Raj M. Desai

Antananarivo, Madagascar, Africa -January 11 2020: An aerial view of a group of poor children in a slum of the madagascan city. Malagasy kids play with tires in the dirt, surrounded by hanging laundry

Over 1 billion people live in poverty hotspots

Raj M. Desai, Homi Kharas, and Selen Özdoğan

Wednesday, December 2, 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

Economic adjustment in conflict-affected and fragile states in Africa: Lessons from Somalia

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

Abdulahi Abuker weaves threads into traditional garments, preserving a Somali tradition that is under threat from a flood of inexpensive clothes imported from China and other countries, in the Madina district of Mogadishu, Somalia.September 13, 2019.Picture taken September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - RC1156B19070

Somalia’s path to stability

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

The pan-aurora borealis is visible over Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington at night in this NASA handout photo received by Reuters on February 10, 2012. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (CANADA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - GM1E82B0OFX01

The geography of poverty hotspots

Jennifer L. Cohen, Raj M. Desai, and Homi Kharas

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

An Egyptian holds a piece of bread to protest against the high prices of goods in Tahrir square in Cairo February 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS) - GM1E92900KZ01

Fear and loathing in the global middle class

Monday, October 29, 2018

From Summits to Solutions

Edited by Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John McArthur

2018

U.S. President Trump delivers first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington

Brookings experts on Trump’s first State of the Union

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Tulio Medina (C) and Jennifer Vivas (centre R), parents of Eliannys Vivas, who died from diphtheria, pose for a photo with two of their children at the front porch of their home in Pariaguan, Venezuela January 26, 2017. Picture taken January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RTX30FRR

Is a growing middle class good for the poor? Social policy in a time of globalization

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas

Thursday, July 13, 2017

QUALITY REPEATMaria Rita, 43, carries collected water at the Kaeta settlement in Maracas in Bahia state, northeast Brazil May 4, 2012. While a swath of the Brazilian Amazon is under a state of emergency as rivers overflow in one of the worst floods ever, the country's northeastern region faces its worst drought in the last 30 years, affecting well over 500 towns and cities, according to data from different government monitoring agencies. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes - RTSIMKD

Rethinking the universalism versus targeting debate

Wednesday, May 31, 2017