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Where There's Rule of Law There's More Growth, Less Inequality

What drives economic growth? This has been a dominant concern for senior global leaders for ages. Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations...

Lack of Human Capital is Holding Back Latin America’s Growth

In 1990, Latin America’s average GDP per capita was a little over a quarter of the United States’ income level, while emerging and...

Nepal makes progress in human capital development though pandemic threatens gains of the past decade

KATHMANDU, Sept. 17, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic threatens hard-won gains in health and education over the past decade, especially in...

Investing in People to Build Human Capital

Scientific and technological advances are transforming lives: they are even helping poorer countries close the gap with rich countries in...

WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Under the Millennium Development Goals, the world has made progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment through equal access...

Empowering Women in Developing Economies

Voices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to developm

Facts and Figures: Economic Empowerment

Benefits of economic empowerment Women’s economic empowerment is central to realizing women’s rights and gender equality. Women’s...

5 Governance Challenges for Africa

'The governance challenges that are holding citizens across Africa back.' Here are five pressing democracy and human rights issues the AU...

The Good Governance Quandary

Over the past 30 years, a substantial consensus has emerged in development circles that some countries are rich and others poor because...

Improving Governance Is Key to Ensuring Equitable Growth in Developing Countries

A new World Bank policy report urges developing countries and international development agencies to rethink their approach to governance,...

LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST: BEYOND BINARY TERMS OF TRADITIONALISM AND MODERNITY

This article explores the judicial role in the region from the 19th century, focusing on the impact of the Western law to the region with...

Public Administration in the Middle East and North Africa

This article highlights the objective of the special issue which is to understand the status of public administration in six profiled...