UNU research provides guidance for navigating the changing geo-economic landscape while more effectively monitoring and evaluating economic progress and its social impacts. Our work in Africa, for example, is helping establish robust information systems to monitor and evaluate economic progress and its social impacts, thereby helping planners to transform skewed development into opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.
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Blog Post
AI & Global Governance: Artificial Intelligence for All - A Call for Equity in the 4th Industrial Revolution
As we delegate more tasks and decisions to AI systems, how will humans minimise harm and maximize benefit?
Blog Post
AI & Global Governance: AI for Mass Flourishing
Empowering "AI from the streets" to strengthen global connectivity, diversify knowledge, and secure shared digital futures.
Blog Post
AI & Global Governance: Supporting the Ties that Bind
How will AI and robotic systems change human relationships?
Project
Defining the Resilient City
The application of resilience for urban environments in contexts of fragility.
Project
Conceptualizing City Fragility and Resilience
A preliminary analytical framework that re-conceptualizes fragility and resilience at the city level.
Media Coverage
Where Are the World's Most Fragile Cities?
Cities, not nation states, are defining the shape and character of security and development in the twenty first century.
Project
Meeting the Challenges of the 2030 Agenda: Alternative Forms of Development Cooperation and the United Nations
How development cooperation is rapidly evolving, emerging trends, and the role of the UN in development coordination.
Project
A New Set of Views on Indian Foreign Policy
A comprehensive exploration of India's foreign policy evolution, focusing on historical, geographical, capability, and leadership factors.
Media Coverage
Now is the Time to Strengthen Japan-India Ties
India and Japan have a number of converging or complementary interests that should push them towards a closer partnership.
News
Workshop Shares Results of 2013 Leadership Training Programme in Africa
On 19 June 2014, UNU-IAS held a reporting session on the Global Leadership Training Programme in Africa.