Global Economy and Development

Childen sit on the ground in a outdoor school during a lesson in Santiniketan village in this undated handout photograph. In Santiniketan village in West Bengal -- the home of Nobel literature prize winner Rabindranath Tagore -- a voluntary initiative helping local Kora and Santhali tribal children to read and write Bengali is now so popular it needs a second building. To match Reuters Life! INDIA- / REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)

India’s National Education Policy 2020: A reformist step forward?

Friday, October 2, 2020

Helsinki cityscape with Helsinki Cathedral, Finland

A conversation with Jan Vapaavuori, mayor of Helsinki

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet

Thursday, October 1, 2020

A Malawian trader counts money as he sells maize near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016. Floods and an El Nino-triggered drought have hit the staple maize crop, exposing the fragility of Malawi's progress, which was partly rooted in a fertiliser grant for small-scale farmers that the government, now starved of donor funds, can ill afford. Picture taken February 1, 2016. To match Insight AFRICA-DROUGHT/MALAWI. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Figures of the week: Financial inclusion of farmers in Africa

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Nigerian pupils work on computers at the LEA primary school in Abuja in this May 30, 2007 picture. The school is a pilot site for the "One laptop per child" project, a non profit organisation aimed at providing children in the world with a means to express their potential. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA)

DRAWing away from the curriculum of the past

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Eldoret,Uasin gishu/Kenya 25 January 2018: Unidentified man with a push cart walking next to a truck.

Crisis? What crisis? COVID-19 and the unexpected recovery of regional trade in East Africa

Andrew Mold and Anthony Mveyange

Monday, September 28, 2020

Cars parked along a cobblestone street

The end of the car as we know it: What COVID-19 means to mobility in Europe

Wolfgang Fengler

Monday, September 28, 2020

Somalia's Supreme Court Chairman Baashe Yusuf Ahmed swears in new prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble in front of Somali parliament members in Mogadishu, Somalia September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Africa in the news: Zambia’s debt, Kenya’s parliament and trade, and politics in the Horn of Africa

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Website of The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

What the FinCEN leaks reveal about the ongoing war on dirty money

Friday, September 25, 2020

Cargo ship at the Port of Mombasa in Kenya

US-Africa trade relations: Why is AGOA better than a bilateral free trade agreement?

Gracelin Baskaran

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Vocational training in Johannesburg, South Africa

Figure of the week: Supply-side interventions alone cannot solve Africa’s missing jobs problem

Thursday, September 24, 2020