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As Mexico’s Tren Maya nears completion, locals are hopeful about a tourist boom – but worried about its impacts on water and ecosystems.

A lawsuit against the West African government over the Atewa Forest landscape elucidates the need to balance development and biodiversity.

The collapse of the steel industry hit Luxembourg's Belval region hard. Now a €2 billion project seeks to revitalize it through research and innovation.

The recovery and acceleration of economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa since about 1995 has been widely recognised. But less is known about the extent to which this growth has led to improvements in welfare and poverty reduction in particular. In our recently published, open-access book, we attempt to provide a comprehensive assessment of growth and […]

We are living in the most explosive era of infrastructure expansion in human history. The G20 nations, when they met in Australia in 2014, argued for between US$60 trillion and US$70 trillion in new infrastructure investments by 2030, which would more than double the global total value of infrastructure. Some of the key players in […]