Global Economy and Development

Lagos, Nigeria.-In the photos, it shows the streets of Lagos during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. David Nabarro, special adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments not to use quarantine as the main strategy to control the spread of COVID-19 and warned of the increase in poverty as a result of the restrictions . "At the World Health Organization we do not advocate quarantines as the main means of controlling this virus," Nabarro said.

Poverty and fragility: Where will the poor live in 2030?

Jasmin Baier, Marina Buch Kristensen, and Søren Davidsen

Monday, April 19, 2021

A relative of one of the missing school girls reacts in Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe, after an attack on the village by Boko Haram, Nigeria February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Student kidnappings threaten collapse of Nigerian education system

Adedeji Adeniran and Marco Castradori

Monday, April 19, 2021

An employee works at a JD.com logistics centre in Langfang, Hebei province, November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo

East Asia leads e-commerce and the digital trade revolution

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Monday, April 19, 2021

A worker weaves a carpet from the fibre extracted from the sheaths of banana trunks at the TexFad plant in Sonde settlement of Mukono near Kampala, Uganda, April 3, 2021. Picture taken April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

It’s easy to exaggerate the scope of the jobs problem in Africa. The real story is nuanced.

Monday, April 19, 2021

A woman casts her ballot at the pooling station during the presidential election in N'Djamena, Chad April 11, 2021. REUTERS/ Media Coulibaly NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Africa in the news: Uganda oil pipeline, (fewer) locusts in East Africa, and political updates

Christina Golubski, Leo Holtz, and Tamara White

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Students sit at a computer in British Columbia.

How British Columbia implemented its computer science education program

Brian Fowler, Yuri Nesen, and Emiliana Vegas

Friday, April 16, 2021

Shopping basket sitting on various currencies

Sustainable Development Spotlight: Twin crises of debt and development distress

Friday, April 16, 2021

Two gas flaring furnaces and a woman walking on sand barriers are reflected in a pool of oil-smeared water at a flow station in Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria September 17, 2020. Picture taken September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Figure of the week: COVID’s impacts on the Nigerian extractive sector

Friday, April 16, 2021

Syrian refugees walk near tents at an informal tented settlement in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon March 12, 2021. Picture taken March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a crisis within a crisis

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Thursday, April 15, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Health workers chat near an ambulance at the parking lot of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, amid a nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, in Pretoria, South Africa, January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

COVID-19 crisis: G-20 and debt sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

Kathrin Berensmann, Aloysius Uche Ordu, and Lemma Senbet

Wednesday, April 14, 2021