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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” that funds affordable housing has probably led to a drop-off in overall apartment construction, potentially worsening the city’s housing situation, according to a new report ...

This paper introduces a novel measure of firm-level Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research & Development—the AIR Index—derived from the semantic similarity between earnings conference call transcripts ...

Measuring Development is the Development Impact Group’s flagship annual conference organized in partnership with the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley and the World Bank's ...

Atlassian Corp. announced its largest acquisition to date with its $1 billion cash-and-stock deal for developer productivity platform DX. The move comes as enterprises struggle to quantify returns on ...

Hollister is 45 miles south of downtown San Jose — a small town that can seem a world away from the freeways and office towers of Silicon Valley. But a measure heading to voters this fall could have ...

THE Philippines is losing export revenues due to the lack of a National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) law, a measure that aims to ensure local industries’ compliance with international standards, the ...