It is hard to argue with the premise that leadership matters. Whether in plain view or behind the scenes, good leaders are at the heart of successful organizations, coalitions, and movements. Yet ...

As part of the celebration for World Statistics Day 2015, Lenni Montiel, UN DESA’s Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, hosted a Twitter chat to put the spotlight on the pivotal role ...

Measuring the productivity of product development is a complex and multi-faceted task, significantly different from manufacturing operations. Output from manufacturing is increasingly automated and ...

Of all the challenges involved in military-humanitarian assistance, measuring success is perhaps the most difficult as well as the most vital. Of all the challenges involved in military-humanitarian ...

Software development and deployment cycles keep accelerating, thanks in large part to artificial intelligence (AI), which can generate code and make suggestions. Even with such hyper-productivity, IT ...

It is easy to learn the average income of a resident of El Salvador or Albania. But there is no systematic source of information on the average income of a Salvadoran or Albanian. We estimate a new ...

This week, the government announced that economic growth in the first quarter this year was 5.7 percent (pna.gov.ph, 5/9/2024), and boasted that it outpaced the growth percentages of China (5.3) and ...

Every child develops at their own pace. That's why it's useful to measure development in a uniform way. We can use this to track an individual child's development over time or compare groups of ...