Global Economy and Development

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures during a meeting with governors, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil January 27, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

What’s next for Brazil and Lula after the January 8 insurrection?

Ted Piccone and David Dollar

Monday, February 6, 2023

Women protest denouncing the violence that took place against them at an earlier protest against the military, in Omdurman, Sudan December 23, 2021. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

Sudanese women advancing justice and equality since the 1920s

Rogaia Abusharaf and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Boyd Farmhouse Inn, DeWitt, Arkansas (photo by Colin Cruickshank)

An entrepreneurial spark in DeWitt, Arkansas

Anthony F. Pipa

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

People walk past the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S. January 19, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The politics of the debt ceiling debate in Congress

Molly E. Reynolds and David Dollar

Monday, January 23, 2023

Sign: "Where the Southern Crosses the Yellow Dog" (photo by Colin Cruickshank)

Building on a legacy of community resilience in Sunflower County, Mississippi

Anthony F. Pipa

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

The Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and Nikkei share average are displayed on a monitor inside the dealing room at the foreign exchange trading company Gaitame.com in Tokyo, Japan November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Previewing the US and global economies in 2023

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and David Dollar

Monday, January 9, 2023

A general view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess for the lame duck session, the 7-day average for confirmed COVID-19 cases in America is holding above 150,000. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

A visit to Washington, DC: The state of federal rural policy

Anthony F. Pipa

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture and Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senegalese President Macky Sall participate in the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on Dec. 15, 2022. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)No Use *** World Rights ***.

Did the US-Africa Leaders Summit meet its objectives?

Aloysius Uche Ordu and David Dollar

Monday, December 19, 2022

From simulation to scale: Tools for effective costing of early learning and ECD programs

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Sand begins to surround houses close to the town of Ambovombe, Androy region, Madagascar, February 15, 2022. Madagascar has always known extreme weather events, but scientists say these will likely increase as human-induced climate change pushes temperatures higher. Four years of drought, along with deforestation caused by people burning or cutting down trees to make charcoal or to open up land for farming, have transformed the area into a dust bowl. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEARCH "GLOBAL POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2022 PACKAGES.

Dispatches from Africa’s COP: Malagasy youth on Madagascar’s beauty and the climate risks it faces

Fenitra Jérémiah, Anja Radoharinirina, and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, December 8, 2022