MDBs align on harmonizing job measurement methods across development projects Africa remains the largest recipient of infrastructure-linked development finance World Bank estimates infrastructure can ...

After several failed attempts to protect nontidal wetlands, Delaware lawmakers have introduced legislation that developers say they can get behind.

The New Orleans City Council voted 4-3 on Thursday (April 16) to fund the expansion of the New Orleans Police Department’s ...

The United Nations wants to know what country works best with the natural world. That’s tough to measure.

The paper utilizes this method to analyze six key indicators of development with cross-country data from 1950 and finds that the world is developing at its slowest pace in 75 years. This slowdown has ...

But step into any high-performing workplace today and you’ll notice something striking: the skills that matter most — ...

The next leg of the USA Swimming Pro Series is just days away, a talent-rich field ready to race in the Chicago suburbs. The latest duel between Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh in the 800-meter ...

Conservation has many widely used strategies, but far less reliable evidence about how well they work, making it difficult to direct scarce resources effectively. Researchers increasingly argue that ...

In the past two decades, impact evaluation has become an unavoidable topic in the social sector. Yet beyond the discourse on how to measure social impact lies a structural problem: We are not ...

How old are you, really? People are flocking to so-called longevity clinics and buying tests online to find out their “biological age”—a metric that some scientists say could reveal how healthy a ...

A citizen initiative introduced in opposition to Menlo Park's plan to build affordable housing in downtown parking lots will head to voters next year. The City Council unanimously voted this week to ...