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Illegal mining has enriched the Maduro regime and criminal groups while devastating the Amazon and its people. The U.S. is ...

A new international study calls for a fundamental reset in how humanity understands and pursues sustainable development. The ...

The Singapore-based AI clinical trial engine powering Asia’s—especially China’s—rapid rise in the biotech industry. Deep ...

New Research Shows Leadership Systems — Not People — Are the Bottleneck Productivity is not lost because people lack competence; it is lost because leadership systems do not give supervisors the time, ...

Jason LeConte Nelson has joined the Department of Homeland Security as its new Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer, bringing ...

Baghdad, 8 December 2025 – The Government of Iraq, represented by the Ministry of Planning, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), today launched the National Human Development Report ...

Economists have long recognized the importance of human capital—the skills and knowledge embedded in people. More than a century ago, Alfred Marshall wrote that “the most valuable of all capital is ...

The human brain experiences five distinct eras as we age, and each is defined by changes in our neural architecture that influence how we process information, new research shows. The brain changes ...

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...

Ministers from 40 countries participated at the 13 th Human Capital Conclave focused on skills for jobs. Photo: GCS/World Bank A billion young people will reach working age in the next decade. Their ...