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 ...

Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

As the old saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. But of course, what you measure is important too. In this episode of The Development Podcast, we explore how the World Bank Group ...

Three major foundations are abandoning feel-good metrics for hard data on economic transformation, pioneering new ways to measure whether their workforce investments create lasting change. In 2008, ...

Scientists have come up with a new discovery that could transform our understanding of how childhood growth and development are measured – the DNA clock. The study, published in the Proceedings of the ...

Organs in the human body have complex networks of fluid-filled tubes and loops. They come in different shapes and their three-dimensional structures are differently connected to each other, depending ...

UN DESA’s Statistics Division plays a vital role in collecting and analyzing data from around the world. On 28 February – 2 March, the 43rd session of the Statistical Commission will consider issues ...

Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a one degree warming of average global surface temperatures over the past century. As the planet ...

THIS WEEKEND'S meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund take place as interest in the problems of poor countries grows. In the past few years, the annual summits of the Group of ...