The first breakthrough moment in this movement came in the early 1990s with the establishment and wide acceptance of the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI attempts to give a single concrete ...

The UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, composed of political appointees from every continent, recently issued a highly-anticipated report proposing a new framework for measuring ...

Urban development refers to the process of planning and improving urban areas to accommodate growing populations and enhance quality of life. This field intersects with social and human sciences, ...

To many people outside the advancement office, “development” and “fund raising” are synonymous. Casual observers equate the development office with raising money, pure and simple. To some extent, of ...