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This white paper was produced by a group of activists, researchers and data experts who met at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre to discuss the question of whether, and how, …

The Rockefeller Foundation envisions a world in which globalization’s benefits are more widely shared and the inevitable challenges that accompany the increased dynamism and volatility are more easily weathered. Without …

Southeast Asia is already experiencing climate change effects: typhoons in the Philippines are now four times more frequent than before 1990; sea level rise is increasing the erosion rate in …

Malnutrition—and particularly protein deficiency—remains a challenge for many poor people across West Africa, compromising or stunting the physical and mental development of millions of children. While overall nutrition has improved …

This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by IIED in partnership with Plan International on urban children’s risk and agency in four large Asian cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu …

Impact investment is a strategy to align the power of private markets to the social and environmental development needs of society at-large. From 2012-13, The Rockefeller Foundation, through its impact …

The City Resilience Framework is a unique framework developed by Arup with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, based on extensive research in cities. It provides a lens to understand the …

This manifesto for transforming public health calls for a social movement to support collective public health action at all levels of society—personal, community, national, regional, global, and planetary. Our aim …

Cities have never been more important for human well-being and economic prosperity. Half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, while about 80 per cent of the world’s output …

Youth unemployment has been a persistent and growing problem in the United States for decades, reaching a more than 50-year high in the wake of the Great Recession. At the end of …