Global Economy and Development

A female teacher and female students gather around a desk.

International Women’s Day reflections on leading for an equal future in a COVID-19 world

Christina Kwauk and Emiliana Vegas

Friday, March 5, 2021

A worker walks past solar panels at Centragrid power plant in Nyabira, Zimbabwe, June 22, 2020. Picture taken June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Improving infrastructure in Africa: Creating long-term resilience through investment

Alain Ebobissé

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Jihan Abass, founder and CEO of Griffin Insurance, holds her phone as she displays an insurance product under Griffin Motor app as they prepare to release their flagship digital-only car insurance company, in Nairobi, Kenya January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia

Figures of the week: African insurance market poised for growth

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Michael Otieno, a pharmacist, dispenses anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at the Mater Hospital in Kenya's capital Nairobi

Reducing Kenya’s health system dependence on donors

Kaci Kennedy McDade, Kenneth Munge, Gilbert Kokwaro, and Osondu Ogbuoji

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Telkom Kenya CEO Mugo Kibati uses his cell phone to test the Loon technology internet via video call as Alphabet Inc begins offering the world's first commercial high-speed internet using balloons to villagers in Radad, Baringo County, Kenya July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia

Shared failure, shared success: Africa’s economic recovery must be structural

Lerang Selolwane

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

A girl looks at a globe.

The road to a net-zero economy requires building girls’ green skills for green jobs

Christina Kwauk

Monday, March 1, 2021

Cape Town, South Africa - August 2020: Car filling up gas at gas station in South Africa. Petrol station during fuel increase. Close up of Gas Pump. African Petrol Station.

Recipe for a green recovery: Carbon taxes

Gunnar Köhlin, Ira Dorband, Jan Christoph Steckel, and Thomas Sterner

Monday, March 1, 2021

Sudanese pounds

Africa in the news: Sudan, COVID-19 vaccine, and political updates

Chris Heitzig and Leo Holtz

Saturday, February 27, 2021

A teller counts U.S. notes at the Dahabshill money transfer office in capital Mogadishu February 16, 2015. Somalia's prime minister last week urged the U.S. government and U.S. banks to support money transfer firms that offer a lifeline for many in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation. About 40 percent of all Somali families rely on remittances from another country, and the estimated annual total of $1.3 billion is more than all foreign aid and investment in Somalia combined. Funds sent back home to Somalia are crucial for many families and businesses in a country that lacks a proper financial system due to the years of fighting. REUTERS/Omar Faruk (SOMALIA - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)

Modeling remittances flows with web scraping

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma and Max Thomasberger

Friday, February 26, 2021

Venezuelan migrants react when members of the Bolivarian National Guard (not pictured) try to stop them on their way to the border between Venezuela and Colombia, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in San Cristobal, Venezuela October 12, 2020. Picture taken October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez

Venezuelan refugees and their receiving communities need funding, not sympathy

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley

Friday, February 26, 2021