development

Making Eye Contact With a Baby Changes Both Your Brain Waves, Study Says

By Belinda Luscombe

Photographing Peru's Rapidly Changing Landscapes

By Alexandra Genova

Translation, Legal Advice and More: How Tech Helps Refugees

By The Aspen Institute

This Town Wants to Be the Country’s Most Sustainable

By Justin Worland
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Extreme Poverty Expected to Fall Below 10% of Global Population for First Time

"This is the best story in the world today"

By Joanna Plucinska

Softbank to Invest $20 Billion in Solar Energy in India

"Twice the sunshine, half the cost"

By Rohit Inani / New Delhi

How a Little Bribery Could Be a Good Thing

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Put a Woman in Charge of the UN

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

President Obama to Nominate Gayle E. Smith as USAID Chief

Currently serves as a senior director on the National Security Council

By Maya Rhodan

Save the Planet With More Energy, Not Less

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Extremely Premature Babies Face Developmental Issues, Study Says

A new study shows premature babies score lower on cognitive tests

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 4

1. ISIS is bringing recruits onto the battlefield faster than we can kill them.By Tim Mack and Nancy A. Youssef in the Daily Beast2. If body cameras become standard issue for police officers, how will...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 28

1. As pressure builds for U.S. military attention to Boko Haram in Nigeria, that nation’s political situation and past abuses complicate planning.By Kevin Baron and Molly O’Toole at Defense One2. What was once an “artist”...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 12

1. On the fifth anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, political strife is still the greatest obstacle to recovery.By Jacqueline Charles in the Miami Herald2. The U.S. uses economic sanctions because they don’t require a global...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 24

1. A bipartisan plan in North Carolina shrunk prison population and cut costs while the crime rate continued to fall. Can it serve as a model for other states?By the Justice Center at the Council...

By The Aspen Institute

Global Youth Population Swells to Record 1.8 Billion

The challenges are most acute for less developed countries, where 89% of the world's young people reside.

By Dan Kedmey

Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 14

1. Fix the system, don’t fight individual diseases: Why Ebola may change how aid dollars are spent on healthcare in Africa.By Lesley Wroughton at Reuters2. Plan for a global body to regulate the great promise...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 15

1. Relief organizations today are dangerously politicized and risk irrelevancy. To survive, they must evolve into decentralized networks for sharing knowledge, aid, and true humanity.By Paul Currion in Aeon2. There is more to measuring economic...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 14

1. Born of the war on terror, militarized civilian police forces have impacted civil rights and citizens’ lives.By Alex Kane at BillMoyers.com2. Turkey is finally in a position to carry some weight in Iraq –...

By The Aspen Institute

California Catastrophes: Why is the Golden State Always a Mess?

First it's droughts, then wildfires, then mudslides. But despite how it seems, the coast isn't really cursed

By Michael D. Lemonick
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