Multilateral Development Organizations

A farmer harvests wheat at a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan April 26, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

Report

High level commissions and global policymaking: Prospects for accelerating progress toward SDG2

Geoffrey Gertz, Sarah Zoubek, Jack Daly, and Helena Hlavaty

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Global Trade

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s vision for the WTO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and David Dollar

Monday, September 21, 2020

China

Show and case: How Beijing approaches gender equality and LGBT issues on the world stage

Darius Longarino

September 2020

Front of the headquarters of the United Nations Office in Geneva. Geneva, Switzerland, March 04, 2020.Facade du siege de l office des Nations Unis de Geneve. Geneve, 4 Mars 2020.NO USE FRANCE

External Article

U.N. relevance depends on US leadership

Jeffrey Feltman

The Foreign Service Journal September 2020

Reports

Syrian children smile after a heavy snowstorm at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 8, 2015. Syrian refugees in Jordan's main Zaatari refugee camp appealed for help on Thursday after a regional storm buffeted the Middle East with blizzards, rain and strong winds. The temperatures, which usually average 13 Celsius (55.4 Fahrenheit ) this time of the year have plunged to 2 to zero Celsius (35.6-32 Fahrenheit), Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT CONFLICT)

Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

Stabilization and human development in a disordered Middle East and North Africa

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Joseph Saba, and Kevin Huggard

June 2020

A protester gestures as he blocks the entrance to the United Nations headquarters with other protesters in Colombo July 6, 2010. The protesters on Tuesday blocked the entrance to the UN offices, trapping workers inside, to demand the immediate withdrawal of a panel advising UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on whether war crimes were committed in the final months of Sri Lanka's war last year against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. Ban appointed the three-member panel on June 22, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (SRI LANKA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS) - GM1E6761CKD01

Report

The purpose of multilateralism

Will Moreland

September 2019

Report

The new global agenda: Scale, urgency, and the future of the multilateral development bank system

Nicholas Stern and Amar Bhattacharya

Monday, July 1, 2019

Report

Sustainable financing for development

Homi Kharas, Sachin Chaturvedi, Mustafizur Rahman, and Imme Scholz

Sunday, March 31, 2019

A girl walks towards her family's tent at a refugee camp for people displaced by fightings between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Ain Issa, Syria October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro - RC182B251DD0

Global Development

Global development disrupted: Findings from a survey of 93 leaders

George Ingram and Kristin M. Lord

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: The WHO, international institutions, and the COVID-19 response

Bonnie Jenkins and Bruce Jones

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC

Future Development

What makes the World Bank so influential—its money or its ideas?

Bradley Parks, Ani Harutyunyan, and Matt DiLorenzo

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Pedestrians wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walk next to a sculpture of the world in a public park in Vina del Mar, Chile April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

Future Development

The world economy in 2020—the IMF gets it mostly right

Indermit Gill

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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General view during the NATO summit in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Podcast Episode

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Up Front

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

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