March 27, 2023, RESEARCH Working Paper by Alessandro Gili, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Through infrastructure investments, economic integration, and green and digital transitions, the EU's Global Gateway will shape Africa and its cities as new hubs for development., Launched in December 2021,...

May 30, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Alaina Harkness, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This paper explores how city leaders can use economic power to narrow the gap in wealth and opportunity., Introduction, Research shows that intergenerational mobility—the “American dream” shared by most ...

World Review featured reporters from some of the world's leading media outlets to get their perspectives on emerging global stories and how they might unfold.

August 7, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Samuel Kling, Tinou Bao, Download Report (PDF), The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" promises to change how people move, with local and global ramifications., Introduction, The new paradigm of "mobility as a service" (MaaS)-offering myriad, integrat...

May 28, 2015, RESEARCH Book by Saeid Golkar, The authors of this book address multiple questions involving the nature of youth protest in the twenty-first century., Through the authors' use of a case study approach, they comment upon the ways in which youth protest has been influenced by electron...

June 23, 2009, RESEARCH Book by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, James Wiseman, Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, award-winning writers on Africa, development, and agriculture, explain through vivid human stories how our sometimes well-intentioned strategies—alternating with ignorance and neglect—...

March 30, 2017, RESEARCH Book by Roger Thurow, We revisit the families profiled in Council senior fellow Roger Thurow's book, The Last Hunger Season, six years later., Six years after its publication, Council senior fellow Roger Thurow returns to Western Kenya to revisit the farm families first p...

February 11, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Hope C. Michelson, Download Report (PDF), As retail-led agricultural marketing systems in emerging economies continue to develop, governments, NGOs, and companies can benefit from each other's experiences and examples to date., Executive Summary, Rapid urbani...

June 9, 2022, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ivo H. Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, iStock, Download Report (PDF), The world's democracies need a way to fight back against coercive economic actions by authoritarian governments, argue Ivo Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen., Increasingly, authoritaria...

April 21, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Robert Taylor, Marcin Jozwiak, Download Report (PDF), This report outlines two recommendations for how cities can address climate change overall and ultimately succeed in a lower-carbon world., Executive Summary, What role do global cities play in addressing cli...