Rigorous evidence of 'what works' to improve health care is in demand, but methods for the development of interventions have not been scrutinized in the same ways as methods for evaluation. The ...

The Arab Spring undoubtedly changed the political, economic, and security landscape in the Middle East and North Africa. More than four years after the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The 'resource curse' -- the tendency of resource wealth to impair natural resource exporting countries on various economic and political ...

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina-- Seventeen years and $17 billion later, Bosnia is at peace today, but it is stillborn. Today, the economy is stalled, with half of business activity generated by ...

The NATO campaign in Libya has just begun its second month, and the situation on the ground is not improving. The defenses of Misurata are deteriorating, and rebel forces appear to be falling back ...

This paper summarizes lessons learned from formative research conducted in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Mali and Nepal to inform the development of newborn health interventions, mostly in the context of ...

The Fraction Spacecraft intervention study’s aim is to compare the effects of virtual and concrete manipulatives in fourth and fifth graders learning of fractions and decimal numbers, as well as the ...

But within this new massive bombing campaign, one finds most of the vital lessons about Western intervention that, typically, are steadfastly ignored. First, as the New York Times’ background account ...

Israel’s recent attacks on military targets in Syria have made clear the widening regional dimensions of Syria’s civil war. They have also fuelled debate about whether the United States should ...