Any good leader knows that scientific discovery and innovation fuels progress, facilitates development, and can help tackle issues like food insecurity, water shortages, and climate change.

As rates of urbanization increase globally, city planners are working to reverse decades of reckless growth by returning nature to the built environment.

Although Africa has recorded strong economic growth in recent years, and will continue to do so this year, its gains will remain fleeting until it undergoes a long-awaited transition away from commodity exports and toward manufacturing.

Inspiring and reassuring voters is a political challenge, not a technocratic one.

I’ve been one of a few refugee representatives allowed to attend the peace talks. I’ve seen that when South Sudanese own the process, there’s hope, writes Simon Marot Touloung.

At least since the days of John Maynard Keynes, professional economists have not had to worry too much about the moral implications of their technical work.

Across all cultures, raising a child is considered one of the most rewarding things a person can do.

Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for universal access to clean water and sanitation. But if governments do not embrace unconventional water resources, achieving that goal will be as difficult as getting water from a stone – and the consequences for water-scarce regions will be dire, write Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin.

Around the world, an estimated 617 million school-aged children are unable to read at grade level, a proficiency gap that disproportionately affects boys and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Despite global improvements in health-care access, many governments in the Asia-Pacific region continue to overlook the importance of sexual and reproductive wellbeing.