Lorenz Noe

Schoolgirls eat their free mid-day meals, distributed by a government-run primary school, in New Delhi May 8, 2013.

Are we reducing hunger in the world?

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Friday, April 5, 2019

A child sits outside a locked shack in Nkaneng township, Marikana's informal settlement, in Rustenburg

Poverty, hunger, and malnutrition: Challenges and breakthroughs for rural revitalization

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Assoumpata Uwamariya works on a beetroot farm in Rubavu district, Western province, Rwanda October 3, 2018. Pictures taken October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana - RC1C11560B50

World Food Day 2018: The elusive quest to end hunger

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago speaks at IMFC joint press conference with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1983EAB0E0

How should official development assistance be allocated across countries?

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Friday, September 14, 2018

A woman, who has been displaced by floods, uses a USAID box to move her belongings while taking refuge on an embankment at Chandan Mori village in Dadu, some 320 km (199 miles) north of Karachi October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E6AA1O2701

The link between foreign aid and domestic social spending

Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe

Thursday, February 1, 2018

A maize plant is seen among other dried maize at a field in Hoopstad, a maize-producing district in the Free State province, South Africa, January 13, 2016. South Africa suffered its driest year on record in 2015, the national weather service said on Thursday, as a drought that has threatened the vital maize crop and hit economic growth showed no sign of abating. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF20000094471

When will things change? Looking for signs of progress on ending rural hunger

Geoffrey Gertz, Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Lorenz Noe

Saturday, October 14, 2017

A farmer holds up dried corn kernels, donated by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) food reserves, during a distribution of food aid to families affected by the drought in the village of Orocuina, August 28, 2014. A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations WFP said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been largely unscathed. The drought, which is also affecting South America, has been particularly hard on the so-called "dry corridor" of Central America, which includes southern Guatemala, northern Honduras and western El Salvador. "The drought has killed us. We lost all our corn and beans," said Olman Funez, a 22-year-old farmer who lives in Orocuina, a rural town in southern Honduras. Picture taken August 28, 2014. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera (HONDURAS - Tags: AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT FOOD SOCIETY) - RTR44AR1

Ending rural hunger

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Geoffrey Gertz, and Lorenz Noe

October 2016

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The global poverty gap is falling. Billionaires could help close it.

Laurence Chandy, Lorenz Noe, and Christine Zhang

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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Ending rural hunger

Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Sinead Mowlds, Lorenz Noe, and Krista Rasmussen

Monday, October 19, 2015