Developing Economies

Cote d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara (L) is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Joe Penney - RC15F4B1A6F0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: UNGA updates, cocoa export challenges, and Kenya’s full Supreme Court ruling

Dhruv Gandhi

Friday, September 22, 2017

Women work in Amingos fibre hair factory in Ikeja district in Lagos, December 1, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye(NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1E7C203TF01

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Africa and the Global Human Capital Index

Mariama Sow

Friday, September 22, 2017

Developing Economies

US development assistance under challenge

George Ingram and Homi Kharas

Thursday, September 21, 2017

A boy receives polio vaccine drops by anti-polio vaccination workers along a street in Quetta, Pakistan January 2, 2017. REUTERS/ Naseer Ahmed - RC120DF331E0

Future Development

Not your parents’ foreign aid: The shift from power to proximity and poverty

Sarah Bermeo

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Reports

Developing Economies

TPP and India: Lessons for Future Gains

Harsha Vardhana Singh

Friday, July 14, 2017

Tulio Medina (C) and Jennifer Vivas (centre R), parents of Eliannys Vivas, who died from diphtheria, pose for a photo with two of their children at the front porch of their home in Pariaguan, Venezuela January 26, 2017. Picture taken January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RTX30FRR

Developing Economies

Is a growing middle class good for the poor? Social policy in a time of globalization

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX2Z06Y

Developing Economies

April 2017 Update to TIGER: Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery

Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Skills for a Changing World - Philippines

Developing Economies

Skills for a changing world: National perspectives and the global movement

Esther Care, Helyn Kim, Kate Anderson, and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

A farmer harvests wheat on Qalyub farm in the El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt May 1, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RTX2HOOW

Developing Economies

Scaling up the impact of development interventions: Lessons from a review of UNDP country programs

Miliça Begovic, Johannes F. Linn, and Rastislav Vrbensky

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Blog Posts

Kenyan workers prepare clothes for export at the Alltex export processing zone (EPZ) factory in Athi River, near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, July 31, 2009. Kenya's exports to the United States rose 8 percent to 20.6 billion shillings ($268 million) in 2008, largely due to U.S. legislation to promote African trade, Kenya's trade minister Amos Kimunya said. The U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has granted duty-free access for many sub-Saharan African nations' products since 2000. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E57V1PAB01

Africa in focus

Post-AGOA: Moving to a reciprocal US-Africa trade arrangement

Witney Schneidman and Moyombuya Ngubula

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Construction workers direct a crane at the Radisson hotel site in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, September 12, 2015. From Abidjan’s packed airport arrivals hall to the buildings mushrooming across the capital, Ivory Coast is booming, a rare African bright spot as the world’s biggest cocoa producer bounces back from a 2011 civil war. Buyers of luxury apartments include Ivorians living overseas, while promoters from Morocco, Turkey and China are attracted by tax breaks. Elections - the source of national unrest four years ago - are due in a month but there is no let-up in investment given expectations of an easy victory for incumbent Alassane Ouattara. The government predicts 9.6 percent growth this year, making the former French colony the standout performer on a continent hammered by a slump in commodity prices, capital outflows and tumbling currencies. REUTERS/Joe PenneyPICTURE 14 OF 33 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "IVORY COAST IS BOOMING". SEARCH "BOOMING PENNEY" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000219116

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: China’s rebalancing and African growth

Amy Copley

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Opposition supporters walk along the street during the protest calling for the immediate resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe in Lome, Togo, September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer - RC19F77FC770

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: South Africa and Nigeria exit recession, Kenya prepares for election re-run, and Togo and Cameroon protest

Amy Copley

Friday, September 8, 2017

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Events

2017

Jul

Past Event

A conversation with the Young African Leaders Initiative’s Mandela Washington Fellows

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

India’s Multilateral Trade Diplomacy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

Trade backlash and the World Trade Organization

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Washington, DC

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

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Multimedia

A view of the Yaba district in Lagos June 25, 2015. At first glance, Yaba is like many other parts of Nigeria's sprawling commercial capital: a cacophony of car horns and shouting street vendors, mingling with exhaust fumes and the occasional stench of sewage. But in between the run-down buildings in this seemingly inauspicious part of Lagos, a city of around 21 million, tech start-ups are taking root and creating a buzz that is drawing international venture capitalists and more established digital firms. Picture taken June 25, 2015. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX1M6LS

Up Front

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development hacks, and the power of digital record-keeping

Merrell Tuck-Primdahl

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Schoolgirls queue up to receive from authorities at government school in Mumbai

Education Plus Development

WATCH: What are the key ingredients to scaling quality learning?

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Storm clouds hover as a cyclist rides past a field of maize after late rains near Malawi's capital Lilongwe, February 1, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs.About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX24Z7D

Africa in focus

Le tonnerre n’est pas toujours suivi de la pluie : Maintenir le progrès vers la réalisation de la vision pour l’Afrique

Amadou Sy, Christina Golubski, and Amy Copley

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

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