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Educating children with disabilities: Addressing the unfinished agenda. Reflections a decade later.

The third Global Disability Summit takes place this week in Berlin, and policymakers, educators, and civil society actors attending will reflect on…

8 months ago

Securing the future of fast payments: The cybersecurity conundrum

The first blog in the series of  Securing the future of fast payment covered the topic of open-source technology.  In this second…

8 months ago

Fat tails and lots of zeros: The nature of international investment

The distribution of international investment, even at the country level, has many zeros and also has fat tails. This makes…

8 months ago

Technological innovation in bank supervision: How SupTech disciplines bank risk-taking

Regulators increasingly rely on supervisory technologies to enhance bank supervision, yet their potential to discipline risky bank behaviour remains unclear.…

8 months ago

Extreme heat, hospital crowding, and the hidden health costs of climate change

As extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, rising temperatures will increase the incidence of heatstroke, kidney damage, and…

8 months ago

More Districts Are Training Teachers on Artificial Intelligence

Key Findings In a nationally representative survey, roughly half of districts reported that they have provided training to their teachers…

8 months ago

Artificial Intelligence in Health Systems: What’s Missing in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Latin America and the Caribbean faces a serious quality problem in their health systems—something unacceptable for a middle-income region. The…

9 months ago

Mission 300: Unlocking capital for off-grid solutions in Africa

When African Heads of State, government representatives, private sector leaders, development partners, and civil society participants gathered in Tanzania for…

9 months ago

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and their financial impact

Cyberattacks have become a growing threat to the global economy but are still treated by many companies as merely technical…

9 months ago

On the effectiveness of the sanctions on Russia: New data and new evidence

There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of sanctions imposed in world over the past 70 years, raising…

9 months ago