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Asian food security challenged by population growth and rising calorie demands that non GE farming cannot meet. Foreign funded anti-GE NGOs spread misinformation, scaring countries from embracing new technologies. This is the latest in the GLP-Center for Food Integrity series GMO: Beyond the Science.

  In a landmark move aimed at revitalizing intra-African trade and combating food insecurity, commodity exchanges across the...

When analyzing poverty, only looking at unemployment rates will be insufficient and misleading.

Stéphane Straub discusses how new methods of data and knowledge should be gathered by the World Bank to increase the development impact of infrastructure projects. He is the World Bank Chief Economist for Infrastructure.

Seventy power outages in a week, and yet another PNG Power CEO resigning have laid bare the state of crisis in the PNG power sector say Michael Kabuni, Kingtau Mambon and Stephen Howes.

Learn how MCC uses third-party indicators to determine which countries should be eligible for MCC assistance.

A new knowledge brief - “A comparison of different sources of purchasing power parity (PPPs) estimates” - reviews five sources of purchasing power parity (PPP) estimates and explores how they differ in terms of coverage of expenditures under gross domestic product (GDP), frequency, input data, and methodology.

Africa can play a major role in—and should be front and center of—any renewed efforts for revitalizing the global economy.

Although agricultural productivity is growing in Bangladesh, its rate of progress in this regard remains the lowest among nearby countries in South Asia and beyond, according to an analyst..As per the World Development Indicators (WDI), an index comprising international statistics on globa

Degrowth advocates argue for structural transformations in how economies and societies prioritize material wealth accumulation to reduce the negative effects of future anthropogenic climate change. Degrowth proponents argue that human economic activity could be lessened, and societies transformed to prioritize improved wellbeing, reducing the threat of climate change. This paper explores implications of alternative patterns of economic growth with transformational policy pathways (i.e.,...