This note considers the future of aid from the perspective of the 2005-2030 time frame. It offers a possible scenario for the future, with booming private remittances and nongovernmental aid flows put to innovative uses, eclipsing a less agile, more politically driven official aid industry. A...

This note considers the future of aid from the perspective of the 2005-2030 time frame. It offers a possible scenario for the future, with responses of the aid industry to falling numbers of people in absolute poverty and to the growing ability of poor countries to borrow from the market. A...

The Water Global Practice, under the WSS GSG Utility Turnaround thematic area, has implemented the Global Study on WSS Utility Aggregation to provide evidence-based guidance to policy makers and practitioners regarding when, why, and how water and sanitation utilities can work together...

A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world...

Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions.

Introduction: the pencil -- part 1. Deceptively simple -- Bricks -- The factory -- The postage stamp -- Bicycles -- Spectacles -- Canned foods -- Auctions -- part 2. Selling the dream -- Tulips -- Queen's ware -- The Bonsack machine -- The sewing machine -- The mail-order catalogue -- Fast-food...