International aid and private investments cannot succeed without a realistic understanding of the desires, knowledge, political economy, and capacity of the intended beneficiaries or local market.

A major challenge of economic development is implementing projects with high economic returns toward their proper completion. If that were an easily doable activity, few countries would be in poverty.

Based on internal data, this paper finds that the capacity development program of the IMF’s Statistics Department has prioritized technical assistance and training to fragile and conflict-affected ...

PAKISTAN has been less than successful in accessing international climate finance, and even less in implementing the approved projects in a timely or effective manner. Most projects at the na­­tional ...

Accelerated knowledge transfer aligned with scaled-up road safety investment will be central to overcoming country capacity weaknesses and achieving the ambitious Decade of Action goal to save five ...