Global Economy and Development

Maasai tribe students at the Shompole school that is supported by AMREF. This school supports alternative rights of passage for young Maasai tribe girls, that would prevent them from going through the traditional female circumcision and keep them in school through secondary school. June 11, 2014 in Shompole, Kenya. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images)..

Engaging the custodians of tradition and culture

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Jamaica’s policy for the school reintegration of school-age mothers

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Giving girls wings to fly: Tools to empower adolescent girls in rural communities in India

Monday, November 6, 2017

A girl looks out of her classroom window as she starts her first day of school for six months since teachers went on strike over pay sparking a conflict which turned into a major social crisis in Oaxaca's capital November 16, 2006 REUTERS/Stringer (MEXICO) - GM1DTYPIVJAA

Understanding girls’ education in indigenous Maya communities in the Yucatán Peninsula

María Cristina Osorio Vázquez

Monday, November 6, 2017

Girls play a clapping game during a weekly education session about breast ironing and rape by survivor of breast ironing Julie Ndjessa at Ndjessa's family home in Douala, Cameroon, November 3, 2013. New government research shows that 'breast ironing,' where the breasts of young girls are flattened using a hot stone, has seen a 50 percent decline since it was first accidentally uncovered during a 2005 survey by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) on rape and incest in Cameroon. Picture taken November 3, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney (CAMEROON - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) - GM1EA1703F201

Translating competencies to empowered action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

November 6, 2017

A maize plant is seen among other dried maize at a field in Hoopstad, a maize-producing district in the Free State province, South Africa, January 13, 2016. South Africa suffered its driest year on record in 2015, the national weather service said on Thursday, as a drought that has threatened the vital maize crop and hit economic growth showed no sign of abating. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF20000094471

When will things change? Looking for signs of progress on ending rural hunger

Geoffrey Gertz, Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Lorenz Noe

Saturday, October 14, 2017

A man walks past an electronic board displaying share price movements in Tokyo September 30, 2008. Japan's Nikkei stock average fell nearly 5 percent on Tuesday to touch a three-year after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion financial bailout plan, fuelling fears about lasting damage to markets and the economy. Exporters and banks were particularly hard hit, as Tokyo followed the lead of the Dow Jones industrial average, which posted its largest point decline ever and its biggest daily percentage slide since the 1987 stock market crash. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN) - GM1E49U0V2U01

Economic risk and resilience in East Asia

Monday, October 9, 2017

People walk past an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai - RC169349E480

October 2017 Update to TIGER: A synchronized but sluggish recovery

Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Sunday, October 8, 2017

A Canadian flag flies outside the North Toronto Collegiate Institute, a high school run by the Toronto District School Board in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren - RC1A92EC9340

Who and what gets left behind? Assessing Canada’s domestic status on the Sustainable Development Goals

John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

A woman carries her belongings on a dirt road of the outskirts of the capital Bangui March 22, 2014. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: SOCIETY) - GM1EA3M1PU201

Global development trends and challenges

Homi Kharas and Andrew Rogerson

Monday, October 2, 2017