In a split vote, Saratoga’s planning commission recommended that the city council approve new housing development policies that reduce opportunities for public input, drawing pushback from community ...

1 March 2024 - The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) will hold its annual meeting at UN Headquarters in New York on 4-8 March. Its 24 members bring a wealth of perspectives on development issues ...

Central to DECDP's mandate is the effective dissemination of new research findings. It oversees the Policy Research Working Papers series, fostering innovative economic analysis; as well as ...

25 July 2025 - At this week’s UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue, development experts emphasized the urgent need to strengthen social protection systems, invest in young people and support economic ...

Amb. Ekramy El Zaghat, President of the World Fund for Development and Planning (WFDP), Official Representative to United Nations (ECOSOC). Around the world, development strategies are becoming more ...

Indiana's Economic Development Corp. faces scrutiny over accounting problems, prompting an independent audit by Gov. Mike Braun. The IEDC's shift under the Holcomb administration from a business ...

Last week Australia released its new international development policy. With Australia situated in a mostly developing neighborhood, the policy is one of the central arms of its regional foreign policy ...

The World Bank recently financed two Development Policy Loans for $250 million in June 2022 and $500 million in March 2023 to support a program of reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Like ...

The United Nations has predicted that Lagos will likely be the third most-populated city by the Year 2030, with a projected population of about 30 million. It is also Nigeria’s most-populous city at a ...