Developing Economies

A glass of SABMiller's flagship brew, Castle Lager is seen at a bar in Cape Town, South Africa November 10, 2015. SABMiller Plc last week extended the deadline for rival Anheuser-Busch InBev to make a formal $100 billion-plus takeover offer to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11, in order to finalise shareholder support for the deal. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF20000053400

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: African and global FDI inflows weaken in 2017

Thursday, June 14, 2018

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Global Economy

Global Metro Monitor 2018

Max Bouchet, Sifan Liu, Joseph Parilla, and Nader Kabbani

June, 2018

Residents attend a rally by Ethiopia's newly elected prime minister Abiy Ahmed during his visit Ambo in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia April 11, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC172DC0DAF0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Ethiopia’s reform, Russia’s Africa ties, and South Africa’s contracting economy

Saturday, June 9, 2018

A child rests while illuminated by candle light during a scheduled blackout in South Africa

Future Development

Africa’s 3 deadly deficits: Education, electricity, and taxes

Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah

Friday, June 8, 2018

Reports

Pedestrians are reflected in a screen displaying stock market data in downtown Tokyo May 7, 2010. Asian stocks were hammered on Friday as mounting fears over Europe's debt crisis sparked a global market rout that sent safe-haven assets soaring and clobbered sterling. REUTERS/Michael Caronna (JAPAN - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) - GM1E65716PD01

Developing Economies

Rebalancing a lopsided global economy

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

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Developing Economies

Réévaluation des partenariats mondiaux de l’Afrique

Wenjie Chen and Roger Nord

Friday, April 27, 2018

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Developing Economies

Comment tirer parti du potentiel numérique de l’Afrique

Njuguna Ndung’u

Friday, April 27, 2018

Shipping containers

Developing Economies

April 2018 update to TIGER: The global recovery levels off as vulnerabilities rise

Karim Foda and Eswar Prasad

Sunday, April 15, 2018

(L-R) China's President Xi Jinping, Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa and Bahamas' Prime Minister Perry Christie walk after the opening ceremony of the 1st Ministerial Meeting of China-CELAC Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing January 8, 2015. Xi pledged on Thursday $250 billion in investment in Latin America over the next 10 years, as part of a drive to boost Beijing's influence in a region long dominated by the U.S. Leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC - a bloc of 33 countries in the region that excludes the United States and Canada - gathered in Beijing for the first time for a two-day forum on Thursday. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1EB180Y0Q01

China

Latin America in the new Asia-Pacific trade order

Antoni Estevadeordal

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Blog Posts

A man rides a bicycle along an empty road in Aninoasa, 330 km (202 miles) west of Bucharest July 31, 2013. If joining the European Union was supposed to lift Romania out of poverty, in Aninoasa, a town of 4,800 people in the mountainous Jiu Valley region, it has yet to work. Six years after Romania's accession to the EU, not only is Aninoasa still poor - it has also become the first town in Romania to file for insolvency. Picture taken July 31, 2013. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel (ROMANIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT POVERTY) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 21 OF 23 FOR PACKAGE 'ROMANIA'S BANKRUPT TOWN'. SEARCH 'ANINOASA' FOR ALL IMAGES - GM1E98V1AG501

Future Development

Romania: Thriving cities, rural poverty, and a trust deficit

Donato De Rosa and Yeon Soo Kim

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

A man hawks his goods at a motor park in the Obalende district of Lagos October 9, 2013. With between 15 million and 21 million people - the upper estimate is the official one, though no one really knows - and generating a third of GDP for Africa's second biggest economy, Lagos has become almost as alluring to yield-hungry investors as it is to the 4,000 or so economic migrants who turn up each day. But it faces a daily challenge just trying to keep up with the pace of population growth, much of it on the edge of water. Nigeria, already pushing 170 million people, will be home to 400 million by 2050, making it the world's fourth most populous country, according to the global Population Reference Bureau (PRB). Lagos will have roughly doubled in size by then, Fashola and demographers agree. Picture taken October 9, 2013. To match Insight LAGOS-MEGACITY/ REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E9AN0J5R01

