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Progress towards SDG 4, which aims to provide high-quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all children, was severely disrupted by COVID-19.

There’s a lot out there on how to improve educational outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. On the one hand, one may be tempted to lean into Finnish education scholar Pasi Sahlberg’s critique: “There are so many ‘facts’ now available about how to fix education, that anyone…can easily gravitate towards data that confirms what they believe, and then select sources that deliver it.”

Governments cannot tackle the growth and resilience challenge on their own. The expectation that it can generate sustained growth and resilience without the private sector is both unreasonable and unrealistic.

Five years ago, in 2018, the World Bank published its first World Development Report (WDR) on Education, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise. At its core was the belief that across the world, education was in crisis.

The vast accumulation of data by organisations has given rise to highly comprehensive digital profiles of individuals, reaching an unprecedented level of granularity. Not all of this is happening with their consent. Also, companies are collecting all kinds of data on the presumption that all data is valuable.

In this detailed article, we’ll discuss the most immigrant-friendly countries in the world and their migrants-to-population ratio. We’ll also highlight how the native population’s attitude towards immigrants impacts their stay in a country and which aspects determine immigrants’ preference towards a certain country. If you want to skip the details, jump to 8 Most Immigrant […]

Gender equality is a fundamental human right, a matter of fairness and justice. It is a foundation for a peaceful and prosperous world and essential for development. It is also at the heart of the World Bank Group’s vision to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.

One year in, OFW groups give mixed reviews of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Department of Migrant Workers, as calls remain for a reevaluation of labor export as an economic strategy

Philippine Canadian Inquirer PH cited for ‘proactive, integrated’ migration policy News

Language English An Expert work Group Meeting to examine the Report of the Study on "The Opportunities of Regional Value Chains in West Africa in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA )" was organized from June 20 to 21 in Dakar by the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA/SRO-WA), in collaboration with the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP...