Homi Kharas

Financial chart with upward arrow drawn in pencil

Status check: Managing debt sustainability and development priorities through a ‘Big Push’

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Friday, October 29, 2021

Debt service risks, Special Drawing Rights allocations, and development prospects

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Daily wage laborers and homeless people wait in a queue to receive free food during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi. (Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Lima, Peru.- In the photos taken on November 20, 2020, it shows rural families, dedicated to different livestock activities in Lima, Peru. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the informal employment rate at the national level increased from 73% in the first quarter of this year to 75.2% in the third quarter, thus reaching the value highest in more than eight years. Today, almost eight out of ten jobs are informal.

Debt distress and development distress: Twin crises of 2021

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Guatemala City, Guatemala.- In the photos, it shows the indigenous rural areas of Guatemala during the crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. A special UN report reveals that Latin American and Caribbean countries face the highest per capita levels of Covid-19; in addition to a fall in its economy of 9.1 percent for the region in 2020, which will undoubtedly be the largest in 100 years, which will translate into 45 million more people living in poverty compared to last year, affecting more the countries of Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

Global development cooperation in a COVID-19 world

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Lima, Peru.- Peruvians claim the new bonus granted by the state as an economic aid in the midst of the pandemic on December 10, 2020. More than 52 thousand workers of micro-enterprises benefited from the bonus of S / 760 for perfect suspension of labor, economic compensation that is delivered to mitigate the economic impact generated by Covid-19.

COVID-19’s legacy of debt and debt service in developing countries

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Antananarivo / Madagascar - October 21, 2011: Laundry hangs on clothes lines on balconies of a run down high-rise apart.ment building

Poverty hotspots and the correlates of subnational development

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Selen Özdoğan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Cover of the Great Transitions report

Great Transitions: Doubling down on the Sustainable Development Goals

Monday, November 30, 2020

KMC (Kolkata Mucicipal corporation) health workers check for fever among residents of a slum area in Kolkata midst the 2nd phase of lockdown in India due to covid 19 pandemic. This is to curb the spread of Covid 19 in the country. The second phase is handled with more strict rules by the administration. Kolkata, West Bengal, India April 23, 2020 Photo by Arindam Mukherjee/ABACAPRESS.COM

Horizon 2025—End of the beginning: Development cooperation in the pandemic age

Monday, November 30, 2020

Sustainable Development Goals: How can they be a handrail for recovery?

Homi Kharas and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, November 17, 2020