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June 5, 2013

International Organizations
Global Development 2.0: Assessing a New UN Roadmap

Last week the UN’s latest “High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons” released a long-awaited report on global development. The resulting document—A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform …

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepare for the second day of the meeting of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda at United Nations headquarters in New York

January 25, 2016

Wars and Conflict
Making History in 2016: Women to Watch in the UN Secretary-General Race

While all eyes in the U.S. are turned to the presidential primaries, another election contest has seized the attention of diplomats across the globe: the United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) race,…

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October 18, 2012

Development
Question of the Week: The Millennium Development Goals Part II

How should the next set of global development goals be chosen? Question of the Week posts review important questions and controversies in global development by providing background information and …

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October 7, 2011

You Might Have Missed: The Missile Gap, Overclassification, and a Secret Panel

- Joan and John Bird, “Penetrating the Iron Curtain: Resolving the Missile Gap Through Technology,” CIA Historical Collections Edition, September 22, 2011. “The “missile gap” was in essence a growin…

April 8, 2016

Energy and Environment
Family Planning and the SDGs

Voices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is authored by Ellen Starbird,…

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