Global Economy and Development

A vegetables seller waits for customers at Bara taxi rank, during a nationwide lockdown, aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Soweto, South Africa, April 23,2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

COVID-19 and the future of work in Africa: How to shore up incomes for informal sector workers

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Schoolgirls eat their free mid-day meal, distributed by a government-run primary school, in New Delhi July 5, 2013. In an incident on July 16, 2013, twenty-five Indian children from a school in Mashrakh village in the district of Chapra died and dozens needed hospital treatment after apparently being poisoned by a school meal, provided under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, sparking violent protests and angry allegations of blame. Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. ATTENTION EDITORS - Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. Picture taken July 5, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: FOOD EDUCATION SOCIETY)

Education in the time of COVID-19: Reflections from the Charcha 2020 Forum

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A building and a sculpture are reflected on glass in a wealthy neighborhood, during a general quarantine imposed due to a surge of fresh coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Santiago, Chile May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Financing and debt management for emerging market economies

José Antonio Ocampo

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) lift empty ballot boxes at a voting station during the Presidential, Legislative and Communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Gitega, Burundi May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana

Africa in the news: Burundi, Benin, South Sudan, and COVID-19 updates

Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 23, 2020

A worker is seen sampling packaged phosphate at a packing warehouse at the Dorowa mine in Hwedza, Zimbabwe October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

The African Continental Free Trade Area and measures to facilitate trade could significantly mitigate COVID-19’s economic impact in Africa

Nassim Oulmane, Mustapha Sadni Jallab, and Patrice Rélouendé Zidouemba

Friday, May 22, 2020

Migrant workers clean fields amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Salinas Valley near Salinas, California, U.S., March 30, 2020. Picture taken March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Less gratitude, please. How COVID-19 reveals the need for migration reform

Friday, May 22, 2020

A nurse attends to a child suffering from effects of drinking contaminated water from a well, at a hospital in Yaqshid district in Somalia's capital Mogadishu December 13, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: FOOD HEALTH SOCIETY)

Figures of the week: Perceptions of health in sub-Saharan Africa before the pandemic

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Christy Hagman prepares boxes of food at the C3 Church Food Pantry in Portland, Ore., on April 21, 2020. The pantry has seen demand triple as a result of the novel coronavirus but thanks to generous donations from larger grocery outlets they have been able to continue to provide an essential community service. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Protecting our economy and our health in a pandemic

Carol Graham and Benjamin Miller

Thursday, May 21, 2020

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building as seen with masked pedestrians speaking in the foreground, in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Today as the American death toll neared 85,000, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve warned that the potential economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic had no modern precedent, and without strong Congressional action it could cause a wave of bankruptcies leading to permanent economic damage.(Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Americans want global engagement on fighting COVID-19

Thursday, May 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A worker gathers items for delivery from the warehouse floor at Amazon's distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona November 22, 2013. REUTERS/Ralph D. Freso/File Photo

The government should pay businesses and workers to be productive, not to do nothing

Dennis J. Snower

Thursday, May 21, 2020