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In this guest post, my colleague Rachel Vogelstein analyzes the issue of child marriage and its implications for U.S. policy in a range of areas. She is the author of an important new CFR report on child marriage.
Children from underprivileged backgrounds attend a playgroup class at Mashal School on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on January 24, 2013 (Zohra Bensemra/Courtesy Reuters).
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Sir Michael Barber, who is the U.K. Department for International Development’s (DfID) (unpaid) special representative on education in Pakistan, the chief education advisor at Pearson, and from 2001 to 2005, was the chief advisor on delivery to Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the article he discusses an educational reform program he helps lead in Pakistan and the broader debate over the effective delivery of foreign aid.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South African President Jacob Zuma, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a family photograph during the fifth BRICS Summit in Durban, South Africa, March 27, 2013 (Rogan Ward/Courtesy Reuters).
In South Africa this week a group of emerging nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa itself, known as the BRICs (the moniker given by Goldman Sachs in 2001), gathered to launch their own development bank. The New York Times called the move “a direct challenge to the dominance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”
A girl plays soccer at sunset on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro on November 25, 2004 (Sergio Moraes/Courtesy Reuters).
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Katie Rock, a human rights attorney who is currently launching Activyst, a socially-conscious company that funds girls’ sports programs worldwide. Here, she discusses the benefits of girls’ involvement in sports and how to understand and overcome the obstacles to their participation.
Students of SIMAD University attend their graduation ceremony, along with over 600 other students, in Mogadishu on November 29, 2012 (Omar Faruk/Courtesy Reuters).
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Leonard Wantchekon, founder of the African School of Economics and professor at Princeton. He discusses his efforts to build a world-class university to train African scholars and practitioners in Benin.
A general view of the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda's Eastern Province (Courtesy Anne Heyman).
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Anne Heyman, chair of the board of directors at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Here, she discusses the importance of hiring and training local staff and partners in order to ensure the sustainability of development projects.
A Rwandan woman carries an umbrella for shade at Mulindi, about 60 km (40 miles) north of the capital Kigali on August 5, 2010 (Finbarr O'Reilly/Courtesy Reuters).
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Lisa Martilotta, a principle in Akilah Institute for Women, Rwanda’s first women’s college. She describes her organization’s efforts to link college education to employment opportunities for young women in Rwanda.
Boys look out of a window on bus as they return from school in Colombo, Sri Lanka on October 4, 2009 (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters).
Last week I introduced the SERF Index, a new measurement tool my colleagues Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and I have built to evaluate social and economic rights fulfillment. The new index sheds important light on the issues facing the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council, where Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala, Benin, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Pakistan, Zambia, Japan, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka will be evaluated on their human rights practices under applicable international human rights conventions from October 22 to November 5. This year’s session will be the fourteenth meeting of the Universal Periodic Review since its first session in March 2006. Read more »
The Liberian capital, Monrovia, October 2011 (Luc Gnago/Courtesy Reuters).
Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Blair Glencorse, Founder and Executive Director of the Accountability Lab. He analyzes the challenges of integrity and accountability in Liberia’s colleges and universities, arguing that failures in higher education threaten the country’s progress toward peace and development. You can follow Glencorse on his blog and on Twitter at @blairglencorse. Read more »
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In a post this week on her blog (reposted on Devex), CFR senior fellow Shannon O’Neil analyzed trends in inequality…
The Revenue Watch Institute has just released its 2013 Resource Governance Index and accompanying report, measuring countries’ transparency and accountability…
In a new CFR Backgrounder, CFR.org’s Christopher Alessi explores the lingering inequalities in South Africa’s economy and the obstacles to…
In this guest post, my colleague Rachel Vogelstein analyzes the issue of child marriage and its implications for U.S. policy…
In spite of the global economic turbulence of recent years, many countries in the global south are experiencing rapid growth….
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