Policy Innovations
We Need a Better Measure of GDP in Poor Countries
If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth in poor countries, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid?...
A New Development Bank for Infrastructure and Sustainability
The BRICs are financing infrastructure and sustainable development at home and in other developing countries....
Breaking the Binary
This Schwab Foundation guide for scaling social innovation examines case studies of policy experimentation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe....
Oceans of Innovation
What kind of leadership will the twenty-first century require? Are education systems in the Pacific region ready and innovative enough to provide this leadership?...
It's High Time for an International Environmental Court
Subject matter expertise. Compulsory jurisdiction. Standing for non-state actors. Precise and enforceable language. It's time to consider a court for the environment....
Innovation in Development Finance
Over the last six years, roughly $6 billion has been allotted to innovative sources of development financing, and some recent proposals promise to raise far more....
Every Day We Put the State on Trial
Art bears a unique responsibility in the search for truth, writes Ai Weiwei as he prepares a budding Chinese civil society to imagine change....
Social Covenants Must Precede Social Contracts
Fragile states that do not first forge a social covenant will later find it difficult to codify justice in a social contract....
Global Norms as Public Goods
Global interdependence demands that we nurture trust, strengthen the fragile fabric of global norms, and forge a sense of global civics....
United States Takes India to the WTO over Domestic Solar
Rather than engaging in trade disputes, the United States should establish its own solar capacity targets to stimulate additional demand for solar equipment....
Thought Leader: Tomas Sedlacek
Economists worship efficiency, profit, computability, numbers, growth, and wealth. But Tomas Sedlacek thinks the time of economists as priests is coming to an end....
Value is the only commonality in an increasingly complex, challenging and interdependent world.