Too much writing about Africa assumes a homogenous culture throughout the continent. One of the great merits of MacLean’s smart and insightful study of Akan villages on both sides of the Ghana–Côte ...

There are many ways through which public authority is exercised by other actors than the state. Policies, just like politics, are often influenced by non-state actors and networks who do so through ...

NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three informal education organizations to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning to ...

NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) program has selected three additional informal education organizations to promote learning in STEM with the goal of ...

To spur growth and reduce poverty, poor countries will need efficient formal and informal institutions that support market activity. A major World Bank study offers insights into how such institutions ...

There is growing scholarly and policy awareness of the fact that public authority is rarely exercised only by the state. In fact, a host of actors and institutions – some visible and recognised, ...

A major recent study showed that informal science learning can play an important role in improving student learning in that subject. Such out-of-class learning can include trips to zoos or museums and ...

Environmental quality is influenced both by formal institutions, such as laws and policies, and by informal institutions, such as religious beliefs. However, the mechanism through which religious ...

Diana Højlund Madsen is a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Only a quarter of parliamentary seats across the world are occupied by women. In Africa, this figure masks ...

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index, which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. At the heart of the rankings are various ...

A woman offers money to beggars standing outside a pagoda on the first day of the Pchum Ben festival in Phnom Penh September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Samrang Pring Despite the rapid development of the ...