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New Momentum to Build Social Protection Capacities
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) and partner UN agencies are scaling up support to strengthen social protection systems in Arab countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in response to growing pressures from conflict, displacement, economic instability and climate shocks.
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The Iran War Has Forced the US-Gulf Alliance Forward
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They won’t say it in public. But in private conversations since the February 28 outbreak of war in the region, Gulf officials tell me that they have absorbed Iranian retaliation for hosting a US-Gulf security architecture they were never permitted to name. The current terms are no longer acceptable.
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World’s Top Fossil Fuel Importers Spent USD 314 Billion
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By prioritizing fossil fuels over clean energy by a margin of 2.5 to 1, the world’s largest economies are subsidizing their own vulnerability to geopolitical crises by choosing to lock in high-risk, volatile energy systems instead of investing in lasting stability.
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Strength in numbers: Developing countries unite
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Developing countries are banking on having a stronger voice in debt negotiations, following the launch of a new country-led borrowing initiative on Wednesday on the margins of the annual IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings.
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Reconstruction as Violence in Assad’s Syria: A Critical Overview
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The most important point that the book makes, and the one undergirding most of its essays, is the insistence on the civic and ethical dimension of any intervention in the built environment.
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The Global South’s Right to Industrialize Review
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In recent years, scholars and economists have highlighted an important problem: countries in the Global South are significantly under-industrialized, restrained to a weak position within the global economy and vulnerable to exploitation by wealthier nations.
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What We Learned at the Growth Summit 2026 Highlights
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We recently wrapped up the second edition of the Growth Summit, organized by our three organizations and hosted by the Policy Center for the New South.
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Human rights and the rights of nature explained
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United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet them” . . .
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When Architecture Meets Geotechnics for Sustainability
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The ground beneath a structure demands as much attention as its visible form. Every tower, bridge, or cultural landmark depends on creative vision and how well it responds to the terrain that supports it.
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