Global Economy and Development

Mount Elgon, Uganda, Africa - February 15, 2020: Guides and porters assist tourists climbing Mount Elgon, a tourist attraction for hikers, climbers and bird watchers visiting East Africa.

Leveraging IWOSS and soft skills to address slow structural transformation and youth unemployment in Uganda

Madina M. Guloba and Medard Kakuru

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

KABALAGALA, UGANDA - APRIL 13, 2017: Tank Hill Road This is the outdoor area of the Paradiso restaurant on Tank Hill Road in Kabalagala. Kabalagala is a small town in the Kampala area of Uganda.

The impact of COVID-19 on industries without smokestacks in Uganda

Madina M. Guloba, Medard Kakuru, and Sarah N. Ssewanyana

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Murchison Falls national park / Uganda - February 20 2020: Ferry crossing the Nile river to bring the safari tourists to the other side.

Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A Uganda case study

Madina M. Guloba, Medard Kakuru, Sarah N. Ssewanyana, and Jakob Rauschendorfer

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Afghan girls carry wheat as they work on a wheat field in outskirts of Jalalabad province, May 15, 2014. REUTERS/ Parwiz (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY)

The power of technical and vocational skills: Increasing girls’ participation in formal agriculture education in Afghanistan

Nangyalai Attal

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Silhouette of a woman in front of a fence and American flag

Addressing America’s crisis of despair and economic recovery

Friday, July 30, 2021

Solidifying the DFC-USAID relationship

Eric Postel and Anthony F. Pipa

Friday, July 30, 2021

Map of West Africa

Is West Africa ready for a single currency?

Aloysius Uche Ordu, Ali Zafar, and Jan Muench

Friday, July 30, 2021

Workers sort roses on the packing line while wearing protective equipment to help fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Maridadi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, July 20, 2020. Picture taken July 20, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Unlocking constraints to industries without smokestacks to catalyze job creation for youth in Kenya

Adan Shibia, Eldah Onsomu, and Boaz Munga

Thursday, July 29, 2021

--FILE--A male Chinese teacher gives a lesson to his students in a classroom at a junior high school in Shiziyuan town, Shenxian county, Liaocheng city, east China's Shandong province, 13 January 2015.Worried that a shortage of male teachers has produced a generation of timid, self-centred and effeminate boys, educators in China are working to reinforce traditional gender roles and values in the classroom. In Zhengzhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yellow River, schools have asked boys to sign petitions pledging to act like "real men". In Shanghai, principals are trying boys-only classes, with courses like martial arts, computer repair and physics. In Hangzhou, in eastern China, educators have started a summer camp called "West Point Boys", complete with taekwon-do classes and the motto: "We bring out the men in boys." Education officials across China are aggressively recruiting male teachers, as the domestic news media warns of a need to "salvage masculinity in schools".No Use China. No Use France.

How teacher expectations empower student learning

Niharika Gupta and Sameer Sampat

Thursday, July 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Cranes and containers seen at APM Terminals at the gateway port in Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria July 30, 2019. Picture taken July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

Washington Consensus reforms and lessons for economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa

Belinda Archibong, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Thursday, July 29, 2021