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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

A worker from a telecommunications company inspects a 5G technology device connected to an experimental 5G network, in Santiago, Chile March 22, 2021. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Bridging the global digital divide: A platform to advance digital development in low- and middle-income countries

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

San Luis Obispo, USA - April 19, 2020: people enjoy a warm spring day in the old town of San Luis opisto at the main historic Monterey street.

The new ‘rural’? The implications of OMB’s proposal to redefine nonmetro America

Anthony F. Pipa and Natalie Geismar

Thursday, March 18, 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

Crisscrossing highways

How federal infrastructure investment can put America to work

Marcela Escobari, Dhruv Gandhi, and Sebastian Strauss

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Cover of the 2020 17 Rooms annual report

17 Rooms: A new approach to spurring action for the Sustainable Development Goals

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

WASHINGTON - AUGUST 2, 2020: USAID Agency for International Development flag with emblem seal outside headquarters building. USAID is the agency that administers foreign aid.

Making USAID a premier development agency

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. - DEC 18, 2009: department of state board on December 18, 2009 in Washington, D.C., USA. Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States

Partnership among cities, states, and the federal government: Creating an office of subnational diplomacy at the US Department of State

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet

Wednesday, February 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

Hands holding a a globe like a Rubik's cube

COVID-19 exposes a changed world: A prescription for renewing US global partnership

Tuesday, January 12, 2021