Global Economy and Development

Birds sit on electricity cables in Tyre, Lebanon July 18, 2020. Picture taken July 18, 2020. To match Special Report LEBANON-CRISIS/POWER REUTERS/Aziz Taher

How the Pan-Arab electricity market can promote regional cooperation and economic recovery

Paul Noumba Um and Waleed Alsuraih

Friday, February 19, 2021

Addis Ababa city, 14 July 2018, Ethiopia

How have the Washington Consensus reforms affected economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa?

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

Friday, February 19, 2021

A small child wearing a facemask is seen at a volunteer food drive in Mountain View, an informal settlement in Jamestown, located in the Cape Winelands District, on Saturday, May 29, 2020. It's estimated that most, if not all, of the households here had no income, due to unemployement during lockdown. Cape Winelands is one of the districts in the Western Cape that has been designated a hotspot area, in terms of people testing positive for COVID-19. When South Africa moves down to Stage 3 of the nationwide lockdown on June 1st, hotspots areas will remain under stricter regulation and surveillance, per the latest government announcements. Photo by Eva-Lotta Jansson/RealTime Images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa.

Figures of the week: Addressing COVID-19’s disruption to African development progress

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Friday, February 19, 2021

Police patrol inside the Government Science school in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria December 13, 2020. Picture taken December 13, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Rising insecurity in northwest Nigeria: Terrorism thinly disguised as banditry

Oluwole Ojewale

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Piggy bank in an ocean of coins with gathering storm clouds in the background.

COVID-19’s ‘thundering’ effect on taxes

Rabah Arezki and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Empty swings on a beach in Mauritius

Threats to job creation: Tourism and COVID-19

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Children enjoy learning and playing together.

Playful learning and 21st-century skills line the path to education reform: Our responses to your questions

Elias Blinkoff, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Helen Shwe Hadani, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

An Ethiopian refugee couple who fled Tigray region, build a makeshift shelter within the Um-Rakoba camp in Al-Qadarif state, on the border in Sudan December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Wanted: Economic principles for post-conflict recovery

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

An employee dismantles old solar panels, for e-waste processing, at E-Terra Matter Recovery and Recycling Facility in Festac, Lagos, Nigeria June 19, 2020. Picture taken June 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Building African economies back, better and stronger than before

Akinwumi A. Adesina

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

A vendor sells cassava flour at a traditional market in Bariga district, in Lagos, Nigeria January 15, 2021. Picture taken January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Africa in the news: African debt, rising food prices, and vaccine updates

Christina Golubski and Leo Holtz

Saturday, February 13, 2021