Developing Economies

Visitors walk along a beach in Libreville, Gabon, February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RTX32DYG

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Tourism and structural transformation in Africa

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Workers of Leoni industries assemble electric parts for vehicles to be exported to Brazil in San Lorenzo, Paraguay December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno - RTS1084K

Order from Chaos

Global value chains provide new opportunities to developing countries

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

India’s Multilateral Trade Diplomacy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

A truck drives past container boxes at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China, February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song - RTSYG5J

India

TPPs for success: Here is how India can use this gamechanger agreement

Harsha Vardhana Singh

Monday, July 17, 2017

Reports

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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

Kidane Mihret church is seen in Eritrea's capital Asmara, February 19, 2016. Eritrea's capital city boasts one of the world's finest collections of early 20th century architecture, which the authorities want declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When Italy's colonial experiment in Eritrea ended in 1941, it left behind an array of Rationalist, Futurist, Art Deco and other styles of Modernism in Asmara, a city they nicknamed "La Piccola Roma" or "Little Rome". REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - RTSA0H0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: DRC election delay, Huawei-WorldRemit partnership, and new UNESCO World Heritage African landmarks

Friday, July 14, 2017

Traditional ruler Prince Ozo Onna joins supporters of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu in a rally, as he is expected to appear at a magistrate court in Abuja, Nigeria December 1, 2015. Kanu - an activist who divides his time between the UK and Nigeria, spreading his ethos on social media and Radio Biafra - was arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy and belonging to an illegal society. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RTX1WMQH

Africa in focus

Separatist agitations in Nigeria: Causes and trajectories

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

A worker carries wood at a construction site in central Harare, Zimbabwe May 26,2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo - RTX37RPH

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Trends in Chinese investments in Africa

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

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Events

Trade backlash and the World Trade Organization

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Macroeconomic developments and prospects in low-income developing countries

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Brookings-G24 Roundtable on A New Global Agenda: Implications for the Role of the World Bank

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

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Experts

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

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

A U.S. Army Marines helicopter is loaded with goods from U.S.relief organization U.S. Aid to be deployed to survivors of the Super Typhoon Haiyan at Tacloban airport November 17, 2013. The Philippine and U.S. Air Forces are flying rice, clothes and drinking water into remote areas of the central Philippines, which are unreachable by vehicles. A massive relief effort is finally kicking into gear, nine days after one of the most powerful typhoons on record wreaked havoc across the impoverished area in the central Philippines with monster winds and a deadly storm surge of sea water. Philippine authorities and international aid agencies face a mounting humanitarian crisis, with the number of people displaced by the catastrophe estimated at 4 million, up from 900,000 late last week. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT MILITARY) - RTX15GU3

Unpacked

Myths about U.S. foreign aid

Friday, April 7, 2017

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More on Developing Economies

Heads of states and governments pose for a group photo during the opening ceremony of the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Governments in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RTS19KL4

Africa in the news: AU summit focuses on youth, South Africa debates Reserve Bank, and Zambian president announces state of emergency

Friday, July 7, 2017

FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen underground South Africa's Gold Fields South Deep mine in Westonaria, 45 kilometres south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD PACKAGE Ð SEARCH BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD MARCH 13 FOR ALL IMAGES - RTX30QGU

Figure of the week: Extractive resource governance in Africa

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Passengers who arrived in train launched to operate on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and financed by Chinese government are seen outside the Nairobi Terminus in the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX38H4E

China and the East Africa railways: Beyond full industry chain export

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Figure of the week: Women, business, and the law—How countries’ business regulations differ for men and women

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

A worker looks on at a construction site in Sandton, north of Johannesburg

In defense of the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

A boy fries cassava grains in a tray on a locally made firewood stove in Ikarama village on the outskirts of the Bayelsa state capital, Yenagoa, in Nigeria's delta region October 8, 2015. Tensions are building in the swampland of the Niger Delta as an amnesty that aimed to bring stability to Nigeria's volatile southern region is due to expire at the end of the year. While the region's towns and cities are mostly calm, local residents say kidnappings and armed robberies are on the increase in the mangrove swamps, where most oil wells are located. Former military ruler and Muslim northerner President Muhammadu Buhari said in his inauguration speech in May that he might "streamline" the amnesty, implemented in 2009 by his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian like most of the Delta population. The deal aimed to pacify militants fighting for a greater share of oil revenues in Africa's biggest crude producer. At risk are payouts worth $300 million a year to 30,000 youths, money designed to discourage them from blowing up pipelines or kidnapping oil workers in a region where basic services are almost non-existent. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye PICTURE 9 OF 24 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "TENSIONS IN THE NIGER DELTA". SEARCH " DELTA TENSION" FOR ALL IMAGES. - RTS4ECU

New finance for old (technology) problems? Saving the planet with better cook stoves

Lauren Masatsugu and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Thursday, June 22, 2017