Global Economy and Development

A labourer works at a coking plant in Changzhi, north China's Shanxi province, July 7, 2007. Starting off in Sydney on Saturday and travelling west around the world, the Live Earth concerts, planned for this weekend, are expected to attract more than a million people to raise awareness of global warming and environmental issues like climate change. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT - RTR1RJUT

On Trump’s climate executive order

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Workers unload shipments of vegetables from Mexico at SunFed produce packing and shipping warehouse in Nogales, Arizona, U.S., January 30, 2017. Picture taken January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RTSYWBC

NAFTA, trade deals, and Trump

Joshua P. Meltzer

Monday, March 27, 2017

Children walk to school in Kharay, Dolkha District, some 190 km (118 miles) northeast of Kathmandu September 15, 2013. Devi Budhathoki and three of her children, Manjura, Mandira, and Niraj all suffer from Congenital Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa, a very rare disease that causes excessive body hair growth, and which is sometimes referred to as "werewolf syndrome". They are undergoing laser hair removal in order to lessen their symptoms. Picture taken September 15, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY EDUCATION) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 07 OF 37 FOR PICTURE PACKAGE "LIVING WITH 'WEREWOLF SYNDROME'". TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'BUDHATHOKI' - RTX1522K

Scaling to sustainability: Meeting the challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals

Jenny Perlman Robinson, John McArthur, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Men unload boxes of nutritional supplements from an helicopter prior to a humanitarian food distribution

On cuts to foreign aid

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

People crowd a street at the central business district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos ahead of Christmas December 23, 2016.

Africa in 2017: Innovation, employment, and governance

Amadou Sy, Witney Schneidman, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 1, 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

Thunder is not yet rain: Sustaining progress towards realizing Africa’s vision

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Subsistence farmer Joice Chimedza harvests maize on her small plot in Norton, a farming area outside Zimbabwe's capital Harare, May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo. - RTX2DNC6

WATCH: A framework for building resilience to climate change through girls’ education programming

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Grace Debroha, a 13-year-old orphan, writes the names of body parts on a chalkboard at St. Jude's Orphanage, outside Gulu, June 10, 2007. REUTERS/Edward Ou (UGANDA) - RTR1QO56

WATCH: Policies for Senior Women Teachers to improve girls’ secondary education

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Children walk to school in Kharay, Dolkha District, some 190 km (118 miles) northeast of Kathmandu September 15, 2013. Devi Budhathoki and three of her children, Manjura, Mandira, and Niraj all suffer from Congenital Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa, a very rare disease that causes excessive body hair growth, and which is sometimes referred to as "werewolf syndrome". They are undergoing laser hair removal in order to lessen their symptoms. Picture taken September 15, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY EDUCATION)

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WATCH: Empowering adolescent girls in rural Nepal

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Students arrive at the start of a social event advocating against harmful practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at the Imbirikani Girls High School in Imbirikani, Kenya, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola - RTX2B0RF

WATCH: Mentoring for Kenya’s marginalized girls

Wednesday, December 21, 2016