ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…
PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent…
ROME – In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the global pov…
SEATTLE – Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisio…
NEW YORK – At the conclusion of their summit in Durban in March, the leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) a…
NEW DELHI – For a country as poor as India, growth should be what Americans call a “no-brainer.” It is largely a matter of providing public …
CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream…
ABU DHABI/NEW YORK – For a child, receiving a vaccine takes just a moment (and perhaps a few tears). But such moments are crucial for gettin…
MAPUTO – Most of the news one hears coming out of Mozambique is bad – poverty, disease, conflict, and floods. But there are a lot of good th…
LAHORE – I grew up in Pakistan throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, and my parents, like parents everywhere, wanted me to be fit and healthy an…