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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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