➤ Opinion: Why data is key to gender parity in politics
• ➤ Djibouti: Where forced displacement and migration meet
• ➤ Future Jobs for youth in Agriculture and Food Systems: Learning from our backyard in DC
• ➤ Managing water better is central to attaining our development goals
• ➤ Realigning investment tax incentives to job opportunities
• ➤ New fiber optic connection brings broadband internet to Palau
• ➤ Leaving no one behind means confronting ageism in development
• ➤ All hands on deck: new evidence on the need for a multi-sectoral approach to reducing childhood stunting
• ➤ Geneva APPs for a Better World
• ➤ The Middle East, version 2.0.
• ➤ Dealing with fragility in middle-income countries
• ➤ Sharing the future of open access
• ➤ Why operations knowledge matters for MDBs – and how to capture, reuse it
• ➤ Agriculture: An opportunity for better jobs for Afghanistan’s youth
• ➤ Poverty is no barrier to one girl’s medical dream
• ➤ 6 challenges to advancing GMS economic corridors
• ➤ Learning from Japan: PPPs for infrastructure resilience
• ➤ Transforming Kenya’s healthcare system: a PPP success story
• ➤ Ending poverty in China: The role of knowledge exchange in poverty reduction
• ➤ How to protect metro systems against natural hazards? Countries look to Japan for answers
• ➤ Get off my lawn! Pokemon Go tests global property laws
• ➤ Ranking the world’s megacities is a wake-up call for women’s rights
• ➤ Bill Gates did it, will.i.am did it, Mayor Bloomberg did it and even the POTUS did it. Shouldn't you? An hour of Code for *you* the Busy Development Professionals
• ➤ International Day of the Girl Child: Getting girls in the classroom and keeping them there
• ➤ In Afghanistan’s Farm Belt, Women Lead Unions and Find New Status
• ➤ What’s behind poor education outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire?
• ➤ Harnessing the Power of Innovation to Save Mothers and Children
• ➤ Embracing a new life through a change in livelihood in Nepal
• ➤ Railways are the future—so how can countries finance them?
• ➤ Imagining infrastructure services in 2017
• ➤ We gave Sri Lankan microenterprises wage subsidies to hire workers: 8 years after starting, here’s what happened
• ➤ Norway must stand firm on its commitment to sustainable development
• ➤ Challenging conventional wisdom about girl’s schooling
• ➤ Opinion: 7 international family planning trends that will shape 2017
• ➤ Land at the heart of Myanmar’s transition: Part 2
• ➤ Fostering innovation through partnership
• ➤ Do Credit Guarantee Schemes encourage banks to lend to SMEs?
• ➤ Can good infrastructure decisions be made with little information?
• ➤ Early recovery programs help restore economic stability in central Yemen
• ➤ Migrants and refugees: A global problem or a local solution?
• ➤ How to design youth employment programs
• ➤ Battery swapping can propel India’s electric car revolution
• ➤ Leaving no one behind – achieving disability-inclusive disaster risk management
• ➤ The role of development financial institutions in the new millennium