Developing Countries

A boy carries a charred brick to build the boundary wall of his burnt hut after a fire broke out in a slum area in New Delhi April 12, 2013(REUTERS/Adnan Abidi).

Report

The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Report)

April 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

Laurence Chandy, Veronika Penciakova and Natasha Ledlie examine the prospects for ending extreme poverty by 2030 and the factors that will determine progress toward this goal based on key findings in global poverty reduction over the past 20 years.

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There are a crop of people at the bottom of the barrel still that are not being affected by the progress that’s being made [in the goal of universal access to primary education for all children].
April 22, 2013, Rebecca Winthrop, New York Times
In the News

[China is] also investing quite a bit in manufacturing. It’s also investing in construction. So one of the good things about Chinese engagement with Africa has been infrastructure development.
March 28, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Marketplace
In the News

Maybe one of the problems is that special envoys [and journalists] have not been good at telling the story of what goes on [in Africa.] But I can tell you there is a story to be told because I have been brought in on some of these consultations, and this administration with regard to Africa policy has been the most open to input from the scholarly and expert community as ever.
November 12, 2012, Richard Joseph, Voice of America
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[The Myanmar government] is making progress across the board on the political front, though on the social and economic fronts things are going slowly. But I don’t know of anybody who expected them to make the progress that they have at this point.
September 19, 2012, Lex Rieffel, Los Angeles Times
In the News

When we talk about poverty in the developing world, we use an absolute poverty line of a dollar a day. It doesn't matter whether the country grows richer over time, we stick with that same measure. Whereas in…Western countries, we use a relative measure of poverty, which does change over time [and] does change with the fortunes of the other people in the economy.
September 5, 2012, Laurence Chandy, CNN
In the News

There are two types of companies: those that focus on efficiency and innovation and can thrive in a competitive, level playing field, and those that derive gains from rent-seeking (and outright bribery), monopolistic behavior or tax avoidance.
August 23, 2012, Daniel Kaufmann, New York Times
In the News

It should be pointed out that quite a bit of aid goes to settings which are very challenging in terms of governance...we find that some donors that give aid are pretty good at choosing countries that may have relatively high corruption today, but in a few years, we track and see that aid is effective and corruption reduces over time.
August 9, 2012, Daniel Kaufmann, Voice of America
Interview

A Conversation on Priorities for Secretary Clinton's Trip to Africa

August 2, 2012, Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Haroon Bhorat
Podcast

@ Brookings Podcast: Challenges for Women in the African Economy

May 11, 2012, Anne W. Kamau
In the News

The epidemic of road traffic injury is a source of poverty, human suffering and economic waste on a global scale. Over the next two decades, the number of vehicles in the world's poorest countries will increase at an unprecedented rate. Unlike some of the issues that will be discussed at the Rio+20 summit, there are few unknowns in road safety. It's not rocket science, yet progress has been painfully slow.
May 2, 2012, Kevin Watkins, The Guardian