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POLICY PAPERS
May 11, 2023
The COVID pandemic has had differential effects by gender, with women experiencing higher job and income loss, increased rates of domestic violence, and mounting care burdens. We examine the extent to which MDB COVID response projects incorporated gender elements and highlight the gaps in those effo...
Blog Post
May 04, 2023
Last week, the World Bank published the 2023 edition of its World Development Report (WDR), with a focus on “Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.” The report provides a sweeping overview of the issues facing migrants, refugees, and countries of origin, transit, and destination, encapsulating it all in...
May
10
2023
9:00—10:15 AM ET / 2:00-3:15 p.m. BST
April 24, 2023
For most of human existence, space has been unreachable and mysterious. Today, however, satellites are launched into space about every three days- underpinning telecommunications, utilities, financial institutions, and other elements of global daily life. Satellites also offer the potential to accel...
Apr
27
2023
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 3:00-4:30 PM BST AND April 28, 10:00-11:30 AM ET/ 3:00-4:30 PM BST
April 11, 2023
The Center for Global Development, Refugees International, and the World Bank Group invite you to join us for a series of panels to launch the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, & Societies at the Birdsall Conference Center.
Blog Post
April 10, 2023
Among IDA’s key substantive priorities is gender and development—which sits alongside human capital; fragility, conflict, and violence; jobs and economic transformation; and climate change as an overarching special theme. But despite IDA’s inclusion of gender equality as a theme beginning in 2016, i...
REPORTS
March 29, 2023
The Handbook for Space Capability Development is an inclusive, pragmatic, and open-access resource focused on “foundational space capability” development. Its intended audience is the planner or planning team charged with drafting a national space strategy and building a national space program. Amon...
Blog Post
March 29, 2023
Space is almost too glamorous for its own good. This is understandable; for most of human existence, the nighttime sky has been unreachable, mysterious, yet strangely helpful (especially to those navigating or measuring time by the stars). Like the first ships to cross an ocean, early satellites wer...