Global Economy and Development

French President Emmanuel Macron waits for guests at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, June 6, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer - RTX398PG

Can Macron redraw the political map?

Kemal Derviş and Caroline Conroy

06/07/2017

A Chinese sailor adjusts the ship's access ladder while it is loaded with soybeans at Port of Santos in Santos May 19, 2015. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang came to the rescue of Brazil's slumping economy on Tuesday with trade, finance and investment deals worth tens of billions of dollars in energy, mining, aviation and the upgrade of dilapidated infrastructure. The injection of capital from China could not come at a better time for Brazil, which is sliding into recession following the end of a commodity boom last decade that was fueled by voracious Chinese demand for its main exports, iron ore and soybeans. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker - RTX1DOV8

Latin America’s policy options for times of protectionism

The Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues (CLAAF)

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Security officers stand guard outside the International Monetary Fund headquarters building during the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RTS13DI7

The limits of economic optimism

Monday, April 24, 2017

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen prepares to speak before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RTSYMI5

Trump’s unsurprising support for Yellen

Douglas A. Rediker

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Liberian children hold Chinese flags before the arrival of China's President Hu Jintao in Monrovia February 1, 2007. Thousands of cheering Liberians lined the streets of the capital Monrovia on Thursday to greet Hu, hoping for desperately needed investment for their war-scarred nation. REUTERS/Christopher Herwig (LIBERIA) - RTR1LVK9

China expands investments across Africa

Sunday, April 16, 2017

A woman walks past electronic board showing stock prices and Japanese Yen's exchange rate outside a brokerage at a business district in Tokyo, Japan, January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RTSWVT1

This recovery is for real, but can it last?

Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Sunday, April 16, 2017

A construction worker erects a new bridge along the Nairobi-Thika highway project, under construction near Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 23, 2011. The road, which is being built by China Wuyi, Sinohydro and Shengeli Engineering Construction group, is funded by the Kenyan and Chinese government and the African Development Bank (AFDB). The project will cost 28 billion Kenyan shillings ($330million), according to the Chinese company. AfDB has cut the expected economic growth rate for Kenya in 2011 to 3.5-4.5 percent from an earlier forecast of 4.5-5 percent due to high inflation and a volatile exchange rate, the bank's country economist for Kenya said on Friday. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR2RQ1H

China’s export of capital offers new opportunities for Africa

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Somali child

How successful were the millennium development goals?

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Thursday, March 30, 2017

People use ATM machines at a Novo Banco branch in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante - RTX2E0LM

Getting basic income right

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Workers unload humanitarian aid from France at an airport in Arbil

The balancing act

Tuesday, March 21, 2017