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Informal employment in African cities

Friday, June 1, 2018

Egyptians shop at a vegetable market in Cairo, Egypt, October 11, 2017. Picture taken October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC13764F8900

Africa in focus

Point de vue prospectif sur l’Afrique: Le revenu minimum universel et les pays pétroliers en Afrique

Shanta Devarajan

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

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Events

Industry 4.0 in Africa: Helping or hindering?

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Agricultural development: Smart investing for global food security

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A new EIB bond product in support of the Global Goals: Building a sustainable financial system

8:45 AM - 10:40 AM EDT

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Related Books

Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States

By Mara Karlin

2017

Open for Business

By Richard Feinberg

2016

Peace Through Entrepreneurship

By Steven R. Koltai; With Matthew Muspratt

2016

Multimedia

A member of the Colombian civil defense pushes a woman on a wheelchair after she crosses from Venezuela over the Simon Bolivar international bridge.

Venezuela

Is anyone addressing Venezuela’s refugee crises?

Fred Dews and Dany Bahar

Friday, April 27, 2018

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Up Front

Regulating a Digital Economy: An Indian Perspective

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

African leaders pose for a group photograph as they meet to sign a free trade deal that would create a liberalized market for goods and services across the continent, in Kigali, Rwanda March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. - RC1CA93F2E10

China

China, the US, and Africa’s transforming trade environment

Witney Schneidman, Yun Sun, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

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More on Developing Economies

Senior Fellow and Brookings India Research Director Shamika Ravi speaks at a panel discussion on the new bankruptcy laws (IBC) reform that seeks to tackle the mountain of Rs 10 trillion of non-performing assets in the banking system.

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A general view of the traffic on a crowded road in Cairo October 26, 2010. Smog-ridden Cairo's gridlock shows investment in roads, railways and ports is failing to keep pace with economic growth, menacing public health and threatening economic asphyxiation. Around 12,000 deaths occur every year in Egypt because of road accidents, the highest rate in the world per head of population bar Eritrea and the Cook Islands, according to the World Health Organization's most recent report in 2009. The capital's congested roads come to a standstill daily as infrastructure fails to support population growth of 2 percent a year and as thousands of new cars hit the streets every year. Picture taken October 26, 2010. To match Feature EGYPT-BUSINESS/ REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - GM1E71R08F001

Egypt’s population: Boom then bust?

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

A general view shows houses surrounded by fields outside the village of Qalaalti, Azerbaijan, June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov - D1AETMNKFCAB

Is cotton the answer to Azerbaijan’s oil price woes?

Monday, May 21, 2018

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

Figures of the week: Private investment trends in sub-Saharan Africa

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Duncan Onyango, a game design developer at Planet Rackus works on MA3Racer, a 2D mobile game inside his studio in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 15, 2014. Industry analysts have long hailed the explosive growth of mobile telecoms in sub-Saharan Africa - 635 million subscribers by the end of 2014 climbing to 930 million by the end of 2019 according to a report by Ericsson. But size isn't everything. It is the quality of those mobile phone connections, subscriptions and surrounding infrastructure that is holding up Africa's nascent games development industry, not the quantity of handsets. The number of expensive smartphones that can run sophisticated games and applications is low, accounting for only 14 percent of African mobile connections by the end of 2014, says research group Ovum. Planet Rackus's first edition of MA3Racer, a 2D mobile game, had more than a million downloads on Nokia's Ovi platform, reflecting strong demand. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS) - GM1EA7F1HRG01

Figures of the week: The future of work in Africa

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Employees serve customers inside a mobile phone care centre operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - D1AETDLLWWAA

Africa’s alternative path to development

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Thursday, May 3, 2018