Global Economy and Development

A boat of customs' officers sails next to Lisbon's port, Portugal, October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante - RTX2PWZ8

Out of the danger zone and toward more robust investment: Can the EIB deliver?

Merrell Tuck-Primdahl

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Children attend the opening of a psychological support centre for children in Da'el town, north of Deraa, Syria, August 1, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir - RTX1MONN

Skills for a changing world: The global movement to prepare students for the 21st century

Monday, April 24, 2017

Storm clouds hover as a cyclist rides past a field of maize after late rains near Malawi's capital Lilongwe, February 1, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs.About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX24Z7D

Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A high school student tests a "Quipus" laptop during a presentation ceremony in El Alto, July 31, 2014. Some 15,000 public school students received the laptops, assembled by Bolivian state-run company Quipus, during the ceremony. According to local media, El Alto schools will receive a total of some 140,000 laptops this year as part of a government initiative to provide final-year high school students with access to a new laptop, aiming to incorporate the use of new technology in educational institutions. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTR40UBC

Teaching for the 21st century: Broader skills for global citizens

Esther Care, Sean Slade, Ramya Vivekanandan, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A U.S. Army Marines helicopter is loaded with goods from U.S.relief organization U.S. Aid to be deployed to survivors of the Super Typhoon Haiyan at Tacloban airport November 17, 2013. The Philippine and U.S. Air Forces are flying rice, clothes and drinking water into remote areas of the central Philippines, which are unreachable by vehicles. A massive relief effort is finally kicking into gear, nine days after one of the most powerful typhoons on record wreaked havoc across the impoverished area in the central Philippines with monster winds and a deadly storm surge of sea water. Philippine authorities and international aid agencies face a mounting humanitarian crisis, with the number of people displaced by the catastrophe estimated at 4 million, up from 900,000 late last week. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT MILITARY) - RTX15GU3

Myths about U.S. foreign aid

Friday, April 7, 2017

A bank clerk counts Chinese yuan

On U.S.-China trade policy

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Steam rises from the stakes of the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine that is owned by energy firm PacifiCorp and the Idaho Power Company, outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming March 14, 2014. West Virginia mined 120 million tons (109 metric tons) of coal in 2012, second to Wyoming, or about 12 percent of total U.S. production. Kentucky was third with about 9 percent of output, according to the National Mining Association. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS) - RTR3H5NS

Dismantling the Clean Power Plan

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a schedule signing ceremony of executive orders on trade at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

On Trump’s trade executive orders

Friday, March 31, 2017

Schoolgirls attend a lesson at a school that reopened after a gap of more than a year and a half because of clashes in Benghazi, Libya December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori - RTX1ZH94

WATCH: Pathways for scaling up quality education in developing countries

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Priyanka Varma

Thursday, March 30, 2017

A worker chats with residents at a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - RTSXKER

U.S.-Mexico relations: Beyond “America first” rhetoric

Dany Bahar, Vanda Felbab-Brown, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, March 29, 2017