Global Economy and Development
Founded in 2006, the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings aims to shape the policy debate on how to improve global economic cooperation and fight global poverty and sources of social stress. With a long-term vision of strong, sustainable, and balanced growth for a prosperous world, the program undertakes high-quality research, identifies target audiences and policy opportunities, and shares its findings to inform new policy solutions.
Africa is the world's breadbasket—or should be. It has vast arable land, grows a wide variety of crops and has vast irrigation potential with seven major rivers. Yet, Africa imported $43 billion worth of food items in 2019. Digital technologies ... are eliminating the traditional inefficiencies of smallholder food production and helping to close the yield gap.
You’re taking the DFC down a slippery slope of being a national security agency instead of a development agency.
[Morocco's Noor solar plant has] tremendous impact in terms of both a development outcome, but preventing, in some sense, that much emissions.
The state of Africa’s free trade agreement and strategies for greater integration
Girls’ education research and policy symposium: Protecting rights and futures in times of crisis
Technology, inequality, and democracy
Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly
Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development
Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
