Cornell University's newly launched research initiative places food insecurity, poverty, agriculture, health, education, and market issues under the same analytical framework, reflecting a shift in global development research from single disciplinary approaches to interdisciplinary systems thinking. This article interprets the deeper implications of this trend from the perspectives of global governance, ESG, and long-term sustainable development.
In 2026, the global development landscape faces deep challenges such as geopolitical fragmentation, multipolar competition, and the rising autonomy of the Global South. Based on an IDOS policy brief, this article analyzes four key issues: China's transformation, Russia's influence, democratic backsliding, and the adjustment of Southern middle powers, and explores future paths for global governance.
One article to understand the geopolitical shifts facing global development in 2026, China's role transformation, Russia's disruptive influence, trends in non-democratic governance, and the rise of middle powers, offering insight into the direction of restructuring the international cooperation system.
Based on the latest research in Nature Communications, analyze how subnational human development inequalities amplify climate-related disaster risks, and explore their profound impacts on global development, ESG investment, and climate governance.
At the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum held in Beijing, Liberia called on the international community to shift from short-term aid to long-term investment, reflecting the global poverty reduction agenda’s shift from project-oriented approaches to system building, from governance by averages to prioritizing vulnerable groups, and also highlighting how climate, debt, food security, and employment issues are reshaping global development cooperation.
Around the new collaboration between Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism and Google Kenya, this article analyzes how the tourism industry is shifting from a traditional foreign-exchange sector to a data-driven public governance scenario, from the perspectives of digital infrastructure, AI applications, skills training, and cultural digitization, and discusses the practical constraints faced by Global South countries in development finance, the digital divide, and ESG transformation.
Starting from the governance realities of the nonprofit sector, this article analyzes how climate change has shifted from an environmental issue into a composite variable of public services, social equity, disaster resilience, and development financing, and discusses the long-term impact of this shift on global development, ESG, and international cooperation.
A study covering more than 67,000 vascular plant species shows that climate change is rapidly shrinking the suitable habitats of many species, with up to about 16% of species potentially losing more than 90% of their range by the end of this century. This is not only a biodiversity issue; it will also affect food security, water resources, land use, public services, and the logic of ESG investing.