What explains the wide variability of development programs in achieving the targeted outcomes? Are we neglecting crucial links that can make development work more effective?

It won't be much longer that the IMF can select its leadership like it's still the 1940s -- in back room conversations between the Americans and Europeans.

Remittance flows are sometimes the most important source of income that families in developing countries can rely on. Unless the transfer costs can be reduced, their impact on reducing poverty will not reach its full potential.

A real man can control himself and a real woman knows her own power does not come from being seductive. But until adults start acting like adults and the Machiavellian nonsense behind the scenes stops, we are going to keep heading in the wrong direction.

Brazil's biofuel drama is a reminder that solutions packaged in green wrappers fail to scale with billions facing starvation in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

In the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, South-South trade is becoming a powerful engine for economic opportunity.

Over the past three decades, global trade grew almost twice as fast as GDP. This allowed many developing countries to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

This blog is co-authored by Sanjay Pradhan, Vice President, World Bank Institute. Three interlinked global crises -- food, economic, climate -- were ...

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There is no simple solution to the food crisis. What's needed is a combination of carefully chosen and calibrated short and long term measures.

For the 600 million people living in fragile and conflict affected economies, the threat of relapsing into violence and slipping into deeper poverty i...

Let's face it, our world has seen better days. Take a look at the newspaper on any given day and you'll find enough tragedy and disaster to send you s...