Global Economy and Development

Bristol City Center Aerial View in England UK

A conversation with Marvin Rees, mayor of Bristol

Max Bouchet and Landon Webber

Friday, August 7, 2020

Phone with TikTok app open, over U.S. and Chinese flags

Why is the Trump administration banning TikTok and WeChat?

Friday, August 7, 2020

Ayak Chol Deng, 31, an epidemiologist, spoken word poet, activist, and a founding member of Ana Taban, poses for a photograph at her home in Juba, South Sudan, April 20, 2017. Deng was born in a refugee camp in Gambela, briefly lived in Cuba as a child, and then studied and lived in Kharoum, Sudan and Nairobi, Kenya. She is divorced and a mother of three. "I hope for better serviced institutions, better opportunities for youth, a country where I don't need to be from a specific tribe," said Deng. In one of her poems, she writes: "Heal this spirit that's broken, piece together pieces of me, my affiliation, or tongue, colour, politics, restore what’s human in me, peace, come find me, enrich this fist choking, un-taint my disputes, resonating, unhinge my words, elevating, unleash a conciliation, everlasting, peace, come find me." REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu SEARCH "CAMPEANU ANA TABAN" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Taking distance learning ‘offline’: Lessons learned from navigating the digital divide during COVID-19

Angelica Towne Amporo and Hawah Nabbuye

Friday, August 7, 2020

African children in a koranic school classroom, Tonkpi Region, Man, Ivory Coast.NO USE FRANCE

Scaling impact in education to reach the world’s most vulnerable children

Jenny Perlman Robinson, Patrick Hannahan, and Fred Dews

Friday, August 7, 2020

World map superimposed over city skyline

How to make the most of city diplomacy in the COVID-19 era

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Binary code superimposed on the European Union flag

The Court of Justice of the European Union in Schrems II: The impact of GDPR on data flows and national security

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Factory officials take samples of cocoa beans at a cocoa processing factory in Ile-Oluji village in Ondo state, southwest Nigeria March 29, 2016. Picture taken March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - GF10000374278

Leveraging the employment potential of industries without smokestacks

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Zaki El-Dine, 24, a brick-maker, pours water from the Nile river onto a patch of mud to make bricks on Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "BENSEMRA NILE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Graduation cap on $100 bills, representing student debt

Low-income households falling further behind on student debt due to COVID-19

Jason Jabbari, Olga Kondratjeva, Mathieu Despard, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Children with teacher on a computer

What do we know about the expansion of K-12 computer science education?

Emiliana Vegas and Brian Fowler

Tuesday, August 4, 2020