Global Economy and Development

An employee of Telkom Kenya looks at a display stand at the company's shop in Nairobi, Kenya, July 27, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Good news, Africa is creating jobs—but the narrative is complicated

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A mobile phone care centre operated by Safaricom in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

Africa in the news: Africa-Spain relations, technology opportunities in Kenya and South Africa, and attacks in Mozambique

Tamara White and Leo Holtz

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Young 1ove organizer working to adapt the Teaching at the Right Level education intervention during COVID-19

A year later: Reflections on learning, adapting, and scaling education interventions during COVID-19

Tendekai Mukoyi, Molly Curtiss Wyss, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Friday, April 2, 2021

Dustin, an asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras, holds his six-year-old son Jerrardo, 6, as they awake at sunrise next to others who took refuge near a baseball field after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on rafts, in La Joya, Texas, U.S., March 19, 2021. Emergency blankets were provided to the group of about 150 migrants from Central America by the U.S. Border Patrol agents. REUTERS/Adrees Latif TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

4 things the Biden administration should pay attention to with the border crisis

Elaine Denny, David Dow, Jose Ordoñez, Wayne Pitts, Diego Romero, Juan Tellez, Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Erik Wibbels, and Pamela Zabala

Friday, April 2, 2021

A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Ankara City Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan

For greater vaccine equity, first fix these misconceptions

Philip Schellekens

Friday, April 2, 2021

Loreto, Peru.- Peruvian entrepreneurs work developing products from the agro-industrial and aquaculture fishing sector in Loreto, Peru on September 3, 2020. The Peruvian economy plummeted 30.2% in the second quarter of the year, a figure that represents one of the greater falls of the GDP since there are historical records. This figure places the country among the most affected in economic terms in the world, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Peru (INE).

Funneling support to promising enterprises in developing countries

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Children draw on the sidewalk.

Infusing playful learning in cities: How to partner with communities for impact

Helen Shwe Hadani and Jennifer S. Vey

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Asylum-seeking mothers from Guatemala and Honduras carry their children after they crossed the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft, in Penitas, Texas, U.S., March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Climate, violence, and Honduran migration to the United States

Sarah Bermeo and David Leblang

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress attend a protest rally to the National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Figure of the week: Governance, citizen dissatisfaction, and levels of trust in Africa

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

we are open sign hanging on the entrance door of a small cafe

Are better managed firms more pandemic-resilient?

Arti Grover and Valerie Karplus

Wednesday, March 31, 2021