Learn more about the IMF's efforts to build capacity in member countries and the support of our partners during the past year (fiscal year 2025). Learn more about the IMF's efforts to build capacity ...

Over half of the world's population now lives in cities, a figure expected to rise to nearly 70% by 2050, posing significant challenges for jobs, housing, and infrastructure. The World Bank is ...

In version 19, the open-source SSH manager XPipe also connects to outdated Unix variants for the first time and supports pure ...

OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS (and Android) as a native binary, opening the way to run unmodified Java code on ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

Child and Adolescent Development is the study of the biological, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth and development of the child from conception through emerging adulthood. Using theory, ...

Nepal’s poverty reduction story over the last 30 years is nothing short of remarkable; its US$2.15 poverty rate fell from over 55 percent in 1995 to 0.37 percent in 2022, a feat as impressive as ...

You asked Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, about the science and the politics. She responded from COP30 in Brazil. By Katrin Bennhold Officials have yet to grasp the magnitude of ...

In August 2025, the Federal Government, under the Ministry of Regional Development, inaugurated regional economic development boards. One was at a heartbeat that the regional development commissions ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met on Tuesday with as Dutch’s Secretary for Foreign Trade and Development Aukje de Vries and her accompanying delegation in Damascus to discuss ways ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed as a roadmap for the implementation of the Millennium Declaration. Based on the values and principles agreed upon by Member States in the 2010 ...

Ghana’s development strategy hinges on a dual resource framework: finite extractive assets below ground, and renewable human and ecological assets above. Beneath-ground resources—minerals like gold, ...