Global Economy and Development

Illustration of the continent of Africa made of gold numbers

Debt sustainability and financing for development: A key post-COVID challenge

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

United States Capitol Building in Washington DC USA

The quiet revolution: What Congress should know about foreign assistance today

Kristin M. Lord and Ann Mei Chang

Monday, February 8, 2021

Blister packs of antibiotic capsules

Preventing the next pandemic: Addressing antibiotic resistance

Patricia Geli and Otto Cars

Monday, February 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria September 18, 2020. Picture taken September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

Africa in the news: Nigerian oil, COVID-19, and Uganda updates

Christina Golubski and Leo Holtz

Saturday, February 6, 2021

A man pushes a hand-cart past closed shops following protests in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Maheder Haileselassie TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Did Africa turn a corner in 2020 or did it just dodge a bullet?

Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah

Friday, February 5, 2021

Solar panels with high rise buildings in the distance

Secular stagnation, climate action, and the natural rate of interest

Martin Raiser and Sebastian Eckardt

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Ifeanyi Ochonogor, chief executive officer of E-Terra Matter Recovery and Recycling Facility, discusses with an employee as they operate a cable shredder machine for e-waste processing, at their facility in Festac, Lagos, Nigeria June 19, 2020. Picture taken June 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Long-term strategies for an African recovery from COVID-19: A CEO’s perspective

Ashish J. Thakkar

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Victoria Kigbu works on her farm, in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Abuja, Nigeria June 10, 2020. Picture taken June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Figures of the week: Household participation in agriculture on the rise since the outbreak of COVID-19

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

A doctor sticks the Sanfu Paste, a traditional Chinese medicine treatment in the hottest days of summer, on a boy at a hospital in Hefei city, east China's Anhui province, 17 July 2018.Sanfu Paste, also known as dog-days paste, is a traditional Chinese medicine treatment. During the treatment, patients will be stuck with the Chinese medicine contained in the paste on acupoints during the dog days, the hottest and most sultry days of summer. This treatment is regarded to be able to cure such chronic diseases like asthma. Monday is the first day of dog days and hospitals are crammed with citizens for the Sanfu Paste.No Use China. No Use France.

Getting to universal health coverage in China and Vietnam

Tra Tran, Shenglan Tang, and Wenhui Mao

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

A two-year-old HIV-positive girl, who is under treatment, goes through a routine medical check-up at a clinic in Ratodero, Pakistan May 24, 2019. Picture taken May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

How health aid can reach the world’s poorest people

Cordelia Kenney, Kaci Kennedy McDade, Wenhui Mao, and Osondu Ogbuoji

Tuesday, February 2, 2021