The World Bank, flagship of the world’s international development funds, faces questions about its relevance as a scandal topples its president and a series of smaller challengers sap its authority.

On Aug. 15, 1947, British colonial rule in South Asia officially ended. The four independent states that eventually emerged in its place — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all faced urgent ...

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On Monday, October 6, the authority of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to conduct its mission to eradicate poverty and advance U.S. foreign policy objectives through ...

While the UK government’s newly published International Development Strategy sets out some laudable aims, there are reasons to be sceptical about its potential impact on global poverty. The strategy ...

The MSc in Development Management gives you the theory and practical tools to drive such transformations forward by enabling you to understand why some societies have succeeded and others have failed.

In the winter of 1987, the Philippine Star, a newspaper based out of the country’s capital in Manila, ran an article with a line that might have turned heads across the world in Cambridge: “Do we have ...

Critical gender studies and international development studies are both interdisciplinary, but intellectual agility can ensure they are inclusive sites of knowledge production. To develop intellectual ...

Study this specialist programme designed for current and aspiring practitioners and thinkers who shape, manage or critique policies addressing today’s global development challenges. Combining rigorous ...